...hands of an ansrry God " ? " The God that o «/ holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over...the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked." Apart from the metaphor, is this to be regarded as orthodox teaching or not ? Is this the God who has...

...the pit of hell," runs an oftquoted passage from this powerful denunciation of the wrath to come, " much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent...

...even than usually: "Sinners shall slide in due time," is the text. Here is one very famous sentence : "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some other loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as...

...of hell," runs an oftquoted passage from this powerful denunciation of the wrath to come, " much an one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent...

...preached at Enfield, Connecticut, in 1741. This sermon of imprecation ends thus : " God holds them over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire. They are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than a venomous serpent in ours. It will not...

...roasting-theory of hell, and made it as hot as Dante's " Inferno." He describes God as holding the damned " over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire." f He repeatedly avows his belief that the great majority of mankind, including the whole heathen world,...

...Affections. of God can be shown in a brief quotation, the wm. inj u ? • u • s , j.- the Freedom °f " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. ... If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case that he...

...into tr* i , f • i • j; • the freedom of of God can be shown in a brief quotation, the Will. " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. ... If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case that he...

...impossible. When a sinner under the renewing influence of sinners still living he says, "The God who holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...abhors you and is dreadfully provoked ; his wrath toward you burns like fire ; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire.''...

...unendurable vividness. Did he never remember, when assuring his shuddering congregation that God held them " over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire," how in his fresh boyhood he had been "very conversant with spiders," loving to watch the "wondrous...