..."Sinners in the hand of an angry God?" "The God that holds you over the pit of hell much in the same way as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire." 28. Surely if you hold it, speak it out, but if you do not, then repudiate it. Even Shakespeare says...

...their sense of sin. It is hard to forgive Jonathan Edwards when one reads in his famous Enfield sermon: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; . . . you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes, as the most hateful and venomous serpent...

...sense of sin. It is hard to forgive Jonathan Edwards when one reads in his famous Enfield sermon: " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; . . . you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes, as the most hateful and venomous serpent...

...disposed to accept the dogma, he presented that dogma in a series of pictures like the following: . The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathesome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns...

...*"The Nineteenth Century" by R. Mackenzie. that 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." Because man was merciless he imagined that God was also. He has forgotten the meaning of mercy. But...

...of the universe and damned the character of God. The latter he described as holding the souls of men "over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire." It is useless to cry in supplication to such a Deity, he continues, for "though he will know that you...

...already disposed to accept the dogma, he presented that dogma in a series of pictures like the following: The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathesome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns...

...those things on which they depended for peace and safety were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. cinders toward you bums like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire;...

...more pity than a fiend, holding those who had striven for righteousness, as well as the abandoned, "over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire" and rejoicing, in a manner which would shock the most degenerate human criminal, over the consequences...

...obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being drunk with your blood." Then the excruciation: "The God .that holds you over the pit of hell, much...over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. "You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment...