 The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 501889Full view - About this book
 | Philip Schaff - Theology - 1893 - 638 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - Apologetics - 1893 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | Popular culture - 1932 - 1028 pages
...Connecticut, was published and sold widely under the title Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: — The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds...worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with... | |
 | Samuel Harris - God - 1896 - 592 pages
...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.''... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...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 as one holds...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... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 508 pages
...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 as one holds...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... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...hell, much as one the Hands of holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors God." you and is dreadfully provoked ; his wrath towards...have you in his sight ; you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes, as the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours. This seems very far... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 546 pages
...mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. The God that holds you over the pit of hell — much as one...abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath toward you burns like fire ; He looks upon you as being worthy of nothing else but to be cast into... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Christianity - 1899 - 310 pages
...words to his people as these — I quote from no less an authority than Jonathan Edwards, — "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds...or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you. It is nothing but His Hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment ; it is to be ascribed... | |
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