 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
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 670 pages
...or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being drunk with your blood." l " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; ... he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 356 pages
...holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; ... he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful, venomous serpent... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1879 - 728 pages
...things that they depended on for peace and safety were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...wrath towards you burns like fire ; he looks upon yon as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire ; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1902 - 622 pages
...claszicus which more perhaps than any other passage represents Edwards to the popular mind : — " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors yon, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
...name of an all-merciful God. The following passage is a specimen of his pulpit oratory : — " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...name of an all-merciful God. The following passage is a specimen of his pulpit oratory : — " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand... | |
 | John Doughty - Future life - 1882 - 214 pages
...gave birth to that terrible exclamation of Jonathan Edwards addressed to the unconverted, " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you." And yet the extreme literalists are very inconsistent. In the case of this doctrine of the eternal burnings... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent... | |
 | 1883 - 658 pages
...writers of his time, and the following is a specimen of what he taught as gospel truth : — " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. . . . You are ten thousand... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...the celebrated passage from that celebrated sermon, Sinners in the Hands *f an Angry God: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...else but to be cast into the fire ; he is of purer 1 " Jonathan Edwards," Fraser's Magazine, Vol. LXXXVIII. p. 542. 2 Sketches of the Radical Club, p.... | |
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