The research concluded that “mainstream religion and mainstream science are neither attacking one another nor perceiving a conflict.” Moreover, they be aware that this conciliatory view is shared by most main science organizations such as the American Affiliation for the Development of Science (AAAS). However you might have reformed your life in lots of things, and will have had religious affections, and should keep up a type of religion in your families and closets, and within the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this second swallowed up in everlasting destruction. You probably aren’t smart of this; you find you’re kept out of hell, but don’t see the hand of God in it; however have a look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your personal life, and the means you utilize for your individual preservation. 9. All wicked men’s pains and contrivance which they use to flee hell, while they proceed to reject Christ, and so stay wicked men, do not safe them from hell one moment. You may have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and but it is nothing however his hand that holds you from falling into the fireplace each second.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, a lot as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath in direction of you burns like fire; he appears to be like upon you as worthy of nothing else, however to be forged into the fire; he’s of purer eyes than to bear to have you ever in his sight; you are ten thousand instances extra abominable in his eyes, than probably the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. There are the black clouds of God’s wrath now hanging instantly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder; and have been it not for the restraining hand of God, it would instantly burst forth upon you. God’s creatures are good, and were made for men to serve God with, and do not willingly subserve to every other goal, and groan when they are abused to purposes so instantly contrary to their nature and finish. There may be laid within the very nature of carnal men, a basis for the torments of hell. These ideas are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they’d flame out after the identical method as the same corruptions, the identical enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them.

In order that, thus it’s that pure males are held within the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they’ve deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great in direction of them as to people who are literally suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they’ve performed nothing within the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God within the least sure by any promise to carry them up one second; the devil is ready for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their very own hearts is struggling to break out: and so they haven’t any interest in any Mediator, there aren’t any means within attain that can be any security to them. There’s the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell’s large gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to face upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there’s nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the facility and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.

Briefly, they don’t have any refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that preserves them every second is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God. All the signifies that there are of sinners going out of the world, are so in God’s hands, and so universally and completely subject to his power and willpower, that it doesn’t depend at all the much less on the mere will of God, whether or not sinners shall at any moment go to hell, than if means were never made use of, or in any respect involved within the case. God has so many alternative unsearchable methods of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that there is nothing to make it seem, that God had need to be on the expense of a miracle, or go out of the extraordinary course of his providence, to destroy any wicked man, at any second. Yea, there may be nothing else that’s to be given as a motive why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.