Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Edition |
| Edwards, Jonathon |
| Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he
shall escape it; he depends upon himself for his won security; he flatters
himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends
to do. Every one lays out matters in his own mind how he shall avoid
damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and
that his schemes will not fail. ... But the foolish children of men
miserably delude themselves in their own schemes, and in confidence of
their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow. The
greater part of those who heretofore have lived under the same means of
grace, and are now dead, are undoubtedly gone to hell. So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked. |