The main theme of this
sermon byis that all sinners will be judged by a God who will not hesitate to cast
them into the depths of hell, to endure a more painful and dreadful eternity than they can
possibly imagine, if they do not repent of their sins now, before it is too late.
He argues, for example, that
There is nothing that keeps
wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
Edwards argues that God certainly has the power to cast us into
hell, or the will to allow us to "slide" there like people walking on slippery ground.
He argues, further, that we deserve to go to hellthat we are, in fact, already damned to hell.
God is already angry with us, Edwards says, and it is not because he is unmindful of us that we
do not now go to hell. The devil is ready and awaits us whenever God gives the go-ahead. The
fact that one might feel no present and immediate danger does not mean one is safe. Nothing but
accepting Christ can prevent a wicked person from going to hell.
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