"There is nothing
that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of
God."
Most of the sermon's text consists of ten
"considerations":
1. God may cast wicked men into hell at any given
moment.
2. The Wicked deserve to be cast into
hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at any
moment.
3. The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's
condemnation to Hell.
4. The Wicked, on earth - at this very
moment - suffer a sample of the torments of Hell. The Wicked must not think,
simply because they are not physically in Hell, that God (in Whose hand the
Wicked now reside) is not - at this very moment - as angry with them as He is with those
miserable creatures He is now tormenting
in hell, and who - at this very moment - do feel and bear the fierceness of His
wrath.
5. At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready to
fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own.
6. If it were not for God's restraints,
there are, in the souls of wicked men, hellish principles reigning which,
presently, would kindle and flame out into hellfire.
7. Simply because there are not visible
means of death before them at any given moment, the Wicked should not feel
secure.
8. Simply because it is natural to care
for oneself or to think that others may care for them, men should not think
themselves safe from God's wrath.
9. All that wicked men may do to save
themselves from Hell's pains shall afford them nothing if they continue to
reject Christ.
10. God has never promised to save us
from Hell, except for those contained in Christ through
the covenant of Grace.
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