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and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their
own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in any
Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any security to
them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that
preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will, and
uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God. 

Application The use of this awful subject may be for awakening
unconverted persons in this congregation. This that you have heard is
the case of every one of you that are out of Christ. -- That world of
misery, that take of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you.
There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God;
there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand
upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and
hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that
holds you up. You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are
kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God in it; but look at
other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care
of your own life, and the means you use for your own preservation. But
indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they
would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold
up a person that is suspended in it. 

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend
downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should
let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge
into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own