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Slippery places!
The following is from Edwards' sermon,
"Natural Men In A Dreadful Condition"
"Surely you did set them in slippery places;
you cast them down into destruction. How are
they brought into desolation as in a moment."
Natural men are in Scripture compared to those
that walk in slippery places. They know not
when
their feet will slip. They are continually in danger.
Natural men are in danger of going to hell every day.
They are in danger of dropping into hell before
tomorrow morning. They have nothing to depend
on, to keep them out of hell one day, or one night.
They know not what a day may bring forth. God has
not promised to spare them one day; and he is
angry with them every day. The black clouds, that
are full of the thunder of God's wrath, hang over
their heads every day, and they know not how
soon the thunder will break forth upon their heads.
Natural men hang over the pit of hell, as it were, by
a thread, that has a moth continually gnawing it.
They know not when it will snap in twain, and let
them drop. They are in the utmost uncertainty.
They are not secure one moment. A natural man
never goes to sleep, but that he is in danger of
waking in hell. Experience abundantly teaches the
matter to be so. It shows, by millions of instances,
that man is not certain of life one day. And how
common a thing is it for death to come suddenly
and unexpectedly! And thousands, beyond all
reasonable question, are going to hell every day,
and death comes upon them unexpectedly.
It is a dreadful condition that natural people are in
upon this account. No wise person would be in
their condition for a quarter of an hour for the whole
world, because such is the danger that they will drop
into hell before that quarter of an hour is expired.
"Surely you did set them in slippery places;
you cast them down into destruction. How are
they brought into desolation as in a moment."
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