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. God is dreadfully provoked; His anger is as great toward them as toward those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of His wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger. Neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up one moment. The devil is waiting for them; hell is gaping for them;