Sinners in the Hands – figurative language – Flashcards
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We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth;
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to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs on
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miserable creatures
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the fierceness of his wrath.
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The wrath of God burns against them,
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tormented in hell
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their damnation does not slumber;
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the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot,
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the flames do now rage and glow.
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The glittering sword is whet, and held over them,
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and the pit hath opened its mouth under them ...
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen.
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The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday;
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wickedness
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hell is gaping for them,
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the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up;
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The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string,
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and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow,
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that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
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much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire,
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his wrath towards you burns like fire
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you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes,
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than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.
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it is a great furnace of wrath ... that you are held over in the hand of that God,
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You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it,
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in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance;
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Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners;
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poor sinners
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many are flocking to him,
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washed them from their sins in his own blood
