God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak or walk: but, in virtue of the promise, the Spirit of life from Christ Jesus, at the time appointed, enters into the dead soul, and quickens it; so that it is no more morally dead, but alive, having new spiritual powers put into it, that were lost by Adam's fall.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.