The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this, God won’t hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go and then, at that very instant, they shall fall to destruction as he that stands in such slippery declining ground on the edge of a pit that he can’t stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. For it is said that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. That the reason why they are not fallen already, and don’t fall now, is only that God’s appointed time is not come. Another thing implied is, that they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down by the hand of another as he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down.Ĥ. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment!”ģ. 18, 19: “Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. It implies that they were always exposed to sudden, unexpected destruction as he that walks in slippery places is every moment liable to fall, he can’t foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next and when he does fall, he falls at once, without warning, which is also expressed in that Psalm lxxiii. 18: “Surely thou didst set them in slippery places thou castedst them down into destruction.”Ģ. This is implied in the manner of their destruction’s coming upon them, being represented by their foot’s sliding. That they were always exposed to destruction as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed to fall. The expression that I have chosen for my text, their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following things relating to the punishment and destruction that these wicked Israelites were exposed to.ġ. In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, that were God’s visible people, and lived under means of grace and that notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works that he had wrought towards that people, yet remained, as is expressed verse 28, void of counsel, having no understanding in them and that, under all the cultivations of heaven, brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit as in the two verses next preceding the text. 69 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
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