Jonathan Edwards, on the wrath of God and condition of sinners:
The unconverted are in a condition of infinite sinfulness-guilty of sin against infinite goodness and love-and therefore justly deserve the infinite punishment which now awaits them and from which only the goodness of God has kept them free up to this time...This punishment is utterly beyond imagination-universal, eternal, intolerable-the most extreme that an infinite God infinitely enraged can invent.
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and trains the bow; and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God-and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all-that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
Posted by apelles at April 2, 2003 12:52 PM