I am not sure with which
excerpt you have been provided, but there are a great many quotations that support the idea that
God has ultimate control over the fate of every person. In his fourth point, Edwards says that
"the reason why [people] are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's
appointed time is not come." In other words, people have avoided falling into hell not as a
result of their own goodness or anything they are doing, but because God has not decided it is
time yet.
Further, he goes on, "Men's hands cannot be strong when God
rises up." We are powerless against God's will; only God can determine our futures, and we
can have no effect whatsoever when he has decided against us. Later, Edwards claims that
"The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at
what moment God shall permit him."
The evidence of this belief abounds.
Search for quotations like this, and you'll be all set!
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