Their foot shall slide in due time--- Deut.
Edwards starts his sermon off with this verse from the bible and then goes into detail of exactly what was meant by the verse. He states that once placed on slippery ground, it is inevitable that you will eventually fall (Edwards 278). I coincide with Edwards on this statement, where there is a bad decision there is also a consequence that follows. The fact that you are playing around on slippery ground, or in this case living as a natural man and relying on oneself to avoid going to hell, it is expected that you will fall without the hand of another. Meaning that you and only you can determine the outcome of your life. If you choose to act on your own understanding and never look to God to guide you then you are already condemned to hell. .
Growing up in a Christian home we were taught that God is a jealous God and that he wants no man or thing to come before him. We were also taught that we were given the power of choice and with our choices came consequences. When Edwards says that, God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment (Edwards 282), he was stating that God is not going to force you to follow and live by his word the decision is all up to you, but with every choice there is always a right and a wrong. There is no obligation whatsoever to walk by the Covenant of Grace, but there is also no promise that you will have eternal life either. It almost goes back to the phrase You cant have your cake and eat it too. This means that it is impossible to have something both ways if both are in conflict of one another. One cannot continue to make one bad decision after another and expect for nothing to happen in return. Yes you may get away with it once or twice but whats done in the dark always comes to the light. Another thing we were taught growing up was that wisdom is not always how much you know.