Page |107 fire.” For the present God restrained contrary to their nature and end.” A human wickedness “by his mighty rebellious humanity antagonized the rest power, as he does the raging waves of of creation, “and the world would spew the troubled sea,” but, if God should you out, were it not for the sovereign withdraw that restraining power, hand of him who hath subjected it in humanity’s willful self-regard would hope.” overturn nature. The most dangerous The just order of the cosmos fire in creation was not, therefore, the would rightly destroy humanity for its fire of hell but rather the hellfire bursting willful rebellion against the order of the forth from an unrestrained human wall: whole, and the fact that this had not The cormupuen ot the hear et man isa already happened was the expression of thing that 18 mato erate an DUnHUIESS something like the self-restraining mercy in Its fury; and while wicked men live of a monarch who does not order the Here ut s like fire pent up by (ed's execution of a traitor who has offended restraints, but, should God ever relax the royal honor: “The bow of God’s his governance, humanity’s boundless wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready fury would set on fire the course of on the string, and Justice bends the TALUS. arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, The turmoil stirred by human and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of willfulness, like a violent storm at sea, God, and that of an angry God, without threatened to capsize the ark of the any promise or obligation at all, that universe, and the earth responded to this keeps the arrow one moment from being threat in a terrifying version of the made drunk with your blood.” pathetic fallacy, in which not empathy The Great Awakening was but enmity arose between humans and coterminous and interactive with the thetr-uptura) environmen : eighteenth century development of the Consequently, except for “the sovereign modern physical sciences, especially pleasure of God, the Bal h