Q174. Is not this a very sad condition?
Yes; but this is not all, for their present unbelief bindeth them over to wrath, by shutting them up to the law; it also draweth them away from God, and will drown them in everlasting damnation, if the grace of God prevent not.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
Galatians 3:23
“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.”
Hebrews 3:17,18
“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?”
John 3:36
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”