i. Tho’ hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces: They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. Oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. But it is not so with God. Because this whole sermon is basically warning his congregation that they must repent from their sinful ways. in his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (July 8, 1741), claims that the unconverted are hanging from the hands of God, and can be dropped off to the eternity of hell, his sermon is used to make the sinners be afraid and understand how the power of God is saving them, but it is only for his pleasure, unless if … There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. Edwards agrees that everyone is predestined and anyone no matter who you are can go to, In every aspect of their lives, the goal of the Puritans was to make a society that would be in every way, connected to God. “The Minister's black veil “ and “Sinners In The Hands of an angry god: may seem similar since they talk on the behalf of religion, they have differences such as the punishment, damnation, and who the sinners are. My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class.”, LitCharts uses cookies to personalize our services.

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He continues to show how they would be swallowed up by flames and fire. The most common tool used by Edwards to frighten people into believing what he was saying was repetition. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!”, “The foolish children of men do miserably delude themselves in their own schemes, and in their confidence in their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow.”, “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose.”, “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 strains 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.”, “All the kings of the earth before God are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing: both their love and their hatred is to be despised.”, “The corruption of the heart of man is ... immoderate and boundless in its fury ... it is like fire pent up by God’s restraints, when as if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or a furnace of fire and brimstone.”, “For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide.”, “Thus it will be with you that are in an unconverted state, if you continue in it; the infinite might, and majesty, and terribleness, of the Omnipotent God shall be magnified upon you in the ineffable strength of your torments.”, “Some make gods of their pleasures; some choose Mammon for their god; some make gods of their own supposed excellencies, or the outward advantages they have above their neighbors: some choose one thing for their god, and others another. Quotes from Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. So that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell; that is his place; from thence he is Joh. 1. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel, that has found means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the numbers of his followers.

This attitude can be summed up by the notion that God’s primary characteristic is his wrath. It doesn’t matter how religious the man is or how many prayers he makes. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen. Welcome back. Instant downloads of all 1364 LitChart PDFs All Quotes In accordance with traditional sermon structure, Jonathan Edwards opens “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” with the two Biblical readings on which the sermon is based. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. In fact, his opening argument is essentially just a process of drawing out the metaphorical implications of the phrase “Their foot shall slide in due time.” It essentially states that the path on which man treads during his time on Earth is … and theme. God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. Let everyone fly out of Sodom!!

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut.