Sunday, November 28, 2010

What are some examples of Edwards using fear to get his point across to the congregation in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Edwards set
out many examples illustrating how the members of his congregation are in extreme danger during
the course of his sermon. He based his sermon on a text referring to the sliding of people's
feet over a period of time and interpreted this to be a reference to God's wrath at those who
fall away from following His will as time goes by.

The Application portion of
the sermon then explained exactly what awaited those whose feet had slipped off God's intended
pathway.

the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the
wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor
any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air;


Edwards made it very clear that no one was safe; no one was exempt
from the punishment awaiting those who had sinned.

However
you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may
keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing
but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting
destruction.

 

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