' goal was to
awaken people to what, to him, was the very real danger of continuing in their sin, to get them
to repent and call on God for mercy. Though he intended to scare and sober his audience, his
goal was not to drive them away, but ultimately to bring them to God.
Edwards preached the sermon in response to what he sensed was a complacent attitude in the town
where he was preaching. People were professing Christians, but they assumed that by attending
church, they had done all they needed to do. They were not thinking in terms of God as being a
real entity whom they...
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