Puritan Beliefs Of Jonathan Edwards

Every writer has a different way to express themselves, some are better than others and some it even comes naturally to. One of the greatest writers but also a great philosopher and minister in the 1700’s that stood out over the rest was Jonathan Edwards. The reason he stood out from the rest of the writers was because he had different approaches and reasoning’s than any other writer in his time. It all started when he became concerned that the individuals in the colonies had lost their focus on God. He wrote his sermons to glorify God by making him more relevant to the universe, and to show how God could see people if we are not following our beliefs. His writings seem to relate not to only one type, but a diverse type of puritan beliefs because there were too many diverse groups of Puritans that had varied beliefs. Some other ways Edward’s beliefs and puritan beliefs are the same as they both believe in predestination; certain people were destined to be saved and some were destined to be sent to hell. …show more content…
In 1741 he felt like he was called to give the same sermon again so he did. This time he stood in front of a congregation in Enfield, Connecticut to give his sermon called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” which then became one of the most famous sermons in American history. He first started his sermon by comparing puritan beliefs to the bible verse Deuteronomy 32:35 ‘Their foot shall slide in due time’. Edwards believed this meant that God controls the world and the humans in it. This sermon impacted an enormous amount of people around him, including the whole congregation which made them overemotional making them more likely to burst into