Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“Haste and escape your lives, look not back behind you, escape the mountains, lest you be consumed.” alluding to the biblical city of Sodom that was destroyed by god’s wrath in the form of fires due to it’s sinful people. Patrick Henry on the other hand used a large amount of Logos to convince his audience at the Virginia convention that war with Britain was necessary. In Paragraph 6 he stated “We have petitioned; We have remonstrated; We have supplicated…. Our petitions have been slighted;…

sounds content and satisfied with what she has due to the fact that she realizes her heavenly blessings that God has given her. Despite her loses, she realizes that the fire happened for good because she comes to the understanding that because she mourned so greatly over her possessions, that it took her attention off of God. In the Puritan religion, anything that takes away the focus on God is considered wordly and sinful. In this passage, Bradstreet says, "I blest his Name that gave and took,…

Edwards began preaching his religious experience as a “New Light” in viewing sin and penance to reach heaven in 1731 Massachusetts, but his most notable sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was delivered at a 1741 revival meeting in Connecticut. After viewing the full text of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, that I referenced, it is evident that many Americans are inspired by fear. Edward’s sermon obviously fits in all of the revival meetings that were going on during…

This is a quote from the famous ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ sermon by Jonathan Edwards. A new era dawned at the turn of the 1730’s and 40’s. The Great Awakening swept through Protestant Europe and British America. It changed the people’s views towards one another and towards God. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought an end to fighting between political and religious groups. The Church of England became the center point for religion. Other religions, such as Catholicism and…

Winthrop uses a calming form of persuasion to influence his constituents. Edwards on the other hand uses more of a fire and brimstone tone to reach his constituents. Both sermons are meant to help motivate and keep god in the lives of the early settlers. In Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity,’ this sermon was given by Winthrop to the puritans on their way to the new world. He was trying to ensure that God, love and kindness help them to overcome the challenges they are about to face. “Now…

He wanted to let most of the people know that God wanted all the Puritans to be able to love one another and be able to help one another when some of the pressing situations emerge in the world (Gale). Failure to adhere to most of these things and lack of unity and togetherness would make most of…

Awakening the Sinners to an Angry God When Jonathan Edwards gave his sermon to his congregation in the 1700s, he based it on the ideas of moral behaviors and his ideas of right and wrong. On July 8, 1741, the height of the Great Awakening, Edwards delivered a revival sermon in Enfield, Connecticut, that became the most famous of its kind. Edwards not only gave this sermon once, but he gave it twice to his congregations in order to convert them to Christ. When he gave this sermon for the second…

Human nature is the way a human thinks, feels, and behaves. The authors; Jonathan Edwards, Olaudah Equiano, and Thomas Jefferson learn the importance of understanding human nature in Early American Texts, through written history. They all have distinctive views of human nature through the relationship of the government, law, religion, and equality. Edwards and Equiano are quite similar, believing human nature is cruel and brutal, whereas Jefferson differs from the two, believing in equality…

Many topics can be found when one searches a topic so broad as “Puritan”. One of the most interesting, in the view of the author of this paper, would be the public opinion of the females of the day. Carol F. Karlson wrote a book titled The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. In this book she states the popular opinion of women during the time period. Johnathon Edwards had an opinion on the same topic, as is found in Zachary Hutchins’ article “Edwards and Eve:…

George Whitfield, both of whom made a great impact on American history. Edwards and Whitefield shared some similarities in their sermons. They preached in opposition to Calvinism which stated that you must wait for God, instead saying that God is waiting for them and that they may ask God for his mercy. Both men used emotion to appeal to the people. The difference between them is how they used emotion. Edwards struck fear into people with his sermons, such is the case in…