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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Name: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Author: Jonathan Edwards

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One of the most celebrated sermons in American history, preached at Enfield, Connecticut in 1741 during the First Great Awakening. Drawing from Deuteronomy 32:35, Edwards argues with terrifying force that God's sovereign pleasure alone keeps the unconverted from immediate damnation. Through vivid imagery — sinners suspended over a burning pit, held by a thread — Edwards confronts his congregation with the urgency of repentance and the infinite fierceness of divine wrath, while pointing toward the still-open door of mercy in Christ.

Chapters: 2
Word count: 7,409
Type: Sermon

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Mr. Edwards's Sermon on the Danger of the Unconverted.

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8th, 1741.

At a time of great awakenings; and attended with remarkable impressions on many of the hearers.

By Jonathan Edwards, Master of Arts, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton.

Amos 9:2-3.

Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence I will command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

Boston: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in Queen Street over against the Prison, 1741.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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