Jonathan Edward's "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God"
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Jonathan Edwards's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
is moving and powerful. His effectiveness as an eighteenth century New
England religious leader is rooted in his expansive knowledge of the Bible
and human nature, as well as a genuine desire to "awaken" and save as many
souls as p ....
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.... manipulation occur in the doctrinal section where
Edwards attempts to prove the basis of his application. "Cut it down, why
cumbereth it in the ground?", Luke 13:7, is used by Edwards to illustrate
God's justifiably immediate destruction of those guilty of sin. Absent
from his selection is any mention of the moderation and patience that
continues in Luke 13:8-9: "let it alone this year also, until I dig around
it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well." By omitting these v
erses of ....
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