LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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extraordinary opportunity, door of mercy, happy state
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flames do now rage, sword is whet, exquisite horrible misery
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unconverted men walk over the pit, justice bends the arrow, light and life
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of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight, God’s hand has held you up
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a sermon written by the American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut.
Detailed explanation-2: -This metaphor compares God holding back his wrath with a floodgate holding back a river. If God decides to “let himself go, ” his wrath would be as devastating as a flood resulting from the opening of a dam.
Detailed explanation-3: -The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edwards goes to talk about God’s wrath. “It is the wrath of the infinite God.” So God is infinite. “It is the fierceness of His wrath that you are exposed to.” So not only is He infinite, but so is His wrath.