Sermons I've listened to by Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Books I've read by Jonathan Edwards: Religious Affections
"It would be dreadful to suffer this feirceness and wrath of Almighty God for one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look foreward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls, and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverances, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; and you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions and millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this Almighty merciless vengende; and then when you have so done, when many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that it is all but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite."
"...Natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of hell; they have deserved the firey pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked: his anger is as great towards them as those that are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of his wrath in hell... "
"The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in thier own hearts is struggling to break out; and they have no interest in any Mediator... "
"The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons to a conviction of their danger. This that you have heard is the case of every one out of Christ. That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you..."
"the sun does not willingly shine upon you, to give you light and to serve sin and satan; the earth does not willingly yeild her increase, to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God's enemies..."
"There are black cloads of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder, and were it not for the restraining hand of God they would immediately burst forth upon you."
"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string; and justice directs the bow to your heart, and strains at the bow; and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being drunk with your blood..."
"...all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from the dead in sin, to a state of new, are in the hands of an angry God..."
"However unconvinced you may now be of the truth of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it..."
"There is no other reason to be given, while you have been hearing this address, but his mercy; yea, no other reason can be given why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. O sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in!"
"You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it assunder; and you have no interest in a mediator..."
"How awful are those words of the great God, I will tread them in mine anger, and will trample them in my fury: and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiments"- Isaiah 63:3
Now God stands ready to pity you, this is the day of mercy; you may now cry with some encouragement of obtaining mercy. But when once the day of mercy is past, your most lamentable and dalorous cries and shreiks will be in vain..."
"Some may be in hell in a very short time, before this year is out. And it would be no wonder if some hearers, who are now in health, and quiet and secure, may be there before tomorrow morning..."
"There case is past all hope, They are crying in extreme misery and perfect despair; but here you are in the land of the living, blessed with Bibles and Sabbaths, and ministers, and have an opportunity to obtain salvation. What would not those poor damned souls give for one days opportunity such as you now enjoy?"
"And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherin Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands calling and crying with a load voice to poor sinners."
