Two Renditions of the Famous Sermon by Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands...

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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of the Christian concept of Hell with observations of the secular world and citations of scripture. It remains Edwards' most famous written work, and is widely studied both among American Christians and historians, due to the glimpse it provides into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730--1755.

Doctrine"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."

Most of the sermon's text consists of ten "considerations". They are as follows:

1.God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment.
2.The Wicked deserve to be cast into hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at any moment.
3.The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell.
4.The Wicked, on earth - at this very moment - suffer the torments of Hell. The Wicked must not think, simply because they are not physically in Hell, that God (in Whose hand the Wicked now reside) is not - at this very moment - as angry with them as He is with those miserable creatures He is now tormenting in hell, and who - at this very moment - do feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath.
5.At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready to fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own.
6.If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of wicked men.