SiNNERS iN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD

"It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand. It is no security to a natural man, that he is now in health, and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger in any respect in his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world in all ages, shows this is no evidence, that a man is not on the very brink of eternity, and that the next step will not be into another world. The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable. Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen. The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discem them. God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that there is nothing to make it appear, that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or go out of the ordinary course of his providence, to destroy any wicked man, at any moment. All the means that there are of sinners going out of the world, are so in God's hands, and so universally and absolutely subject to his power and determination, that it does not depend at all the less on the mere will of God, whether sinners shall at any moment go to hell, than if means were never made use of, or at all concerned in the case. " (Edwards)


Reflection: The message that I received from reading this piece of work is that it does not matter whether you are a wise or wicked man your fate is still in the hands of God. Also it does not matter what a wicked man may do in his life time God is the only person that has the power to send this man to hell. All in all the fate of anyone is in the hands of God, especially when it come down to that person being a sinner. God makes the ultimate decsions on whether the man changes or stays wicked and then is sent to hell. This passage applies to me because it mke me poner the things that I have done in my life, and whether they were good or bad, God is the only one with the power to send me to heaven or hell.

Dear Diary,

After reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, it opened my eyes to realized that many people who have moved to this New World have lost their way in a sense that they are not doing the are not sticking to the way they use to live and thinking that they will get away without being punished. But after reading this book it opened my eyes to see that these people will be punsished for the actions they have decides to take. Furthermore the only real punishment can come from God, since the fate of everyone is held in his hands.

Danielle Rene