"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

In his 1741 sermon, Jonathan Edwards held the horrors of hell over his congregation to awaken them back onto a Puritan path.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Crucible, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The New England Primer, The Trial of Martha Carrier, The Lessons of Salem, The Very Proper Gander, Declaration of Conscience, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Speech to the Virginia Convention, The Gettysburg Address, FDR's First Inaugural Address , JFK's Inaugural Address
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  1. divine
    emanating from God
    Men deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way; it makes no objection against God's using His power at any moment to destroy them.
  2. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
    They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion.
  3. immoderate
    beyond reasonable limits
    The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury
  4. restrain
    keep under control; keep in check
    as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if, sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and brimstone
  5. obligation
    the social force that binds you to a course of action
    God has laid Himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment.
  6. deliverance
    recovery or preservation from loss or danger
    God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death
  7. fiery
    like or suggestive of a flame
    So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it
  8. wrath
    intense anger
    His anger is as great towards them as those that are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of His wrath in hell
  9. appease
    make peace with
    and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger
  10. gape
    be wide open
    The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up
Created on Tue Nov 11 09:48:50 EST 2014 (updated Wed Nov 12 10:25:27 EST 2014)

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