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SARAH PIERPONT
(1710-1758)
SARAH was BORN in one seven one zero. SARAH DIED in one seven five eight. In other words...SARAH was born in seventeen ten and died seventeen fiftyeight. She died at 48.
(1710-1758)
Edwards is well jnown for her life of Christian piety, her mystical expierences, and her merrige to pastor Johnathan Edwards. Apart from a handful of letters her only extant work is a spiritual narrative that was published more than seventy years after her death. The narrative relates the intense conversion experience Edwards underwent in 1742. Her account was used, in altered form, by Jonathan Edwards in his defense of spiritual revival in New England, of which he was a chief architect.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
(1703-1758)
EDWARDS was BORN in one seven zero three. EDWARDS DIED in one seven five eight. In other words...EDWARDS was born in seventeen o' three and he died in seventeen fifty eight.
(1703-1758)
Johnathan Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian. Hiw work as a whole is an expression of two themes: Absolute sovereignty of God and the beauty of God's holiness.
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God."
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by Christian theoligian Jonathan Edwards. Like his other works it combines vivd imagery of hell with observations of the world and citations of scripture. It provides a glimpse into the theology of the Great Awakening.
The sermon's text consists of ten "considerations.": 1. God may cast wicked men into hell at any moment. 2. The wicked deserve it. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the wicked. 3. The wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell. 4. The wicked on earth-at this very moment- suffer the roments of hell. The wicked must not think, simply because they are not phusically

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