“Sinners within the Fingers of an Indignant God” is a robust and influential sermon delivered by Jonathan Edwards in 1741. The sermon is a traditional instance of Puritan rhetoric and a key doc within the historical past of American faith.
Edwards’s sermon is a warning to sinners of the risks of hellfire and damnation. He argues that God is a simply and offended God who will punish the depraved for his or her sins. Edwards makes use of vivid imagery and language to explain the horrors of hell, and he warns that sinners are in imminent hazard of being forged into the flames.