Jonathan Edwards and the Fire and Brimstone Speeches
Jonathan Edwards was born in Connecticut and was from a strict Puritan home. ... ” Jonathan Edwards took it and broke it down to analyze. ... And this is where Edwards really talks to his congregation. ... ” Some other things he would say: “God holds you over a pit of hell…his wrath toward you burns like fire…he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight…” “It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. ... Edwards ends the sermon with another quote, this one: "Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.