Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards Read one of the famous sermons of Johnathan Edwards on the web site devoted to him and his life work. Here is just the first paragraph of this sermon...."In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. The expression I have chosen for my text, Their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following doings, relating to the punishment and destruction to which these wicked Is... in Society and culture > Religion > Sermanswith andculturereligionsermanssociety