Sinners in the hands of an angry god edwards uses the image of a spider dangleing on a threadover a fire to describe?

a person's ability to avoid dam.nation.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon by Jonathan Edwards that serves as an appeal to sinners to repent. He argues that the judgement will indeed come, and that this will be much more scary and painful than they can even imagine. He also emphasizes that the judgement will be unexpected and sudden, and that each day is in fact only a display of God's mercy.

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it was all just as it was in the law courts. the doctor put on just the same air towards him as he himself put on towards an accused person.