Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Glossary

• abominable: morally repugnant
• arbitrary: random, or by chance
• contrivance: a scheme
• cumbreth: to make useless
• immoderate: excessive or extravagant
• Jehovah: Hebrew name for God
• potentates: rulers with great power
• provoketh: to provoke, irritate, annoy
• rebuke: to firmly criticize on the basis of behavior
• Sodom: one of two cities mentioned in the Old Testament that God destroyed for the sinfulness of the inhabitants
• threshing: separating grain from a plant