Question

edwards says his listeners are hanging by a thread over the fires of eternal punishment. what will happen when this thread comes asunder?

Answer 1

Answer:

They would fall upon the great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that they are held over in the hand of that God.

Explanation:

In the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,"  Edwards uses many images to frighten his audience in hopes of persuading them to reform their ways.  He believes that they all deserve to be cursed and that they will be unless they reform.   Edwards spends a great deal of the sermon emphasizing how angry God is at all the sinners of the world, and especially those in the congregation.