The question is, how does the colonists react to Edward Sermon, base on my research and further investigation, the possible answer would be Rev. Jonathan Edwards delivered the execution sermon "in the hands of an Angry God" in Enfield, Connecticut on July 8, 1741. This execution sermon is a lurid and bitter jeremiad against the "New York Negro rebels" who were then being hanged and burned. at the stake for a suspected plot to destroy the village of New York by arson fire on July 8, 1741. This execution sermon and