Sinners in the hands of an Angry God

The sermon written by John Edwards was a last desperate attempt to cling to the Puritan period when Transcendentalism was becoming popular. His sermon is eighteen pages of the same message: You will go to hell and nothing can stop you. His audience feared his words, and probably caused some people to even believe his message. The sermon repeats the symbols of a spider or some other insect as the only chance of salvation (in other words, a small chance).