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While Edwards believed that God was angry and vindictive and had no responsibility (or propensity) to provide mercy and salvation, he believed that Christ was mankind’s only hope. This is due to the covenant of grace, which is the interpretation of the Bible that eternal life is promised to those who have faith in Christ. Edwards refers to Christ as “the Mediator,” because it is Christ who mediates between God and mankind, intervening against God’s wrath to save from damnation those who have faith in Christ and who ask him for mercy. Therefore, Christ is the only redeeming figure in Edwards’ frightening sermon; in fact, the sermon is so frightening because Edwards is using all the rhetoric at his disposal to convince the congregation that they must have faith in Christ, or else they will suffer unimaginable consequences.
Christ (“the Mediator”) Quotes in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God quotes below are all either spoken by Christ (“the Mediator”) or refer to Christ (“the Mediator”). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen.
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Christ (“the Mediator”) Quotes in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God quotes below are all either spoken by Christ (“the Mediator”) or refer to Christ (“the Mediator”). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1
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God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen.
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