What Puritan values do you see in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

One Puritan
value is the hatred of sin and belief in God's judgment. Much of Edwards's sermon deals with
Hell and God's hate of it. Edwards describes a burning Hell of torment in order to urge his
congregation to repent right away. Edwards uses metaphors, likening God's wrath to a strung bow
and life's fragility to a spiderweb being held over an eternal flame.

Another
Puritan value is the faith in God's grace. By turning away from sin and accepting Christ, man
can be saved from damnation. Edwards urges his listeners to accept the purity of Christ in order
to be saved from sin's inevitable result.

The Puritan experiment in the New
World was to be the "city upon a hill" where the church and society could be purified.
The Puritans simplified the Christian message down to repentance and faith in Christ is the only
way to be saved from damnation. The Puritans, in their attempt to be godly, usedand local
statutes to punish and shun sinners. In this respect, "" demonstrates Puritan values
because the Puritans viewed God as the ultimate judge of mankind. The only way to avoid an
eternal sentence in Hell was repentance.