Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

I was asked about the quote from Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (preached in 1741 during the Great Awakening). Here is the text of the portion I quoted during the sermon:

So that thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked: his anger is as great towards them as those that are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of his wrath in hell; and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up for one moment. The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out; and they have no interest in any Mediator; there are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that preserves them at any moment is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forebearance of an incensed God.

You may read the entire sermon at the website here.