Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

Edwards could have chosen a different tone for his visit to Enfield, but, after witnessing the ecstatic behavior of the Suffielders and gauging the temper of his audience, he elected to preach Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. It was a deliberate attempt to evoke the dramatic physical manifestations that Williams recorded in his diary later that day.