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Reverend Jonathan Edwards preaches to his congregation in Enfield, Connecticut his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"; an influence for the First Great Awakening.
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American preacher and philosopher (1703–1758)
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Enfield, Connecticut
Town in Connecticut, United States
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Sermon by Jonathan Edwards (1741)
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First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
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