Passage From "Sinners"

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.

I chose this passage because of the way Edwards ended his sermon. He told these people about how they were being held up from hell by God, and only if they appease God can they be spared. Then he goes on to say what will happen if you do anything to anger God further. At that point, everyone in his audience is hanging on to his every word, waiting to hear how they can be spared from this doom. But, he just says how precarious their position over hell is, and that they are doomed to fall into hell, and nothing can save them from this fate. I thought that that ending seemed very ironic, and a bit of a let-down, and I laughed a little bit when I read that.