The Best of Jonathan Edwards Sermons is a compilation of three of Jonathan Edwards' sermons on audio. This was one of the free audio books that was given out by ChristianAudio.com. The three sermons are: his farewell sermon (June 1750), Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, and A Divine and Supernatural Light. These sermons are excellent, free, and meant to be listened to versus read. The key is to get in a place where you can listen without distraction.
I will give some brief excerpts from two of the sermons.
His farewell sermon (June 1750) (A caution to pastors)
"Ministers, and the people that have been under their care, must be parted in this world, how well soever they have been united. … It often happens, that those who seem most united, in a little time are most disunited, and at the greatest distance. Thus ministers and people, between whom there has been the greatest mutual regard and strictest union, may not only differ in their judgments, and be alienated in affection, but one may rend from the other, and all relation between them be dissolved. The minister may be removed to a distant place, and they may never have any more to do one with another in this world. But if it be so, there is one meeting more that they must have, and that is in the last great day of accounts."
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"The subject that very much enrages an arbitary prince, is liable to suffer the most extreme torments, that human art can invent or human power can inflict. But the greatest earthly potentates, in their greatest majesty and strength, and when clothed in their greatest terrors, are but feeble despicable worms of the dust, in comparison of the great and almighty Creator and King of heaven and earth: it is but little that they can do, when most enraged, and when they have exerted the utmost of their fury. All the kings of the earth before God are as grasshoppers, they are nothing and less than nothing: both their love and their hatred is to be despised. The wrath of the great King of Kings is as much more terrible than theirs, as his majesty is greater."
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