[aruanan]

Too bad Edwards is so scripturally inept*. The only people G-d made these promises to was Israel. Not the church. Not the American Colonies. Not Great Britain. Not the United States.

*But what else could one expect:

Edwards did not accept his theological inheritance passively. In his "Personal Narrative" he confesses that, from his childhood on, his mind "had been full of objections" against the doctrine of predestination--i.e., that God sovereignly chooses some to salvation but rejects others to everlasting torment; "it used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me." Though he gradually worked through his intellectual objections, it was only with his conversion (early in 1721) that he came to a "delightful conviction" of divine sovereignty, to a "new sense" of God's glory revealed in Scripture and in nature.
--Encyclopedia Britannica

[Jerry_M]

"Too bad Edwards is so scripturally inept*. The only people G-d made these promises to was Israel. Not the church. Not the American Colonies. Not Great Britain. Not the United States."

Did you even read the sermon? Are you proposing that God is only "promising" to judge Israel, and all the rest of the world gets off scot free? (Of course, in light of Jesus words, raising up "sons of Abraham" is not that difficult for Him, which shows how "scripturally inept" you are.)

Has God used one of your sermons to touch off a Great Awakening? If not, then you owe Edwards an apology.