“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Read the text, then answer the question.

“O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: ‘Tis 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…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…”

- Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God,”174

Which of the following were effects of the declining role of religion in New England society? Check all of the boxes that apply.

More people were becoming church members.

The Half-Way Covenant was adopted.

People began to accuse others in their community of witchcraft.