"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked... He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours." — Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," 1741
Sermons such as this one most directly contributed to which mid-eighteenth-century outcome in the British North American colonies?
- A
The dissolution of all colonial assemblies under royal decree
- B
Crown-imposed toleration of Catholicism throughout New England
- Ccheck_circle
Splits within established churches between 'Old Lights' and 'New Lights'
- D
The mandatory establishment of Methodism as a colonial state church
Explanation
Revivalists like Edwards and Whitefield divided Congregational and Presbyterian churches into pro-revival "New Lights" and traditionalist "Old Lights." The Crown did not impose Catholic toleration in New England, did not dissolve colonial assemblies in this period, and Methodism was never an established colonial state church.