Basked in what you know what America in the 1700s how would colonists react to Edward's sermon? would they found it frightening, hopeful, or both?

The question is asking to state how would colonists react to Edward Sermon, base on my research and further investigation, the possible answer would be Rev. Jonathan Edwards delivered the execution sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Enfield, Connecticut on July 8, 1741. This execution sermon is a lurid and bitter jeremiad against the "New York Negro rebels" who were then being hanged and burned at the stake for a suspected plot to destroy the village of New York by arson fire.