1. He hopes to scare people into his religion by giving very detailed scary sermons.


2. Edwards is talking about how the natural man is a sinner. Everyone is born with sin and the majority of his audience is the men at church.

3. Appease is to abate

4. He uses repetition to prove a point and make it seem worse.

5. He uses this clause to spike fear in the audience. He wanted the audience to fear god day and night and he used descriptive details to do so.

6. The purpose is to create a more emotional impact on the audience, to try to persuade the audiences answer.
7. He uses not willingly in every sentence to exaggerate his point. he uses the semicolons to emphasize each point of the statements.
8. Gods wrath is always ready for a person who sins. In this text the use of imagery is used to help understatement the power of god.
9.Edwards says that god is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin he will drop us in it. Edwards tells his audience we need to be better followers of god.


10. Edwards uses ethos to pathos. He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His visions of god are very different from today and may seem illogical to us but may be logical to them.


11. The tone stays the same throughout the speech. We the people aren't worthy of being on earth and we are basically gods toys to play with. He keeps the tone of us on the verge of death. He claims that we are hanging over a fiery pit and one wrong move will send us to hell this idea of a horrible death also remains throughout the sermon.

12.These texts are meant to be heard he uses the example of the bow and arrow, and how god wrath is bent and the arrow made ready in the string and justice bends the arrow at your heart and strains the bow and it is nothing but the please of god and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all. This is meant to be heard.

13. His text is persuasive by giving dark scary details and visions of horror if they don't live by gods ways. This makes the audience fear their life on a constant basis and engulf themselves into the sermon.


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