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One may be saved by God or sent down into the underworld. In the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards attempts to persuade the audience to follow and obey God in everything they carry out. Edwards argues that a life of a person that does not have faith in God is demoralizing and melancholy by using the rhetorical device of repetition. Repetition is a potent device Edwards uses throughout his sermon; the repetition of the image of God’s hand speaks volumes throughout the

Rhetorical Analysis Preacher Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God,” frightens the audience with vivid depictions of Hell and God’s wrath. Through the use of polysyndeton, asyndeton, and constant repetition, Edwards persuades the sinners in his congregation to turn towards God. Edwards uses polysyndeton to emphasis the helplessness people have. He claims that a person’s “healthy constitution, and [their] own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all [their]

Jonathan Edward’s Sermon, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”, proposes many questions, such as how Edward’s pictures human nature. Edward preached and pictured human nature with many moving and powerful ways. In his sermon, Jonathan lectures about how human nature is naturally dreadful. Claiming how everybody in the world sins, it’s the corrupt sinners who don’t pray and worship to God who will be emitted to Hell. Jonathan Edwards preaches how the people of our planet must repent our sins, praying

Hailey Smith September 14, 2015 Essay “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathan Edwards’ memorable sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, was first delivered in 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut during the peak of New England’s first Great Awakening. When he delivered this sermon with horrid descriptions of hell, the congregation listened. It left a dramatic effect on the listeners leaving them weeping, and some even considering suicide! Jonathan Edwards conveyed his message to turn their

Jonathan Edwards' hellfire and brimstone in his Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God has several comparisons and contrasts with Anne Bradstreet's poems, "Upon the Burning of Our House" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband." One of the comparisons would be with the concept of Eternal Life. Both writers were Puritans, and accepted the concept of life after death. Bradstreet says in "To my Dear and Loving Husband" that she hopes "the heavens reward thee manifold, I pray...Then when we live no more

What's more horrifying than the vivid description and statement that you're probably going to hell if you don't change your ways? For most of the audience present during Jonathon Edwards' famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", nothing. Edwards effectively uses intense imagery and tone to scare the audience in his famous sermon. This sermon can be seen as both fearful and hopeful. The fear Edwards inspired in the congregation had many crying and others contemplating their life. One

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Response Paper In the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edward attempts to give sinners a chance to recognize that they will be looked down upon by God. The sermon carries a negative connotation throughout the piece, stating that those who sin will be destructed by fearful judgement. The purpose of this piece is to frighten sinners that they will not be forgiven and will end up nowhere but in hell. Edward’s tone throughout the sermon

Jonathan Edwards preached the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in Enfield, Connecticut. Edwards states to his listeners that God does not lack in power, and that people have yet not fallen to destruction because his mercy. God is so forgiving that he gives his people an opportunity to repent and change their ways before it was too late. Edwards urges that the possibility of damnation is immanent. Also that it urgently requires the considerations of the sinner before time runs out. He does not

Some Notes Concerning Affections and the Sublime in the Work of Jonathan Edward Jonathan Edwards’s attention to the separation of the body from the soul combined with his efforts to account for the spirit of revivalism during the “Great Awakening” implicates the sublime as both a rhetorical tool and psychological experience that, in either case, foregrounds the relationship between an individual’s perception of the self and his or her relationship to a community. Comparing Edwards’s personal

and forgiving (Winthrop 2). He provides not only simple ways to live a charitable life of honoring God, but detailed reasons why. This is effective because it is easy to understand for people and encourages them to want to live this lifestyle. In “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God,” Edwards only talks about God’s wrath, hell, and how all people are “damned from birth” (Edwards 1). These frightening subjects do not promote a Christian lifestyle change, only a rude awakening. Edwards even specifially