Death Fly Unseen Rhetorical Analysis

To strongly state the importance of being saved, Jonathan Edwards uses different literary devices to appeal to the non-converted puritans to convert over. Which he successfully does and his speech is now a world-renowned seminar.
The sentence “Death fly unseen” is an image device used by Mr.Edwards to convey or get his point across that you can't run away from death. That death is like a lottery ticket. Of course, there's a winner but it's not money that waits for you at the bank.
The purpose Edward was trying to convey was that if you don't convert over, God will know and death will fall upon you within a blink of an eye. That death is unpredictable so you can never be prepared.
An appeal Mr.Edward used was to get into their thoughts and feelings, is …show more content…
In this sense, he used pathos for emotions to convey or get his point across by using
“death” and “sharpest sign” to get you to fear his words for not converting over.
He clearly gets his point across, making this sermon that would go down in history, and in the books.
The sentence “It is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.” Edward sets the mood and setting by creating fear and telling it how God wants it to be not how they want it to be. He uses them to make us better understand that it's God’s choice to either keep them alive or kill you off with a snap of his finger. The purpose was to get his point across for not converting. Saying a weak person like you is nothing to God. That he has the upper hand to do anything he chooses fit for you.
He again uses pathos to convey emotions, such as fear, stress, and loneliness for what's to come in the future.
He writes “One holds a spider or some loathsome insects over the fire.” to stress that you're nothing but a little insect that could be easily killed, if you don't convert over. God in