Awakening the Sinners to an Angry God When Jonathan Edwards gave his sermon to his congregation in the 1700s, he based it on the ideas of moral behaviors and his ideas of right and wrong. On July 8, 1741, the height of the Great Awakening, Edwards delivered a revival sermon in Enfield, Connecticut, that became the most famous of its kind. Edwards not only gave this sermon once, but he gave it twice to his congregations in order to convert them to Christ. When he gave this sermon for the second time, it was different; it was more intensifying and eye-opening. He always read with a composed style and used very few movements. Edwards helped intensify the Great Awakening with his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by telling of hell
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Logos is appealing to the audience 's sense of logic. Throughout Edwards’ sermon he lets his congregation have their own intake of what he is actually speaking about, by letting them question themselves and letting them use their own logic. Edwards says “So that, thus is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it” (41). This is making the congregation have their own logic on the situation by seeing that they are “natural men” like they were when they were born. Therefore they will be going to hell if they do not convert. Edwards makes the congregation question themselves by stating, “When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all”(43). In this text it lets the readers think did they really want to spend eternity with no future to look forward to, or do they want to look forward only onto the fiery pits of hell. If one isn’t reborn again, is one really willing to spend their eternity in a burning hell? So Edwards is trying to get his congregation to use their own logic by trying to get the listener or reader to ask themselves, is this really how they want to spend the rest of their lives, in hell? Or do they want to accept Jesus Christ in their lives to live in eternity where life is everlasting? However, Edwards also states, “Many are daily coming from the east, west, north, and south” (44). This lets his congregation know that people are believing, and they are being converted. Edwards uses this reference to the people in the Great Awakening who are starting to realize that the only way to the Kingdom of God is through Jesus Christ, his son. He lets them see that all these other people
Logos is appealing to the audience 's sense of logic. Throughout Edwards’ sermon he lets his congregation have their own intake of what he is actually speaking about, by letting them question themselves and letting them use their own logic. Edwards says “So that, thus is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it” (41). This is making the congregation have their own logic on the situation by seeing that they are “natural men” like they were when they were born. Therefore they will be going to hell if they do not convert. Edwards makes the congregation question themselves by stating, “When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all”(43). In this text it lets the readers think did they really want to spend eternity with no future to look forward to, or do they want to look forward only onto the fiery pits of hell. If one isn’t reborn again, is one really willing to spend their eternity in a burning hell? So Edwards is trying to get his congregation to use their own logic by trying to get the listener or reader to ask themselves, is this really how they want to spend the rest of their lives, in hell? Or do they want to accept Jesus Christ in their lives to live in eternity where life is everlasting? However, Edwards also states, “Many are daily coming from the east, west, north, and south” (44). This lets his congregation know that people are believing, and they are being converted. Edwards uses this reference to the people in the Great Awakening who are starting to realize that the only way to the Kingdom of God is through Jesus Christ, his son. He lets them see that all these other people