Angry God]. What he is explaining is that godś bow is always on you no matter inocent or guilty.He is always watchinhg, ready to strike at any mistake. To ensure that juctice pervails he is ready to ¨shoot¨ his arrow at any sinner. Johnathan edwards explains how strong godś wrath is ¨but the meer Pleasure of God, and that of an angry god, without any promise or obligation at all that¨ (Edwards). He does not care if you had made a mistake it pleasures him in shooting this arrow he has not promised anyone that they will be saved, he simply punsihes sinners. Having you ¨being made drunk with blood.¨ means that godś bow has been shot and you have been killed. During this time period Edwards is explaining …show more content…
In the qutation number four Edward Taylor uses a deep set of metaphors in [Upon a Spider Cacthing a
Fly] to convey his view on God and the Christians of his time. The spider in this contex would be the devil himself, he is on a mission to devower the fly and attempt to get the wasp. The fly in this case would be the sinning christian the weak one that the devil could easily get. Finally, the wasp would be the normal chritian that is too dangerous to try and take down. In this stanza Taylor is speaking about the wasp and his stinger. Since the christian has commited no crime it is impossible to punish and capture him as a sinner. The wasp as described as ¨Fall foul threrin: Whom yet thy whorl pins did not clasp Lest he should fling His sting" (Taylor). The spiders Whorl pins could not capture the