Personification In Sinners

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards states that a sinner without the help of God is pathetic and doomed for eternity. Edwards demonstrates this idea with the use of imagery, metaphors, and personification.

Edwards conveys imagery by creating a scene in which the listener can feel the vulnerability through the speech. Edwards preaches, "Your wickedness makes you heavy as lead... if God should let you, you would immediately sink and plunge in the bottomless gulf... all of your righteousness would have no more influence to uphold you." Above all, the use of imagery in this passage not only creates a vivid image, but emphasizes the part in which no one can save the sinner. This adds to show how deplorable the sinner