Rhetorical Analysis Of Sinner In The Hands Of An Angry God

Often in sermans ministers pastors persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in “sinner in the hands of an angry god” by Jonathon Edwards where he illustrated that the moral of the story is “if sinners repent, they won’t face the wrath of god” Edward using an convincing tone and wanted to have an impact on his audience by appealing to their fears, pity and Varity. Edward had an impact on his puritan’s audience because of convincing tone, clear imagery and clear figurative language. Foremost Edward is trying to show his audience to be cautionary of after life and that god can easily destroy his sinners who have done wrong and did not repent. For example in the text the author stated “so that thus it is that natural me held in ….. They have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it.” Meaning that if humans have sinned and has not …show more content…
The author states that “A day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open..” this shows that the author is saying the sinners that have not repented are going have to soon or later have to feel the wrath of god and he will have no problem coming down hard on you and make your life a living hell, he will also have no mercy towards the sinners. Also the author uses tone of expectant and convincing and he want the sinners to expect that he is coming for the sinners and will not show mercy towards them. For example the author tells the audience that “Crying with a loud voice to poor sinners, a day where in many are flocking to him and pressing into the kingdom of god” this suggest that the author uses tone of persuading and the appeal to vanity to show his sinners to have repent for their wrong doing and ask for forgiveness and they may will be