Inexperienced readers of Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” may be concerned that a Puritan minister appears to threaten and frighten his congregation; however, it is actually his ethical approach to the topic of accepting Christ that binds him to his audience.
Readers of Edwards sermon may think that this is some man trying to get his point across about this “Angry hand of God.” But what readers may not know as they read is, Jonathan Edwards is their minister and is telling his sermon to his congregation. Edwards uses diction and tone to portray himself as a minister, Edwards starts out his sermon with, “we find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth.” Edwards is referencing God by saying “ easy is it for God when he …show more content…
Edwards also uses loaded language to persuade his audience to believe what he was addressing, on page 19 line 56 he starts to talk about how the Bow of God's wrath is bent, and how the arrow is made ready on the string and justice bends the arrow at your heart. So in context this is relating to hell being a temptation, and the blood of christ taking away the temptation to straighten the arrow to follow our God. Also Edwards uses imagery to explain how lucky we are to still be on earth and not in hell, “that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. Lastly he uses imagery to explain how people are suffering without having God, “while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit.” He also uses not so good ethos to explain how how the people are acting towards God, and how God feels about it, the sermon states, “God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell. Sermon also states, “you have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.”
Readers of Edwards sermon may think that this is some man trying to get his point across about this “Angry hand of God.” But what readers may not know as they read is, Jonathan Edwards is their minister and is telling his sermon to his congregation. Edwards uses diction and tone to portray himself as a minister, Edwards starts out his sermon with, “we find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth.” Edwards is referencing God by saying “ easy is it for God when he …show more content…
Edwards also uses loaded language to persuade his audience to believe what he was addressing, on page 19 line 56 he starts to talk about how the Bow of God's wrath is bent, and how the arrow is made ready on the string and justice bends the arrow at your heart. So in context this is relating to hell being a temptation, and the blood of christ taking away the temptation to straighten the arrow to follow our God. Also Edwards uses imagery to explain how lucky we are to still be on earth and not in hell, “that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. Lastly he uses imagery to explain how people are suffering without having God, “while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit.” He also uses not so good ethos to explain how how the people are acting towards God, and how God feels about it, the sermon states, “God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell. Sermon also states, “you have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.”