'Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God'

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In the sermon of, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edward, he was trying to persuade people to look up to God and to get rid of their sins, that it will take a lot off of their shoulders and God will look after them. The speech by Patrick Henry, “Liberty or Death”, has the same kinda aspect as the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, but talking about two different things. In the speech by Henry was the he was trying to persuade the colonist to go into was to fight against the british. The sermon and the speech had so many differences between the two of them, they were different audience but also the audience was kinda similar but they were both set at different places. They had the same type of emotions, and the

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