LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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They have done enough good works to keep them out
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They have spent enough time in church to keep them out
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They are held up by God’s hand and his will keeps them out
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Similes. “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked” (par. 7) This simile compares God preventing you from falling into hell with a man holding a scary insect over a fire.
Detailed explanation-2: -A leader of the first Great Awakening in colonial New England, and at that time a minister in Northampton, Massachusetts, Edwards sought to remind his listeners of the fiery punishment that awaited unbelievers, and to encourage them to follow the moral path he outlined.
Detailed explanation-3: -O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath-that you are held over, by the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in Hell!
Detailed explanation-4: -Jonathan Edwards. When Edward says that “men are held in the hand of God, ” he means that. the fate of human beings is determined by God. According to Edwards, human beings have done nothing to appease God.