LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Changing the tone of the sermon
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Emphasizing Edward’s point about God’s mercy
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appealing to the audience’s love of poetry
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Associating it with an authority respected by the audience
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Detailed explanation-1: -Read the excerpt from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth; yea, doubtless with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell.
Detailed explanation-2: -Edwards’s aim was to teach his listeners about the horrors of Hell, the dangers of sin, and the terrors of being lost. Edwards described the position of those who do not follow Christ’s urgent call to receive forgiveness.
Detailed explanation-3: -The allusion to Noah and the great flood suggests that God could once again use his power along with the power of flood waters to “come upon you with omnipotent power.”
Detailed explanation-4: -On this day in 1741, Jonathan Edwards delivered his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” in Enfield, Connecticut.