LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Versus from the Burning of Our House
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell’s wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air; ‘tis only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.
Detailed explanation-3: -One more metaphor used by Edwards is “ The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire…” This metaphor talks about how God could care less about you, you are to him as a spider is to you.
Detailed explanation-4: -This metaphor compares God holding back his wrath with a floodgate holding back a river. If God decides to “let himself go, ” his wrath would be as devastating as a flood resulting from the opening of a dam.