AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Spiders of the World
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Hands of Satan
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Hell and Salem
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Sinners in the Hand____
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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: -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. His wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edwards ends the sermon with one final appeal: “Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come.” According to Edwards and the Bible, only by returning to Christ can one escape the stark fate he outlines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut, is an appeal to ‘sinners’ to recognize that they will be judged by God and that this judgment will be more fearful and painful than they can comprehend.