"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

1.) Edwards believes that his congregation has lots of sinners. He gives the speach to scare them into changing their ways.

2.) If you do God's will and everything right then you will be granted the ability to go to heaven. Men who sin and are held over a fiery pit in the had of god. His audience are natural men.

3. Abate means to Diminish.

4.) He uses this repetitive structure to prove a point, that there are more than one dreadful  thing that will happen. he tried to make it seems as bad as possible. 

5.) He shows that this part of the sermon, is more important than most of the text.

6.) The rhetorical effect has an effect on your emotions, because when he goes on and on without using periods it gives a different feel and mood of his speach. It makes it more suspensful and listeners pay more attention

7.) Edwards was inferring that everything he was saying all tied in to each other and all was related to all his ideas.

8.) He developed the simile by explaining what the wrath of god is like. His use of imagery is very powerful, for example he stated that " If God should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury".

9.) Edwards says that god is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin enough he will drop us in it. Edwards is trying to tell his audience that they need to be better followers of god.

10.) Edward uses ethos to pathos He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His vision of god is very different from todays and may seem not be as logical to us as it was to them back then. 

11.) Edwards' tone is in a fierce mode . "The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation." " Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell."

12.) These texts are meant to be heard: " The bow of Gods wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. " This was meant to be read: " It is everlasting wrath. it would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment.: but you must suffer it all to eternity."

13.)  His text is persuasive because he is making it sound as bad as possible so the people will want to do right and not go to hell. Persuasive text is the process of using words that are trying to get people to do something or convert. 

14.) The parts of the sermon where Edwards really stressed how important it is to be a devoted christian and what god will do if we sin, I believe is the part where listeners may have fainted or cried out. 

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