Sinners by Jonathan Edwards

             Envision living in the day of the Puritans. Living in a land where everything is new and exciting. There is the freedom of speech and religion. But some chose not to believe in the divine religion, the religion of believing in a higher power or in some cases, God. Jonathan Edwards had a lot to say to those who chose not to believe in that awesome power, the power of God.
             Jonathan Edwards wants to frighten the Puritans into following a more righteous path. In the passage that Edwards writes he says "Men are held in the hand of God over the pit of Hell..." in this direct quote Edwards is trying to say the Puritans are going to hell, unless they follow the more righteous path. This is a good quote because it tells how Edwards feels about the path, and how he thinks that everyone is going to fall into the blazing pit of Hell. Edwards wants to get his point across to the non-believers and in doing so he feels that he must frighten them into following that path, he uses a lot of metaphors , similes, hyperboles, and personification in doing this. Edwards says in one simile that he wrote, "Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead..." in this simile, Edwards says that the Puritans are evil without Christ, they are heavy and falling into hell because they don't believe. The simile expresses how Edwards feels about the people who are without Christ, he thinks that they are wicked and he shows how strongly he feels about the religion and the non-believers. In
             the next quote Edwards says, " The Devil is waiting for them, Hell is gaping for them..." in this personification, Edwards is saying that hell is just waiting for the non-believers to fall into the trap, that hell is waiting to pull them into its grasp. This quote is a good example of showing how Edwards is trying to scare the Puritans, it shows how Hell and the Devil are everywhere, are frighten
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