Select the words that Edwards uses in his sermon to make hell seem like a living thing.
Select the images of hell created by the use of these words.
Based on what you know about America in the 1700s, how would colonists react to Edwards’s sermon? Would they find it frightening, hopeful, or both?
They would find it both frightening and hopeful.
Check each key idea from Edwards’s sermon that you included in your answer.They would feel fearful because God is angry at unconverted men.They would feel fearful because hell is trying to seize new sinners every day. They would feel fearful because God may or may not keep sinners from fallinginto hell.They would feel hopeful because God is actively inviting sinners to gain “newlife” and avoid the pitfall of hell.
What does Edwards mean when he says that sinners “hang by a slender thread”?
What is the denotation of everlasting in this passage? briefeternalhorrifictremendous
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