Jonathan Edwards’s "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Question 1

Which image is used throughout "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" to provoke fear in the audience?

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fire

Question 2

The fact that "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was popular suggests that the colonists

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were interested in Edwards’ ideas about religion.

Question 3

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards uses the image of a spider dangling on a thread over fire to describe

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a person's ability to avoid damnation.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."The bow of God's wrath is bent . . . 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.In this excerpt, the word “wrath” suggests that

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God is fiercely angry.

Question 5

Which quotation from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses a rhetorical device to show that people have a fragile hold on life?

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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they won't bear their weight, and these places are not seen.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth; yea, doubtless with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell.What does this excerpt suggest about Edwards’s opinion of society?

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He feels society in general, including many members of the congregation, is more sinful now than ever.

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