Peyton Durham
Nick Loftin
1.) Edwards believes that his congregation has lots of sinners. He gives this speech 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.
3.)Abate in the paragraph means to obtain God's wrath by making him angry, or to extend his anger.
4.)He is telling them how close they are to messing up just enough to anger God enough to condemn you to hell.
5.) The italicized clause is there to further explain the world of misery that Edwards is talking about.
6.) Once God lets go of you and you fall to hell there is no hope. You have no chance of making anything better.
7.) Edwards uses semicolons to continue his thoughts. He repeats "not willingly" because without God nothing would be possible. God is responsible for all your wrong doing and without him you would not be alive.
8.) He develops the simile by stating it, and what he is comparing God's wrath to. The power of the imagery is used to put fear into the audience and make it easier to persuade people to better themselves.
9.) The images describe what is going to happen to the people who are continuing to sin. The progression of images is ultimately leading to God condemning or giving up on them.
10.) Edwards is the ethos, he is very credible because he is very spiritually strict. He is preaching the logos to the people in hope to try to scare them to do the right thing. The people represent the pathos because they are the audience in which Edwards preaches to.
11.) Edward's tone is very threatening by telling the people they will go to hell if they do not listen. Yes, towards the end of the story his tone changes to a very encouraging tone. He is encouraging the people to be better followers of God so they too can experience the good that God can do.
12.) Texts meant to be heard are usually very threatening, attempting to persuade the audience to do something or better themselves. Text meant to be heard are supposed to be applied to life in order to better yourself, while text meant to be read doesn't necessarily apply to you, but the audience as a whole.
13.) Edward's text is persuasive by having a very assertive tone and giving very harsh examples of what will happen to his audience if they do not listen.
14.) The parts in his sermon where Edwards spoke of God condemning the people to hell unless they proved to be better followers. This most likely made these people emotional by telling them what the outcome of their lives would be if they did not do as God pleased.
15.) This picture represents God holding his people by what Edwards refers to as their "strings". If the people do not please God, then he will let go of their string and let them fall to their inevitable fate.
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