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Jonothan Edwards

power to eliminate the evil man at any given moment. In one statement Edwards says, "What are we that we should think to stand before Him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles and before Whom the rocks are thrown down!" (Edwards, 290), which clearly shows God's great strength and man's irrelevance and weakness. Edwards also explains that evil man, "....are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell..." (Edwards, 290). Any reader can clearly see that Edward's thought of God in a very competent manner while man was extremely vile and feeble. Edward's points were very straightforward and firm. A reader could see and feel Edward's imagery very effectively about God being in a much higher level than man.Secondly, Jonathan Edwards gives his accounts of a vengeful and almighty God with an even more powerful use of imagery in middle parts of his sermon. Edwards states that, "God has so many different , unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell..., to destroy any wicked man, at any moment..." (Edwards, 293). Edwards shows a great respect for God's power and he portrays God as being a less compassionate God as most religious persons view Him today. Edwards describes God as in a position of great superiority by saying that God has the weak and evil man in the palm of His hands. Edwards states, "God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of the pit of hell one moment...," and concludes his view by stating that God, "...has made no promises either of eternal life....or preservation from eternal death...." (Edwards, 294). Any audience of Edward's words could easily see how much Edwards thought man had owed a great deal of reverence to God. When Edwards stated that, ".....natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell...," (Edwards,294) a view of God's supremacy was very vivid. Edwards used parallelism to drive his audience to see and f...

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