eel God's vindictiveness by stating that, "God is dreadfully provoked...,"(Edwards,294) and continues by later stating that, "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present..." (Edwards,295). Edwards later states that his view of God as being, "...The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire..., and is dreadfully provoked..., He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast in the fire...." (Edwards, 296). With Edward's use of descriptive pronouns, his audience could feel God's righteousness, fury and displeasure with out any exacerbation. Edwards portrayed a vengeful God with a lot of clarity.Thirdly, Jonathan Edwards also portrayed a vile and evil man throughout his sermon in a very effective manner. Edward's thoughts on a sinful and evil man were very negative. Edwards described man as being wicked and outright evil beings. Edwards states that man, "....deserves to be cast into hell...." (Edwards,291) It was almost as if Edwards had a distaste for the man in general. Edwards describes man in a position of being predestined for the worse by stating that man was, "....already under a sentence of condemnation to hell..." (Edwards, 291). Edwards goes on to state that that , "...wicked men's pains and contrivance they use to escape hell...., do not secure them from hell one moment...) (Edwards 293). It was obvious that Edward viewed man as being very far from worthy to experience a heaven. Edward's opinions about man were so straight forward and strong that he even included mere children in his views of pathetic and evil man without any exceptions in considering their youth. Edwards states that, "...the foolish children of men do miserably delude themselves in their own schemes and in their confidence and in their own strength and wisdom...." (Edwards, 293). Edwards nonchalantly and cold-bloodedly states that, "...The greater...
