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How Does Edwards Have An Impact On A Christian Audience

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Often in Sermon writers persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or more fashion. Such in the case in the Johnathan Edwards "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" where he sinners Edward wanted to affect his audience by appealing to their fears pity and vanity. Edwards had a(n) powerful impact on his Puritian audience because tone encouraging, imagery and visual and symbolic figurative language. Foremost, Edward had an powerful impact on his Puritian audience. For example in paragraph 1 Edward explains how easy it is to crush a bug God can easily crush or even let his hands go with you. Also in paragraph J.E talked about how God is unconcerned of the sinners evildoing. Edward states to the sinners to be considered of your wrong doings because God won't over look your sins . You are one step ahead from being casted down to hell. Throughout the Sermon I will say Edward success impacted his audience with a powerful tone, but in the beginning of the Sermon the background of the story say the Sermon had s huge effect. Some people sobbed and also wailed. …show more content…

For instance, when he stated in paragraph 6 "Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the spirit of God upon your soul, all you that were never born again, and made new creatures and raised from dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light life, are in the hands of an angry God". This shows if you don't change when God is asking you to, you will never rise again because your being disobedient. God will crush you in the palm of his hands. Just like you crushed his harmless creature. The Sermon also informs the sinner that if you don't apply by God rules you will be death

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