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This 5 page paper presents a literary analysis of this very famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards delivered in July 1741. Edwards used a number of literary strategies in his sermon, including theme, imagery, metaphors, repetition and similes. These was also a pace of pulse associated with the sermon. This essay provides examples of each of these literary strategies. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the great revivalists of the Great Awakening (Yale College). He has been recognized as "a consummate and sophisticated rhetorician and as a master preacher" (Yale College). On July 8,
1741, Edwards delivered a sermon to his congregation, which has been called by some as the best sermon ever delivered in history (Yale College). The title of that sermon was
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Yale College). The sermon left members of the church on their knees asking for forgiveness and fearing everything they did. Edwards used
any number of literary strategies in the construction of this sermon, such as imagery, metaphors, similes and repetition. There was also the pace of the sermon that lent itself to
causing such reactions on its listeners. Edwards used the pace, the pulsation of the sermon, for strategic effects. The Opening has biblical text that illustrates a nightmare vision of apocalypse
thuds. Edwards began in this way: " Their foot shall slide in due time- Deut. 32:35. In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites"
(JonathanEdwards.com). Opening a sermon with a Biblical verse is not uncommon but Edwards uses it to push fear into the hearts of the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications
from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted and ends with a crisply stated doctrine: "God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer,
but will let them go" (Edwards, 1741). In between, he carefully enumerates the four, which gives this part of the sermon a sort of mathematical precision (Gallagher, 1999). Edwards makes
clear that vengeance is Gods and God can cast men into hell anytime He so chooses. Edwards tells the audience that they are natural born sinners and God will thus
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