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(5 pp) In our politically correct world of a new
century, certainly 'vexing' is hardly the thing to
do, however during the time of the writers we are
examining, Jonathan Swift through Gulliver's
Travels and Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God, we might say that 'vexing
was 'in''(style) in the eighteenth century.
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our politically correct world or a new century, certainly "vexing" is hardly the thing to do, however during the time of the writers we are examining, Jonathan Swift through Gullivers
Travels and Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, we might say that "vexing was in"(style) in the eighteenth century. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) A large number
of early immigrants came to the colonies for religious freedom. Correspondingly, religion played a larger part in their everyday life than it does for some of us today.
Whether religious impacts diminished over time, or secularism became more important, beginning in the 1730s, a strong spirit of revivalism, known as the "Great Awakening," transformed religious life in the
settled colonies. The minister, Jonathan Edwards was a powerful speaker during this period. Revivalism by its very nature is about "shaking" the soul, which would indeed "vex" the
sinner. His method of doing that involved, telling how terrible hell and the anger of God would be: "O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it
is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of fire and wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God. ...You hang by
a slender thread, with the flames of the divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. " Then, as though he
is a Fuller Brush Salesman for God, Edwards says, "And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands
calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners." "Many are daily coming ... How awful it is to be left behind at such a day!" To us
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