1. Edwards was a pastor during the Great Awakening. This is the time period when people were reviving their faith. His goal is to persuade the people to be reborn and revive their faith.
2. By "natural men" he means the natural progression of all men and their faith is that they are going to sin no matter what they believe. What differentiates you from everyone else is how you handle it and if you are reborn.
3. Abate means to succumb to the wants of the other party, or make the other party happy.
4. Edwards uses this anaphora to provide structure for his oratory, and to emphasize the existence of these things.
5. The clause rewords the previous statement to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Example: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath.
6. Repeating the word and captures the audience's attention and emphasizes the effect that is being had on the situation.
7. Edwards uses semicolons because his statement was all one thought and he didn't want it separated. He uses "not willingly" to make it clear to the reader that they should take none of these things for granted because they don't have to provide for them, yet they do anyways.
8. He develops the simile by first stating the simile and then describing the object that God's wrath is being compared to (dammed waters). The power of the imagery is capable of putting fear into the listener and making it easier to persuade them. He uses imagery to stress the potential power that God has the ability to bestow upon them.
9. Yes, we notice a progression in the three paragraphs, as the imagery as the imagery gets more severe in each paragraph. The point he is making through the imagery is that at any given moment, God could let go and stop supporting you.
10. Edwards uses pathos in his whole speech, as he attempts to scare the audience into being reborn.
11. Edward's tone in his speech is very fierce and serious about his subject. He constantly addresses the audience in a way that suggests that they are worthless. He constantly states that gods wrath will send you to hell on an instant.after the first page, his tone goes from a convincing tone, to more of an angry tone.
12. The texts meant to be heard are written so that they seem to single people out in the audience. He directs his words straight to the audience and then goes into extreme detail of what god will do to the sinners. "O sinners! Consider the fearful danger you are in." The texts meant to be read are more calm get convince the reader that they are no good. "If God withdrew his hand, nothing would keep you up."
13. Yes, this speech is very persuasive. He constantly is describing God's wrath which puts fear into the audience. Anyone that is fearful of something will believe what they hear about it. A persuasive text to me is a text that without a doubt convinces you to go to the authors side of the argument
14. I believe that that kind of response came shortly after he directed all of his descriptions of God's wrath directly to the audience. He addressed them as sinners and then told them what God does to sinners.
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