Sinners in the hands of an angry God
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- The personification is the Earth trembling.
- "What are we that we should think to stand before [God], at whose rebuke the earth trembles...?"
- the fire pent in their hearts is to describe the flames that would consume men. Imagery
- the flames gather and flash about them; . . . the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out."
- the metaphor describes people who oppose God are as weak as bits of wheat before a large wind or dry tinder in a raging fire
- "They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames."
- "The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, ike greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back."
- "The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back."
- he says that people are always prone to committing evil in this simile
- "God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life."
- to emphasize God's power, Edwards begins two sentences with the word "God". repetition
- God looks at people as if they were loathsome insects and in fact hates us more than we would hate such an insect. symbolism
- The most famous image used is that of a "loathsome insect."
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