"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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