One of the way Edwards convinces people is by using imagery. He emphasizes the fierceness of God to stir fear in his audience and describes in detail the horrible consequences they would have to endure. His passages describe in detail how a sinner would've damned himself to suffer a "furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit" and would be "held over in the hand" of the God whose wrath they had provoked. In other words, he compares the sinner's pain
One of the way Edwards convinces people is by using imagery. He emphasizes the fierceness of God to stir fear in his audience and describes in detail the horrible consequences they would have to endure. His passages describe in detail how a sinner would've damned himself to suffer a "furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit" and would be "held over in the hand" of the God whose wrath they had provoked. In other words, he compares the sinner's pain