What role does the appeal to fear or terror (PATHOS) play in Edward's sermon? How do biblical allusions support the writer's appeal to fear?

Fear plays a
very strong role in Edward's "." Even the title is emotional, as anger--especially in
a powerful figure such as a deity--tends to evoke fear.

Edwards used
biblicalto support his argument that people need to repent immediately and change their sinful
ways or the wrath of God will fall on them. The Bible would have had a strong ethos--or
positive, trustworthy character-- among his congregants. Since it would have been understood by
his listeners as the most highly authoritative work in existence, they would have been
emotionally swayed by its imagery, which Edwards used liberally. He chose images that were not
of lying down in peaceful fields by clear waters nor of ambling in a land flowing with milk and
honey. Instead, he alluded to frightening events, such God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
in Genesis 19, writing:

haste and escape for your
lives 
look not behind you escape to the mountains lest you be consumed 

Edwards also alluded to Luke 16:24, in which Jesus tells of the
rich man Lazurus tormented by hellfire, writing:

The wrath
of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is
made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and
glow.