For the majority of Edwards's sermon, the tone is indeed vexed. He uses shockingto try
to convince his audience to turn from their sinful ways and follow Christ. One of the most vivid
images in the sermon is this one:
The God that holds you
over the Pit of Hell, much as one holds a Spider, or some loathsome Insect, over the Fire,
abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his Wrath towards you burns like Fire; he looks upon you
as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the Fire; he is of purer Eyes than to bear to
have you in his Sight; you are ten thousand Times so abominable in his Eyes as the most hateful
venomous Serpent is in ours....and yet 'tis nothing but his Hand that holds you from falling
into the Fire every Moment: 'Tis to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to Hell the
last Night; that you was suffer'd to awake again in this World, after you closed your Eyes to
sleep: and there is no other Reason to be given why you have not dropped into Hell since
you...
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