"Sinners in the Hands of an Anger God" Questions 1-4a&b

1a.) Edward says that people think that is their good state of their body constitution, their care of their own life, and the means you use for your own preservation, but Edward is saying that it is really god who is keeping you from dying and falling into hell.

1b.) When he compares the people to a falling rock, he is saying that if God let you go and you were falling, that your good health does not matter. You sins are to heavy and your great health is not even close to enough to keep you from falling. You would die imideitly if god were to get anger at you and let you go. You would be dead, empty, like the husk after the grain is taken out of it.

2a.) The earth and the sun are elements that Edwards lists as "not willingly" serving the sinner.

2b.) He says rough winds, a dreadful storm, big with thunder. The another element he uses is a whirlwinds.

3a.) They they must have a change in heart, by the might power of the SPirit of God upon your souls, all you that were never born agan, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new.

3b.) Edward tells them how that they are like spiders being hung over a pit of hell, and that god would just like to cast them into the fire. He tells them that God hates them ten thousand times more then they hate the most venomous snake, and that they offend him. And that GOd's hands are the only thing holding you up. That everynight GOd could let you go, but he doesn't even though their is no reason for them to still be here after they have been provoking God all day.
This would scare the people because they are thought of as only bugs and that at any moment they could die and not beable to save themselves.

4a.) He starts by telling them that by being hated by god they are in a lot of trouble. That you have provoked God and he hates you as much as he hates anyone else in hell. That you are on a thin thread with your sins around it making it ready to snap, and when you fall there will be nothing there for you to grab onto, nothing to save you from god's wrath.

4b.)This would be affective in arousing fear because the people there listening to the speach believe in god a lot, and so the thought that he was the one keeping them alive ment he could let go at anymoment. And now that they think god hates them and want to kill them right now, it freaked them out a little because they don't want to die.