1. Imagery: Fire, water, insects. Jonathan Edwards uses phrases like, "fiery pit, dreadful pit of glowing flames, hell's wide gaping mouth open" to describe the wrath of God towards the people who have forgotten to thank God for his grace. Images of water are created when Edwards says, "floods of God's vengeance, fiery floods of fierceness", and that represents that God could "withdraw his hand from the flood-gate" and all of his rage would be unleashed on the people. The final image he creates is when he talks about insects. He says, "loathsome insect over the fire, cast into the fire, wrath toward you burns like fire" to show that the people who have forgotten about God are the insects, being burned by the fire, which is God's wrath.
3. "O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath s provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hand by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing lau down of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment."
5. Reasons:
I chose the picture of a marshmallow being burnt over a fire. The marshmallow represent the people who have forgotten about their faith to God, the fire represents the sins and unfaithfulness of the Puritans, and the stick holding up the marshmallow represents God because he can unleash his wrath, or drop the marshmallow. The flood is the fury of God that is being unleashed onto everyone. A spiderweb is fragile and can break easily, which represents the unfaithful people.
6.Reflection: In our group collage, we have a monster with it's mouth wide open, a flood and an insect being swallowed up by flames. God represents the monster, flood and fire and is swallowing the insects, which represent the Puritans. Then at the bottom we have a quote that says, "If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would upon you with omnipotent power."
6.Reflection: In our group collage, we have a monster with it's mouth wide open, a flood and an insect being swallowed up by flames. God represents the monster, flood and fire and is swallowing the insects, which represent the Puritans. Then at the bottom we have a quote that says, "If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would upon you with omnipotent power."
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