Jonathan Edwards

"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 is 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 lay 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."

Through the Jonathan Edward's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" he relates three key images. The first is the image of fire and hell. This provokes a fear in the audience of his speech. The second is the mention of spiders (webs) resisting against a falling rock to sinners falling into hell. He also compares us to a spider dangling just being held by a single thread (God's pleasure). The third image is is water. Edwards uses floods, thunderclouds, and a variety of descriptive imagery to instate a fear and anxiety in the reader. The sermon was well written to be persuasive during that time period. In the collage I took a picture of Niagra Falls and turned it red to symbolize the flood and hell at the same time. Then I added the flames in the extend how the falls can be viewed as a flood but also compared to hell with the flames and color. One of the other images used was a broken spider web that symbolizes how the thread the Edwards saus sinners are hanging by could smap at any moment. Lastly, I took a picture of an actual flood and made flames cover most of it to symbolize destruction.