Entry D: Jonathan Edwards

Imagery: 1. Men held in the hands of God over the pit of hell. 2. The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up. 3. Dreadful pit of the glowing flames. 4. If God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf. 5. There are black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your head. 6. Great waters rising higher and higher. 7. The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow ready on the string. 8. Thin air, and empty shadows. 9. spider web.

My Collage:

This is my collage. It is a 3D collage that I made by myself. It is in a shoe-box and the bottom of it is made up of fire images. Then on the sides of the box are images such as spiderwebs, gray clouds, and other pictures of fire. At the very top of the box I made a spiderweb out of yarn and stapled it to the box. On top of the spiderweb there are images, which you can see, and they are a picture of an eye with flames inside the pupil, a picture in the dead center that reads "hell", there are also pictures of hands which look like they are pulling you into hell.

Favorite Passage: 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 God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang 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 to lay hold 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.

Why: This is my favorite passage because of the strength and the depth of how Jonathon Edwards conveys the fact that before it is too late, you need to earn gods grace, or you will go to hell. The images he applies are just threatening, and scare the readers that hell is not the place you want to be. Edwards does a magnificent job in this passage on scaring the reader of going to hell. In my opinion this passage created the most emotion in me.

Essential Question: What is an American? Referring to Johnathan Edwards, an American is anyone who uses biblical references in their everyday life. For example, Jonathan Edwards says that if you don't earn God's grace, then you will go to Hell. However, if you do earn God's grace, then God will give you the opportunity to go to Heaven.