Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut. He grew up in a very strict and disciplined puritan atmosphere, which would affect him throughout his whole life. Ever since he was young, he showed great interest in the puritan religion by preaching to his friends and his classmates. At the age of twelve, Jonathan Edwards had learned to speak three different languages: Latin, Greek and Hebrew. When he was thirteen, we was accepted to Yale University and graduated as the valedictorian of his class four years later. In 1727, he became an assistant for his grandfather in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he would eventually become the preacher after the death of his grandfather. Unfortunately, during the 1750's, he was dismissed from the church because of his conservative bel

iefs. After he was dismissed, he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he preached to the Natives. Jonathan Edwards was later on accepted as the president in 1757 of what is now Princeton University. Jonathan Edwards is considered one of the leaders of the "Great Awakening" during the 1730's and the 1740's. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which was written during this time, is the most well known out of his numerous works.

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards uses very powerful and convicting imagery words and techniques to describe God's wrath very vividly. He uses similes, metaphors to compare the relationship between us people and God. One example of this is when he talks about how God is ten thousand times more disgusted with us than us being disgusted by the most vicious snakes. (p. 73) It says, "...You are ten thousand times mor

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