What key image does Jonathan Edwards use to frighten his audience in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"

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previous post lucidly addresses a critical component of the fear that Edwards invokes.  I would
like to suggest that Edwards utilizes theof the "now" moment as part of his
motivation.  He is quite intent on suggesting that part of his rationale in the explanation of
God's anger refers to the timing of Colonial sentiments.  At a particular moment in time when
the colonists are driven by economic prosperity and material wealth, the belief in spirituality
is on the decline in colonial life.  It is this precise moment that galvanizes Edwards to speak
his notion of the spiritual truth relating to the notion of salvation and damnation.  It is at
this particular moment in Colonial life where God's bow and arrow are set on the Colonists and
the sooner they change their ways from the secular to the spiritual, the greater the chance that
God's punishment will lessen.