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  1. Oct 2020
    1. Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over great part of this congregation: let everyone fly out of Sodom. Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed

      The final call to action here really highlights what Edwards is trying to convey to his audience that they must embrace god and must do so with passion and be very emotional in their devotion to God. And in doing so they would be safe from the wrath of God as they would be proving that they have no reason to be judged in a manner where God may send them to hell rather they would provide passionate devotion to God. With this call to action would you change the way you practiced your religion? I would defiantly as he makes strong points thought that do feel like a call to change and action.

    2. There is reason to think, that there are many in this congregation now hearing this discourse, that will actually be the subjects of this very misery to all eternity. We know not who they are, or in what seats they sit, or what thoughts they now have: it may be they are now at ease, and hear all these things without much disturbance, and are now flattering themselves that they are not the persons, promising themselves that they shall escape.

      Edwards here makes the strongest connection to his audience in the document as he specifically points out people who may have not been getting his message. In pointing out people who may be listening but change nothing or simply choose to not believe him are the most likely to simply put themselves in a position where God will not allow them to escape. I feel that at the time this sermon was given there were defiantly people listening to his sermon that just though about how all he was saying were lies and to stick to the old ways of thinking, but I wonder how these people were effected when this truly blew up with the great awakening and if they themselves had to come to terms with accepting this new way of thinking or being push away. It is an interesting point because many people were effected by the sermon some fainting others crying but what about the ones who thought it was all some big hoax?

    3. there is no other reason to be given why you han’t gone to hell since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship: yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you don’t this very moment drop down into hell.

      Here Edwards is really pointing out how worship of god had not been as devoted or as devoted as it should be and with this the type of worship being done is really that of just being there with no real purpose. This is important as many important figures and the overall Great Awakening was really brought upon with the idea that people were not as passionate about religion and due to this they were likely to go to hell. This rethinking on how worship should happen with it being more passionate and emotional caused for the religious movement and I think that if it had not been for these sermons that people would not have been as inclined to accept these ideas as there would have been no scare tactics to persuade them to think otherwise.