Edwards'is, to be
frank, overwhelming. Rather
than develop sentences that are simple to understand, especially for
people
who are only listening to him and cannot see his text in front of them, Edwards seems
to
purposefully try to overwhelm his listeners with evidence of their own
destruction in an effort
to compel them to change. For an example of this
overwhelming sentence structure, we can
actually look at the very first
sentence of the text:
In
this Verse is
threatned the Vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, that
were
Gods visible People, and lived under Means of Grace; and that,
notwithstanding all Gods
wonderful Works that he had wrought towards that
People, yet remained, as is expressed,
ver. 28. void of
Counsel, having no Understanding in them; and that, under
all the
Cultivations of Heaven, brought forth bitter and poisonous Fruit; as in the two
Verses
next preceeding the Text.
He
divides clauses with
semicolons, clauses thatwith
minor...
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