Consider the image and analogies utilized by Edwards throughout the sermon. What are themes communicate by the image and analogies that Edwards...

As the
basis for his sermon, "," Johnathan Edwards uses the Bible verse Deuteronomy 32:35,
which reads: 

"Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay.
In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming
quickly" (NIV).

Edwards uses many analogies and
images to illustrate his main theme, namely, that the unrepentant man is subject to God's
wrath,which is greater than any earthly king's power. The only way to escape this wrath is to
accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a mediator between the sinner and God. He says that the
only thing keeping back this wrath is God's mercy. According to Edwards, many men flatter
themselves with the thinking that they are good and can, by their actions, strive to escape
God's wrath, but this is a delusion. 

The primary images Edwards uses are of
water and fire. These two images are repeated in several analogies. 

John 3:18: He that believeth not is condemned already. So that
every...

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