Comparison And Contrast Of Two Sermons, "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" And "A Message From Hell"

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of the audience to take
advantage of the situation and express the urgency of repentance.
Edwards and Andrews both preach of the darkness and terror in hell
and want to spread the word of Jesus Christ to ensure that those unsaved
can escape this trepidation of hell. Trying to inform the audience of the
same message, these two authors use different means of persuasion. While
Andrews expresses God's love and want for those to repent, Edwards uses
grisly details and preaches that God is angry and wants to castigate the
heinous sinners. Edwards intimidates the congregation and shows the harsh
side of God, while Andrews consoles the lost telling the audience of God's
desire to see everyone in Heaven with him. Although the two pastors use
different methods of conveying their themes, the ideas are similar.
Wishing that the whole audience would accept Jesus Christ as their Savior,
both authors want to elicit a response from them immediately.
Contrasting in word choice, ...

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and an abundance of examples. The difference
in time accounts for some of the diversities in the two sermons because the
language and sentence structure had changed in the 250 years between these
religious teachings. Andrews' jaded and hackneyed elementary sentence
structure shows that his message will be simple and succinct, displaying
the consequences of not accepting Christ and then explaining how to go
about accepting Christ. The vast amount of imagery applied in "A Message
from Hell" describes to the audience the reality of hell; he does not hide
the terror and grieving that belongs there. Andrews uses a modicum of
anaphora in his sermon to emphasize and add focus to his ...

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