2nd Rough Draft

In the "Sinners of the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards uses persuavise language to represent that God is powerful. He uses the words flood and water figuratively when he is speaking about vengence to represent God's power. Jonathan Edwards uses figurative language to show that humans cannot control floods, but God has the power to do so. He is also showing how great God's power is. As much as they cannot control floods and water they also cannot control Gods vengence. The sinner believes that his fate is completely in God's hands. The sinner believes that God has the decision to deliever the punishment or not, just like he has the ability to control floods and water.

Rough Draft

The quote I chose shows that God is understanding and will hold back on punishment when you realize what you did wrong and feel guilty. God is holding back from delivering his punishement. He is doing this because the person feels very guilty and God is taking pleasure in it so he decides not to deliver the punishment. To show that God has power, he uses the words flood and water. These words are taken figuratively. Also, God is controlling his power by using the words withheld and holds back. These words represent him controlling his power and deciding when to use it. The person realized what he did was wrong and felt guitly so with Gods controlling powers he decided to get rd of his punishment.

Quotation Analysis Assignment

"the floods of God's vengeance have been withheld; but your gulit in the meantime is constantly increasing, and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, that holds the waters back."- Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
God is holding back from delivering punishement. You continue to feel guilt and God takes pleasure in that so he holds back the punishment.
The words flood and water are taken figuratively. The water represents Gods has power.
Withheld and holding back represents God controlling his power and deciding when to release it.
Topic sentence- The quote I chose shows that God is understanding and will hold back on punishment when you realize what you did wrong and feel guilty

"City Upon A Hill"

According to the Puritans, what made up a Utopian society was them being free from sin, pain, and guilt. Also a place where they could practice their faith freely. John Winthrop suggest that they should have a story made and a by-word through the world.  I think that it isn't possible for this kind of society to exist today because nobody and nothing is ever perfect. I think that a Utopian society would be a perfect society with no mistakes or anything, but I don't think that this society would be an ideal reality because everyone makes mistakes at one point in thier life and nobody is perfect.