Question

Read the following excerpt from Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Identify its purpose.

"O sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell." (1 point) Responses
To inform To inform
To express To express
To analyze To analyze
To persuade To persuade
To entertain

Answer 1

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The purpose of this excerpt from Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is to persuade.

Answer 2

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The purpose of this excerpt from Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is to persuade.

Answer 3

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The purpose of the excerpt from Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is to persuade the audience. Edwards uses strong and fearful language to emphasize the danger that sinners are in and to persuade them to repent and turn to God to avoid his wrath.