"O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of fire of wrath, voked and incensed a much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder, and you have...nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do to induce God to spare you one moment." (Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God)
The tone of this passage can best be described as
angry
threatening
satirical
divine
3 points
QUESTION 3
"Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men--and what multitude there might be of them they knew not...they could have little solace or content in respect of any outward objects." (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation: Book1, Chapter IX)
The perspective of the preceding passage is