Read the excerpt from "sinners in the hands of an angry god."
you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicti
with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually be
spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. so that your punishment will i
be infinite. oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is!
edwards uses the phrase "oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! " in order to
show what might happen if the reader disobeys edwards.
describe what endless suffering looks and feels like.
illustrate that this type of suffering is unimaginable.
prove that very few people have survived limitless suffering.