Johnathan Edwards

My favorite excerpt from this poem is this:
He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night - that you were suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.

This is my favorite because in this Edwards shows the Grace of the almighty God, he does not let nonbelievers fall into hell, he holds them up with his righteous right hand and saves them from it. Edwards also says that those who are not saved offend him more than anything else. Edwards in this passage says alot of powerful things to the nonbelievers, he tries to scare them into religion with thoughts of hell and over exaggerations of what hell will be like. Edwards is a powerful writer and his messages hopefully spoke to alot of people.