Jonathan Edwards, a Yale-educated Congregational minister, warns about the wrath of God in his speech Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God during the Great Awakening. He serves his purpose of having his audience, Christian sinners of his church, obey God by taking on an authoritative stance as a minister. He appeals to their value of religion in order to evoke feelings of terror. He attempts to persuade his audience into staying loyal to God by noting the negative consequences of sinning, such as suffering the wrath of God, to elicit fear into them. The assertion Edwards utilizes scares the audience into being afraid of sinning. Edwards elicits strong belief into this one statement so that the audience also believes it to be true. This statements
