Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God Analysis

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Both “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” and “Upon the Burning of Our House” are similar because they are both have mentions of God and they are different because one is the story of a real life experience, while the other is a sermon, and the story of a person’s experience shows her concern about having attachment to material possessions and the sermon tells about the wrong in having attachment to material things. For example, the first line of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards says “So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell.” This is showing relation to the Puritan religion and God. Also, in Bradstreet’s poem, “Thou hast an house on high erect,” is referring to heaven which is