Author: Jonathan Edwards
Date Of Work: July 8th, 1741
A Model Of Christian Charity
Author: John Winthrop
Date Of Work : 1630 On Board The Arabella
Purpose Of A Model Of Christian Charity
The Model of Christian Charity has many purposes. One purpose is to explain that people should be care for the people in need. Winthrop explains that God wants people to treat others like they would like to be treated. Also, a person passes up a person in peril then that person should be cursed. “He who shutteth his ears from hearing the cry of the poor, he shall cry and shall not be heard." Another purpose of this is to explain that God is a merciful God and loves all. “Christ, by whom all the body being knit …show more content…
together by every joint for the furniture thereof, according to the effectual power which is in the measure of every perfection of parts, a glorious body without spot or wrinkle; the ligaments hereof being Christ, or his love, for Christ is love (1 John 4:8). So this definition is right. Love is the bond of perfection.” Winthrop states that God is love and loves all.
Purpose Of Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God
Sinners in the Hands Of An Angry God had mainly one purpose.
It was to preach to his audience about the horrors of hell, the dangers and horrors of sin, and the terrors of being lost, sometimes without knowing it. Jonathan Edwards urges everyone who do not follow God`s call to receive to forgiveness. He wanted everyone to respect and follow God, or God will show no mercy. Another purpose was to incite religious fervor in the hearts of his audience by telling them that they all had sinned. His goal was to cause them to repent and turn back to God
Summary Of A Model Of Christian Charity
God had created the world so that there are two different types of people the fortunate and the less fortunate. This is to show who is merciful and who has no heart. There are two rules that people should follow mercy and justice. Both are distinguished in their act and in their object. For example a person should show mercy to a rich man in some sudden danger or distress, and also doing of mere justice to a poor man in regard of some particular contract. Winthrop explains how a person should show respect and help people in need. He also states that no one should pass up an opportunity to help someone or else that person will be cursed. People are a company that follows Christ, and just because everyone is thousands of miles doesn’t mean everyone is alone but knitted together by love. People should do more service for the Lord and should serve
Him.
Summary Of Sinners In The Hand Of An Angry God
Edwards preaches to his audience the horrors of Hell and the wrath of god to try to make people to turn back to God. He states that God may cast sinners into Hell at any moment and sinners deserve to be casted to hell. Divine justice will not prevent God from destroying the sinner. The sinner, at this moment, will suffer God`s condemnation to Hell. The sinners suffer the torments of Hell without physically being in it. People can`t assume that God is not as angry at them then he is at the people in Hell. At any time God permits, he can send someone to Hell. If not for God`s restraints, the souls of sinners would burn out of control. The sinners should not feel secure even though there are not visible ways of death before them. All the sinners that try to save themselves from Hell`s pains can afford nothing if they continue to reject God. God has never promised to save anyone from Hell, except those that believe in him and don`t reject him.
Three Examples Of Rhetorical Devices In A Model Of Christian Charity
There are many examples of rhetorical devices in a Model of Christian Charity. One example is when Winthrop is talking about love. “Love cometh of God and every one that loveth is born of God, so that this love is the fruit of the new birth, and none can have it but the new creature. Now when this quality is thus formed in the souls of men, it works like the Spirit upon the dry bones.” Another example is again when he is talking about love. “For patterns we have that first of our Savior who, out of his good will in obedience to his father, becoming a part of this body and being knit with it in the bond of love” Another example of a rhetorical device is when he brings up a well-known event. “Now when the soul, which is of a sociable nature, finds anything like to itself, it is like Adam when Eve was brought to him.” Here Winthrop makes a reference to Adam and Eve which is an event that is well known to everyone.
Three Examples Of Rhetorical Devices In Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God