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Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England and live a life dedicated to the church. These were the people who were first to arrive to America to escape religious persecution. Jonathan Edwards the author and preacher of “from sinners in the Hands of an Angry god” was a preacher in the mid 1700’s was part of the religious “great awakening” to bring the puritan people back to their old ways. Edwards uses two different …

…toward for their afterlife. Edwards uses the two tones to keep the audiences attention while he puts dark and scary images into the minds of the people until they are almost scared to keep on living then tells them that there is a way out of it all and that all they have to do is too start living the puritan life and that Christ will forgive them and will not be sent to hell.