Edwards uses the phrase “oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! ” in order to
show what might happen if the reader disobeys edwards.
describe what endless suffering looks and feels like.
illustrate that this type of suffering is unimaginable.
prove that very few people have survived limitless suffering.

Highlight all instances of parallel structure. there is no longer any room for hope. if we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight!