“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string; and justice directs the bow to your heart, and strains at the bow: and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry

God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made

drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty

power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new

creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced

light and life, are in the hands of an angry God. However you may have reformed your life in many

things and many have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and

closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but His mere pleasure that keeps you from being this

moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.”

1.What images (metaphors) does the author use to describe humans?
2.What feeling is the author trying to cause in his listeners?
3. Lines 27-38 Paraphrase what is said.