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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Application.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Doctrine that Edwards derives from his chosen Biblical text?
(a) "There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment."
(b) "The Use may be of Awakening to unconverted persons in this congregation."
(c) "There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any one moment, out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."
(d) "Their foot shall slide in due time. "

2. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards says that the unconverted have "no interest in any mediator," (413), what does he mean?
(a) Those who have not been reborn in Christ will not benefit from the covenant between God and humans that Christ embodies.
(b) The unconverted fail to understand the power of Christ to intervene with God.
(c) The unconverted are uninterested in Christ's love and sacrifice.
(d) Those who have not been reborn in Christ are unable to truly love God.

3. In the Application section of his sermon, to what does Edwards compare accepting Christ?
(a) Conversion.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Communion.

4. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, what does Edwards say can make the soul perfectly miserable?
(a) God's power.
(b) Its own sinfulness.
(c) Fear of hell.
(d) Righteous believers.

5. In the metaphor "The bow of God's wrath is bent," (412) to what does Edwards compare God?
(a) An archer.
(b) A performer.
(c) A gift-giver.
(d) A ship's captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Edwards uses the phrase "natural man," what is he referring to?

2. The expression "The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday" (408), which Edwards uses in the Doctrine section of his sermon, could properly be called an example of which literary technique?

3. In the Application section of his sermon, what does Edwards tell the congregants makes them "heavy as lead" (411)?

4. In the Application section of his sermon, what phrase does Edwards keep adding to in order to increase the intensity of his point?

5. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, when Edwards says "as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin was not restrained," (408), this is an example of which literary technique?

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