Answer: to scare people into believing god
Explanation: his use of pathos is what scared people into religion. it gave people an image on what could happen if they didn’t worship god. God could just drop them into the firey pits of hell if he wanted but his hands held people and since all people are born sinners in the Puritan view they believed that if they didn’t worship god that they’d be d@mned to h3ll for eternity but if they did worship him they could very well go to heaven. edwards was a religious fanatic that wanted people to believe and if they didn’t do everything by the Puritan view it angered him