The line
"The stout king stands in state
Till a wonder shall appear;"
in the excerpt from the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shows that the knight king is awaiting something miraculous to happen at the Christmas celebration.
In "Sinners in the hands of an angry God", Edwards argue that the natural elements such as the sun, the earth, the air and animals were created by God not to please us and for us to make whatever we want with them. He created them for us to serve Him with them and nothing else.
