A fire and brimstone preacher, Jonathan Edwards was a stalwart Puritan and much of his Calvinist background is apparent in the frightening imagery of his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In fact, the image of the bottomless pit of hell whose fiery floods wax high enough to burn the gossamer thread that holds the unworthy souls over it evoked so much terror in the congregation of Edwards that women fainted and men became terrorized and trembled. This sermon of Edwards is constructed around a passage from Deuteronomy in the Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible: "Their foot shall slide in due time." Using the metaphor of a slippery slide, Edwards, at a revival where his famous sermon was given, points to the dangers of spiritual sliding. The yawning abyss waits for the sinners, whose wickedness makes them "heavy as lead," and only the "mere pleasure" of God keeps them from burning in the images of "fiery floods" and "fire of wrath." The image of a "bow" for God's wrath that can easily bend and send forth its arrow is an unnerving one, indeed, as the "slender thread" dangling near the "flames of divine wrath" which can singe it at any moment.
A federal case in Texas would begin in a US Court of Appeals for Circuit Five. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth circuit handles appeals from district courts in Texas Louisiana and Mississippi.
The Han, Roman and Gupta empires all fell do to invasion. A strong, loyal army is necessary to protect the empire from invasion. All of these empires were first weakened by a succession weak governments. The trust and faith in the government was eroded over time. Internal strife by the people because of declining abilities of the government to govern weaken the state. The government should try to prevent internal rebellions by maintaining good governance over the people.
