The infamous line from John Muir's "The Calypso Borealis- 'Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp" shows an example of dialect.
Since Edward has used a descriptive language to draw the attention of audience it is always a way which fuels curiosity and desperation and same happened with the audience of Edward, they got desperate and confused.
Edward has painted the image of God as a ruthless guard who at any time is ready to punish and humanity a bunch of creature whom God does not love as creature but He has the scale of punishment only.