Jonathan Edwards was a preacher around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692, begging people to come to the church, and instead of telling the people to come repent, he threatened them, preaching what all would happen to them if they did not Love God. There is a Movie called The Crucible, and it is a movie where a village is hiding from witchcraft. A group of girls in the village want to play with witchcraft, and when they get caught, they start to freak out, because the punishment for being caught in witchcraft, was death. They started blaming other people, begging the judges that they were being forced, and being Possessed by men. At the very end, a man, one of the main characters, is accused of witchcraft, and he must make a choice of either giving up, and posting his entire name in the town to be shunned, or to be killed. I won't give the ending away, but I will just say that it was a very interesting movie, and I learned so much about that time. Here is a part of Jonathan Edward's Sermon from his speech 'From the Hands of The Sinners', a perfect example showing his threats of what will happen to them, the threats to keep them in his church.
"The bow of wrath is bent, arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it's nothing but mere pleasure of anger, without any promise or obligation at all that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood."
