The use of a biblical quotation at the end of the sermon strengthens edwards’s argument by
a. associating it with an authority respected by his audience.
b. appealing to the audience’s love of poetry.
c. changing the tone of the sermon.
d. emphasizing edwards’s point about god’s mercy.

abater   ambary   ambery   baryta   baryte   bemata   betray   jarvey   ramate   ramjet

explanation:

those are all the possible words

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.