For #1, despair is a good answer. Fear might be another one.
#2 - yes, that's the message
1. To what emotion does the following passage appeal? Explain your answer.
It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all.
A: Absolute despair. No way out. It projects the idea that there is everlasting sorrow and torment and that's all you have to look forward to.
2. What is the message of this passage from the sermon?
And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God...many that were very lately in the same miserable conditions that your are in, are now in a happy state, with their hearts filled with love to him who has loved them, and washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.
A: The message is that sinners have the opportunity to receive God's forgiveness for their sins.
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