Paine's essay "the crisis no.1 what ideas or events does paine use to persuade his audience that the american colonies shoild seek independence?

Thomas Paine began the essay with a plea to his audience to not lose their courage in the "trying times" they were in. He associated British rule in the American colonies with tyranny, which must be resisted despite the cost. He cautioned that time was of the essence in pursuing an outright struggle for independence.  

He balanced the difficulty of the situation with the realistic hope of victory if the American forces planned well and utilized their resources efficiently. Paine also used the idea of religion to persuade his largely religious audience, suggesting British rule might lead to the loss of the religious freedom that the colonists had enjoyed until that time. He advised that the British government was trying to usurp powers that belonged to God alone and expressed the belief that Americans would receive divine assistance in their struggle:  

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.

He used powerful metaphors throughout the text to depict the state of America. He concluded with an expression of hope and confidence in the success of the American colonists' cause: "By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue.

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