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Comparing Bradstreet And Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

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The two texts, The Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet and Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, the puritans have very many different religious views of God. Such as he is both powerful and sinful. Even though the puritans believed that their views on life socially, politically, and economically was correct, many argue today that there life was sad and miserable. “My sorrowing eyes aside did cast and here and there places spy where oft I sate and long did die.” This quote is from Burning of our house, it is a sinful quote. This quote is sinful because the narrator is saying that when she saw her house burning, she started to feel upset, because she knew she was losing all of her things. The narrator was acting as if she was going to die because she knew she knew she wasn't going to have anything left. …show more content…

This quote is sinful, it is saying that God hates all of us living, and that he is going to send all of us straight to hell. This is another view the puritans have of God. They make it obvious they have much hate for him for how sinful they talk about him. “I blest his name that gave and took, that laid my goods now in the dust.” this quote is from the burning of our house, and it is a powerful view. It is powerful because the quote is saying now that all of her goods that were in her house are all burned and have turned to dust, the narrator is saying stating that she has accepted this fact and is no longer upset over this. The narrator realizes that everything happens for a reason and that God has chose this to happen to her, and when she goes to heaven all of her goods will be with him waiting for

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