Two Tickets to Paradise By: Sumer, Kayla, Tanner, Morgan
Bradstreet explains that God is a helpful God. He is always there for you in your time of need. He will not give you more than you can bear. She calls out to him for strength and to help her in her time of need. "And to my God my heart did cry To strengthen me in my distress and not to leave me succorless." (Line 8-10 Pg14) -Upon the Burning of Our House
Edwards explains that God is more angry at the people who are not born again and are on Earth, than the other people who are already in Hell. He explains how God is angry at you if you are not born again through him. "Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on Earth; yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell." (Line 8-11 Pg. 120) -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believes that God has provided a place for us in Heaven. He paid for it when he sent his son to die for us on the cross. He gave his life for us. "Thou Hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect, with glory richly furnished. Stands permanent though this be fled. Its purchased and paid for too by Him who hath enough to do" (Line 43-46 Pg. 115) -Upon the Burning of Our House Edwards believes that you will live eternity in Hell, with God mad at you if you do not get saved. You need to be born again unto him. "Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your soul; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state if new,and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God." (Line 42-46 pg 122) - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believes that the human body is frail. Your soul is really what matters. When we die our soul will rise to Heaven while our body is still here. All of our earthly things will soon fade away. "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky that dunghill mists away may fly." (Line 41-42 Pg. 115) -Upon the Burning of Our House Edwards says that God can take your life away easily. That it doesn't take a big ball of fire to kill you. It could be something really simple. He explains that you are as frail as a little insect, when it comes to your life. "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you,and is dreadfully provoked." (Line 50-51 Pg. 122) -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believed that God will help you. She believed that her soul and her relationship with God is the only thing important. Things on Earth will quickly fade, but her love for God will last forever. "The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above." (Line 53-54 Pg. 115) "And to my God my heart did cry to strengthen me in my distress and not to leave me succorless." (Line 8-10 Pg.114) -Upon the Burning of Our House Edwards believed that you needed to be born again to be saved from living eternity in Hell. Everyone who is not born again will go to Hell and be tortured for eternity. You can not just act the part of being born again, you really have to live it. The whole point of his sermon was to scare his audience into being born again. "Therefore, let every one that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come..." (Line 105-106 Pg. 125) -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Mather was born on March 19, 1663 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Puritan that became a preacher and a historian that recorded events and cultures in time. He was also the youngest to graduate from Harvard at the age of nineteen. During his life he fathered fifteen children, but only six lived to be adults and only two outlived him. When Cotton was very young he began reading the bible everyday which lead to him becoming a minister over the Second Choice when his father passed away in 1723. After becoming a minister he began writing his works in seven different languages that even included the Iroquois Indian language. Throughout his lifetime he published three hundred eighty-two works.
Satisfaction in God "And now, let all our delight in, and all our value and fondness for our enjoyments, be only, or mainly, upon such a divine score as this. As far as any of our enjoyments lead us unto God, so far let us relish it, affect it, embrace it, and rejoyce in it: "O taste, and feed upon God in all;" and ask for nothing, no, not for life itself, any further than as it may help us, in our seeing and our serving of our God." This is a piece from Cotton Mather's work titled "Satisfaction in God". In his work he explained how nothing else matters in life other than God. He talks about how you should praise him and ask of nothing in return. His work is very similar to Anne Bradstreet's beliefs.
Cotton Mather's work is very similar to Anne Bradstreet's beliefs. Mather believes in praising God with everything he has. He also believes that nothing else matters to him other than God. He wants to praise God and ask for nothing in return. Anne Bradstreet said in her poem "Upon the Burning of Our House," "A price so vast as is unknown Yet by His gift is made thine own; There s wealth enough, I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store. The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasures lies above."(line 49-55 Pg. 115 - Upon the Burning of Our House) Anne believes that nothing on earth matters to her. She just wants to praise God with everything she has, like Mather.
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Michael Wigglesworth was born on October 18, 1631 in Yorkshire, England. In 1638 his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut because his father had broke his Puritan religion. The Wigglesworth family had to spend their first winter in a cellar hole being that there was no shelter on the land allotted to them. After the harsh conditions Michael's father became sick and couldn't take care of the farm. Not being able to take care of the farm Michael had to come home from his New Haven schooling and help run the farm. After helping with the farm he attended college at Harvard and graduated in 1656. After graduating he took up some extra studying of medicine and was offered to be president of Harvard but refused to because of his health condition from catching the plague. He was married three times and had eight children. People called him a "feeble little shadow of a man". On May 27, 1705 Wigglesworth died in Malden.
The Day of Doom "In vain do they to Mountains say, fall on us and us hide From Judges ire, more hot than fire, for who may it abide? No hiding place can from his Face sinners at all conceal, Whose flaming Eye hid things doth 'spy and darkest things reveal." This is a paragraph from Michael Wigglesworth's poem. It is titled "The Day of Doom". This talks about how you can't hide from God's wrath. It will catch up to you before you know it. His work is very similar to Edwards beliefs.
Michael Wigglesworth's work most sounds like Edwards religious beliefs. The reason they are the same is in both of their writings they believe that if you are not right with God or have him as your savior, you would go to Hell. Michael and Edwards both used the fear of burning in Hell if you were not saved. They both came to the New World to practice their religion.
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