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Essential Question: How do Puritan beliefs have an affect on both the style and content of Puritan literature?

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Essential Question: How do Puritan beliefs have an affect on both the style and content of Puritan literature?

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Answer: With any literature, the beliefs of the writer and the beliefs of the writer's community influence the literature produced. In this case, with the Puritans, there was an almost overwhelming belief in God and in the concept of Hell. This pertains directly to the content of Puritan literature because this, in large part, was what they were writing about. As previously noted, their writing was focused on faith. Their beliefs also relate to their style of writing because, not only were the writers attempting to be clear and concise in order to get the message of God across, but as their lives were focused on God, there was not much room for imagination, creativity, or entertainment in their minds or in their writing. 

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Answer: With any literature, the beliefs of the writer and the beliefs of the writer's community influence the literature produced. In this case, with the Puritans, there was an almost overwhelming belief in God and in the concept of Hell. This pertains directly to the content of Puritan literature because this, in large part, was what they were writing about. As previously noted, their writing was focused on faith. Their beliefs also relate to their style of writing because, not only were the writers attempting to be clear and concise in order to get the message of God across, but as their lives were focused on God, there was not much room for imagination, creativity, or entertainment in their minds or in their writing. 

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- Straightforward language

- Focused on faith

- Bradford addressed the reader

-Somewhat detailed/descriptive

- Events were recounted as they occurred, without imagination

- Shallow (what you see is what you get)

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"Squanto was a special instrument sent of God"

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"Squanto was a special instrument sent of God"

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Puritans were simpler than the Church of England 

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Puritans were simpler than the Church of England 

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"Puritans dressed in a plain style and held their simple religious services in undecorated meeting houses."

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Individuals could obtain and internal/emotional connection to God

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Individuals could obtain and internal/emotional connection to God

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"This idea of having an internal emotional experience that brings one to God was a central idea of the Great Awakening"

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A person had to repent and convert to be “born again”

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A person had to repent and convert to be “born again”

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"Edwards maintained that a person had to repent and convert to be born again"

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It was somewhat necessary that if you are capable, you assist those who are not

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It was somewhat necessary that if you are capable, you assist those who are not

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“And of these, in the time of most distress...worthy to be remembered”

The Lord upheld the domestic cretakers

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“as by God’s good providence they did”

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 In hearing the discourse, you have the potential to be saved by God’s  mercy 

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 In hearing the discourse, you have the potential to be saved by God’s  mercy 

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Vivid description of how amazing the day God opens his doors to sinners
“And now you have an extraordinary opportunity... and rejoicing in the hope of the Glory of God”

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Many people don’t realize that it is God himself saving them, not their own work and religious practices

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Many people don’t realize that it is God himself saving them, not their own work and religious practices

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“You probably are not sensible of this...the means you use for your own preservation”

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You are disgusting in God's eyes --- straightforward with the way they believe it to be

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You are disgusting in God's eyes --- straightforward with the way they believe it to be

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“You are ten times more abominable in his eyes”

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"natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of hell"

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“all your righteousness...than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock.”

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"it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in ever lasting destruction."

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Pretty much everyone is condemed to hell and they can’t do anything about it.