# data[].attributes.body
In “On the Burning of our House” Anne Bradstreet shows that while she is upset about her house burning, she shows her devotion to god to saying that her house always belonged to him and her true resting place is in heaven.

# data[].attributes.body
In “Verses Upon The Burning House”, the author explains how her house really belonged to her husband, and her real house is waiting in Heaven.

# data[].attributes.body
In the poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666” she talks about how her house belongs to god. Anne is sad about her house burning down but she accepts it because she realizes that her real house is up in heaven. “That dunghill mists away may fly.

Thou hast a house on high erect

Frameed by that mighty Architect,

With glory richly furnished,

Stands permanent though this be fled.

It‘s purchased and paid for too

By Him who hath enough to do.

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 treasure lies above. “

# data[].attributes.body
“In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, the total depravity of man, and the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, they stressed the importance of personal religious experience.” Puritans believed that God is almighty and necessary for salvation. They led modest lives in the hopes for salvation. This is why Bradstreet was not worried about her house burning down. She was not attached to it in a material sense.

# data[].attributes.body
Puritans vauled a patriarchal and subservient familial life. Bradstreet, a leader of Puritan poetry, said this, “

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so perseve.” In her poem “To my beloved Husband”

# data[].attributes.body
Another key point in the Puritan belief system to the pure devotion towards there loved ones. An example of that in the poem is the way the author in “to my beloved husband” spoke about her in a loving and compassionate way.

# data[].attributes.body
Love God, love love, love people, love life.............

# data[].attributes.body
“Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just.

It was his own, it was not mine,

Far be it that I should repine” this can relate to Puritan beliefs because she is saying that even though she is in sorrow of her house burning, the house really belonged to god and it was just her temporary house before she went to heaven. She is saying that everything belongs to god.

# data[].attributes.body
In “to my dear and loving husband” she talks about her love for her husband and how nothing else matters. In the quote “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,” she says she prizes him more than gold which is worth alot. She says the heavens award her praying and puritans relied on faith and following the Bible.

# data[].attributes.body
I like the poem “my dear and loving husband” because she’s writing about how pure her love is for her husband and how important he is to her and I feel like this really important.
Rylee O’Shannon

# data[].attributes.body
“In the early decades of the seventeenth century some groups of worshipers began to separate themselves from the main body of their local parish church where preaching was inadequate and to engage an energetic “lecturer,” typically a young man with a fresh Cambridge degree, who was a lively speaker and steeped in reform theology. Some congregations went further, declared themselves separated from the national church, and remade themselves into communities of “visible saints,” withdrawn from the English City of Man into a self-proclaimed City of God.” This paragraph explains that people felt that their church wasn’t enough for them and separated themselves from their churches. They wanted to do things their way. They wanted gods GRACE. They were so devoted to getting gods grace they didnt feel their church was enough

# data[].attributes.body
In the poem “My Dear and Loving Husband”, the author Anne explains how pure the love for her husband was, which is made clear in the poem.

# data[].attributes.body
In the poems, we see that she holds God above everything and anything that happens around her is the doing of God.

# data[].attributes.body
In “My Dear and Loveing Husband” Anne Bradstreet uses references to riches and gold and how little they mean to her compared to the love of her husband. This mirrors Puritan beliefs in that it shows how puritans value human connections and connections to the earth and God compared to material possessions.

# data[].attributes.body
Another characteristic that would easily make Anne Bradstreet a Puritan is the fact that she accepts god’s fate. One huge characteristic of puritans is that they understand that everything that happens is part of god’s plan or god’s intentions, so when her house burned down in “On the Burning of My House” Anne almost accepts it to the point where her house can be considered god’s house, this makes evident proof that Bradstreet is a Puritan.

# data[].attributes.body
One value of puritans was their house. They often traveled with their entire family.
Kaylee S

# data[].attributes.body
“Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in let’s so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.”

Bradstreet prizes her husband over materialistic things

She hopes that she ends up in heaven with her husband

Everything she does on earth is to get to heaven

Puritans lived life according to the Bible so they could reach heaven

# data[].attributes.body
Puritan's value of god over material things is perfectly presented in Bradstreet's “Verses on the Burnng Of Our House.” This is exemplified in the quote, “Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just.

It was his own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should repine”

# data[].attributes.body
Puritans valued family and did various things that held a certain family structure, especially a connection with God

# data[].attributes.body
One value of puritans is not placing too much value in material items. This was because they valued religious ideas such as faith more.

Kaylee S

# data[].attributes.body
Anne Bradstreet would easily be considered one of the leaders of puritans in the sense that she prizes her own possessions and love more than money and value, a good example of this is in her poem “To My Dear And Loving Husband” when she said I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,”. This when examined by most humans could easily be determined that Bradstreet prizes love over money. This directly relates with the basic Puritan thought of love over anything, once again showing my point.

# data[].attributes.body
One of the puritans main devotions are towards there god and with that they pride themselves with there self control and good morals.

# data[].attributes.body
In the “on the burning of the house” Anne talks about how everything she owns is Gods and she was accepting that her house and all her things were burning because her real house was heaven and that’s the beliefs of puritans. “ 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 treasure lies above.” in this quote it shows that she’s accepting and she says that her home is heaven.

# data[].attributes.body
“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold.” This shows how Bradstreet values love and relationships more than gold and wealth which can relate to Puritanism because they were modest and were more about relationships with God and one another rather than gold.

# data[].attributes.body
Anne Bradstreet would be considered a leader because she was a very powerful voice for the puratins
Rylee O’Shannon

# data[].attributes.body
Puritans in the New World consisted of families and had many family values which could be a reason why Bradstreet wrote “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

# data[].attributes.body
“Yet by His gift is made thine own;

There’s wealth enough, I need no more;
Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store.
My hope and treasure lies above”

Bradstreet accepts that her house is gone because it was not her house it is God’s house

This relates to a Puritan belief that everything on earth belongs to God