Pilgrims by Jodi Losch

Literature has always revealed a great deal about the attitudes and beliefs of different cultures. Puritan authors in the late 17th and early 18th centuries wrote poems, persuasive speeches, stories, and first hand accounts that reveal their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Described especially was the Puritan's deep regard for religion and their fear and love of God.

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Of Plymouth Plantation

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By William Bradford

Sinner in the hand of an angry God

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By Jonathan Edwards

Belief #1- Gods Divine Intervention amongst the people

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Divine intervention is God intervening in the affairs of the world. Divine intervention can be God causing something to happen or God preventing something from happening.

Bradford's persepective

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Bradford believes that God is good and almighty. He believes that the safe passage to the New World was Gods way of saying that the Puritans were doing the right thing and that other people should follow in their footsteps.

These beliefs and the perspective of the author are transferred into Puritan writing and affects not only what the literature is about, but it also affects how the authors writes in order to create the desired response from the reader.

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In Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Johnathon Edwards, the same Puritan beliefs are shown in multiple ways to create a certain reaction from the audience.

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William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" was written in 1630 as a description of Bradford's experiences in the New World.

Style #1- Positive connotation

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Example

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"Being thus arrived in a good Harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered then from all their perils and miseries thereof" (Bradford).

Divine Intervention in this exerpt

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In this passage, it shows that the Puritans thought that God was to thank for their safe travels and arrival in the New World. This shows thier belief in Divine Intervention because to the Puritans, God wanted them to travel to the New World, and thus allowed a safe passage.

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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts

Belief #2- Predestination

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Predestination is the belief that God has already decided whether to save someone (salvation) or send them to Hell. Only a select few were thought to have the opportunity to be saved and everyone else, by definition, will go to Hell.

Style #2- Imagry

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Example

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"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" (Edwards).

Predestination in this excerpt

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From this passage, the Puritan Belief is shown that God is angry with humanity and is holding them like an insect over Hell, and can drop them at any moment. Because the people are already being held over Hell instead of being selected to go to Hell, it shows that God already had intentions to send them to Hell.

Positive connotation in this excerpt

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William Bradford is implying that God is superior, and everything is under his control, but he is also good-natured and will reward humanity when they preform the correct duties. This is positive connotation because God is seen as intervening in a helpful and sympathetic way.

Imagry in this excerpt

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This shows imagery because as Edwards describes Gods thoughts towards humanity, he uses a metaphor, and in this metaphor, you clearly immagine a powerful person holding a spider over a fire, about to let the spider drop.

Audience imparatives

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The main purpose of Bradford's account was to persuade those who remained in England to come to America. He described in detail the benefits of religious freedom. Religion played an extremely important role in the lives of early Puritans. Bradford described how God helps the Pilgrims make their way safely across the perilous waters to safety, and was appealing to the high interest in God's divine intervention for the people. Bradford also described in his documentation the sickness and famine faced by the people and the communal effort to help the suffering. This depicted the Puritans high regard for helping their fellow man. This strong belief in a healthy community was a reflection of their high interest in religion. As a result, Bradfors was trying to perswade the readers of his journal to travel to the New World, just as the Pilgrims did.

Edwards Perspective

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Edwards believes that God is disgusted with humanity and does not care what happens to all but a few select individuals. Bradford believes that almost everyone is going to Hell and there is nothing humanity can do to alter that because God does not care to bother himself in human affairs that do not pertain to him.

Audience imparatives

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Edward's main purpose in this sermon was to show the importance for people to realize how significant his religion is. He thought that everyone would be damned except for a select few, and those few needed to follow the strict religious ideas that he had, so he wanted to persuade people into beleiving the same things as he did. When Jonathan Edwards came along and told everyone they were going to Hell, it scared many people, and this fear made people jump on the band wagon and follow his Puritan religious beliefs in order to become one of the people that God would save.

Despite of their very different styles and content, "Of Plymouth Plantation" and "Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God" both contain a few of the same religious beliefs and have basically the same purpose.

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In Puritan literature, the author used their different perspectives and persuasive techniques to try to convert other people to become Puritans and accept the same beliefs and ideas in which they had.

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As a result, the style and content of Puritan language varied immensely to fit the author's preferred writing style, and conveyed the message in which he wanted to send. Because of this, the content of their literature changed based on the Puritan author and how he thought would best convert people to his religion, but despite the differences, overall the lturature conveyed the same beliefs.

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