Compare And Contrast To My Dear And Loving Husband And Upon The Burning Of Our House

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In the poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet and the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards have different images of God and the purpose for writing their writings. Bradstreet and Edwards have different styles of writing and a different images of god. Bradstreet has more of a peaceful view on things. Edwards has a very serious view on things.
Bradstreet’s image of God was peaceful like he had given her everything she had always wanted and he would always be there for her. “And to me my God my heart did cry/To strengthen me in my distress” (pg. 119 line 8-9). Even when her house was burning down she believed that god was with her and he did it for a reason. She looked to him for guidance through her tough times. Edwards’ image of God was serious he believed that god was going to send you to hell no matter what you had a very slim chance of making it to heaven. “They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of …show more content…

“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/Or all the riches that the East doth hold” (pg. 116 line 5-6). She wrote her feelings about her husband to express her love for him she didn’t know that they would be published. They make her look like kind of a bad puritan for putting her husband over God. Edwards wrote this sermon to persuade a group Puritans that God chooses your fate and you can’t control it. “And there is no other reason to be/given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but/that God’s hand has held you up” (pg. 127 line 50-61). He persuades the people at his church that God will do whatever he wants with you, he defines your life. They both believed that God chooses what happens in your life Bradstreet chose to believe that God would help you out in the end, Edwards believed that God chooses your fate and he does what’s right whether it helps you or

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