Upon The Burning Of Our Home Analysis
No privacy? No sin? This is how the Puritans lived their day by day lives. Of course everyone is only human, but if they did ever sin or defied one of the 10 Bible commandments the Puritans would punish them by whipping, condeming, branding or execution. There are a few pieces of literature that portrays their religious values and beliefs; their life values. The Crucible, “Upon the Burning of Our Home”, and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, are written by well known Puritans. The Puritans specifically believe that church and state should be separate, because they believed that they didn’t need a middleman to God and they could speak to Him themselves. “Upon the Burning of Our Home” is a poem about Anne Bradstreet waking up to her house being on fire. During this fire her attitude changes from “why”, to “God will take care of it and everything I need will be
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“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” In this sermon he does use very strong metaphors and guilt to get his point across. He is trying to tell his congregation that just because you come to church and do not sin here does not mean that God does not see you sin outside of the church. Not only is he speaking to his congregation he also speaking to all of the people that are not part of his religious faith, he was trying to convert anyone he can by scaring them into telling them that God controls your destiny and he get tired of you he can take it away from you. He quotes the bible and says “Surely thou didst set them in slippery Places; thou castest them down into Destruction. It implies that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected Destruction. As he that walks in slippery Places (Jonathan Edwards).” Like he says it implies that God can drop them at anytime, further in the excerpt it also say that they can drop themselves. Jonathan Edwards attempts to convert others to puritanism makes his beliefs that his religion is the best shines
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” In this sermon he does use very strong metaphors and guilt to get his point across. He is trying to tell his congregation that just because you come to church and do not sin here does not mean that God does not see you sin outside of the church. Not only is he speaking to his congregation he also speaking to all of the people that are not part of his religious faith, he was trying to convert anyone he can by scaring them into telling them that God controls your destiny and he get tired of you he can take it away from you. He quotes the bible and says “Surely thou didst set them in slippery Places; thou castest them down into Destruction. It implies that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected Destruction. As he that walks in slippery Places (Jonathan Edwards).” Like he says it implies that God can drop them at anytime, further in the excerpt it also say that they can drop themselves. Jonathan Edwards attempts to convert others to puritanism makes his beliefs that his religion is the best shines