Two Tickets to Paradise
By: Sumer, Kayla, Tanner, Morgan
Bradstreet explains that God is a helpful God. He is
always there for you in your time of need. He will not give
you more than you can bear. She calls out to him for
strength and to help her in her time of need.
"And to my God my heart did cry To strengthen me in my
distress and not to leave me succorless." (Line 8-10 Pg14)
-Upon the Burning of Our House
Edwards explains that God is more angry at the people
who are not born again and are on Earth, than the other
people who are already in Hell. He explains how God is
angry at you if you are not born again through him.
"Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers
that are now on Earth; yea, doubtless, with many that are
now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than
he is with many of those who are now in the flames of
hell."
(Line 8-11 Pg. 120) -Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believes that God
has provided a place for us in
Heaven. He paid for it when he
sent his son to die for us on the
cross. He gave his life for us.
"Thou Hast an house on high
erect, Framed by that mighty
Architect, with glory richly
furnished. Stands permanent
though this be fled. Its
purchased and paid for too by
Him who hath enough to do"
(Line 43-46 Pg. 115)
-Upon the Burning of Our House
Edwards believes that you will
live eternity in Hell, with God
mad at you if you do not get
saved. You need to be born
again unto him.
"Thus all you that never passed under a
great change of heart, by the mighty power
of the Spirit of God upon your soul; all you
that were never born again, and made new
creatures, and raised from being dead in sin,
to a state if new,and before altogether
unexperienced light and life, are in the hands
of an angry God." (Line 42-46 pg 122) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believes that the
human body is frail. Your soul
is really what matters. When
we die our soul will rise to
Heaven while our body is still
here. All of our earthly things
will soon fade away.
"Raise up thy thoughts above
the sky that dunghill mists
away may fly."
(Line 41-42 Pg. 115)
-Upon the Burning of Our House
Edwards says that God can take
your life away easily. That it
doesn't take a big ball of fire to
kill you. It could be something
really simple. He explains that
you are as frail as a little insect,
when it comes to your life.
"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."
(Line 50-51 Pg. 122)
-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Bradstreet believed that God will
help you. She believed that her
soul and her relationship with God
is the only thing important. Things
on Earth will quickly fade, but her
love for God will last forever.
"The world no longer let me love,
My hope and treasure lies above."
(Line 53-54 Pg. 115)
"And
to my God my heart did cry
to strengthen me in my distress
and not to leave me succorless."
Edwards believed that you needed
to be born again to be saved from
living eternity in Hell. Everyone
who is not born again will go to Hell
and be tortured for eternity. You
can not just act the part of being
born again, you really have to live it.
The whole point of his sermon was
to scare his audience into being
born again.
(Line 8-10 Pg.114)
"Therefore, let every one that is
out of Christ, now awake and fly
from the wrath to come..." (Line
-Upon the Burning of Our House
-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
105-106 Pg. 125)
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Mather was born on March 19, 1663 in Boston,
Massachusetts. He was a Puritan that became a preacher
and a historian that recorded events and cultures in time.
He was also the youngest to graduate from Harvard at the
age of nineteen. During his life he fathered fifteen children,
but only six lived to be adults and only two outlived him.
When Cotton was very young he began reading the
bible everyday which lead to him becoming a minister over
the Second Choice when his father passed away in 1723.
After becoming a minister he began writing his works in
seven different languages that even included the Iroquois
Indian language. Throughout his lifetime he published
three hundred eighty-two works.
Satisfaction in God
"And now, let all our delight in,
and all our value and fondness
for our enjoyments, be only, or
mainly, upon such a divine score
as this. As far as any of our
enjoyments lead us unto God, so
far let us relish it, affect it,
embrace it, and rejoyce in it: "O
taste, and feed upon God in all;"
and ask for nothing, no, not for
life itself, any further than as it
may help us, in our seeing and
our serving of our God."
This is a piece from
Cotton Mather's work
titled "Satisfaction in
God". In his work he
explained how nothing
else matters in life other
than God. He talks about
how you should praise
him and ask of nothing in
return. His work is very
similar to Anne
Bradstreet's beliefs.
Cotton Mather's work is very similar to Anne
Bradstreet's beliefs. Mather believes in praising God with
everything he has. He also believes that nothing else
matters to him other than God. He wants to praise God
and ask for nothing in return.
Anne Bradstreet said in her poem "Upon the Burning of
Our House," "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 treasures lies above."(Line 49-55 Pg. 115 Upon the Burning of Our House)
Anne believes that nothing on earth matters to her. She
just wants to praise God with everything she has, like
Mather.
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Michael Wigglesworth was born on October 18, 1631 in Yorkshire,
England. In 1638 his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut
because his father had broke his Puritan religion. The Wigglesworth
family had to spend their first winter in a cellar hole being that there
was no shelter on the land allotted to them. After the harsh conditions
Michael's father became sick and couldn't take care of the farm. Not
being able to take care of the farm Michael had to come home from his
New Haven schooling and help run the farm.
After helping with the farm he attended college at Harvard and
graduated in 1656. After graduating he took up some extra studying of
medicine and was offered to be president of Harvard but refused to
because of his health condition from catching the plague. He was
married three times and had eight children. People called him a
"feeble little shadow of a man". On May 27, 1705 Wigglesworth died in
Malden.
The Day of Doom
"In vain do they to Mountains say,
fall on us and us hide
From Judges ire, more hot than
fire,
for who may it abide?
No hiding place can from his Face
sinners at all conceal,
Whose flaming Eye hid things doth
'spy
and darkest things reveal."
This is a paragraph from
Michael Wigglesworth's
poem. It is titled "The Day
of Doom". This talks
about how you can't hide
from God's wrath. It will
catch up to you before
you know it. His work is
very similar to Edwards
beliefs.
Michael Wigglesworth's work most sounds
like Edwards’ religious beliefs. The reason they
are the same is in both of their writings they
believe that if you are not right with God or
have him as your savior, you would go to Hell.
Michael and Edwards both used the fear of
burning in Hell if you were not saved. They
both came to the New World to practice their
religion.
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