Compare And Contrast Jonathan Edwards And Anne Bradstreet

When your house burns down, most people don’t think of it as a blessing or part of a bigger plan. But this is the exact way Anne Bradstreet felt when her house burned down in 1666. The 1600’s were the time of the puritans. Christians who believed that humans were sinful and would be doomed to a fiery eternity unless they were saved by God. In the puritan times Jonathan Edwards was a preacher and Anne Bradstreet was a poet. In Edwards’s and Bradstreet’s works of literature they show their religious views, use different forms of imagery and use many details in their poems and sermons.
Bradstreet and Edwards were both religious and their religious views are very prominent in their poems and sermons. Bradstreet believes that God owns everything