“There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship” - Jonathan Edwards. I will be comparing the literature works of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards and To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet. The early American authors were similar and different because of religious beliefs and writing style. Both authors are very religious in their own distinct way.
The early American authors are similar and different because of their religious beliefs. They both form their works mainly around their religious beliefs. Bradstreet thinks of God as peaceful and rewarding as she says in her work To My Dear and Loving Husband “The heavens reward thee manifold, I …show more content…
Bradstreet is a poet while Edwards is more of a speaker. They are both religious writers but Bradstreet is more of an emotional writer as she writes “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,” (line 5) in her work To My Dear and Loving Husband talking about how much she prizes her love with her husband. Edwards is a petrifying writer and ignites fear into people as seen in his work Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God he says “that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it.”(126) He tries to ignite the fear so that they’ll tell all the natural men to become men of God so that they don’t end up in the pits of hell. Bradstreet is very dramatic in her writings as she compares her love to “all the riches that the East doth hold./ My love is such that rivers cannot quench.”(lines 6-7). Edwards is also very dramatic in his works as he says that God “Abhors you”(126) which means to regard in extreme disgust and I don’t think somebody should ever feel that way about
The early American authors are similar and different because of their religious beliefs. They both form their works mainly around their religious beliefs. Bradstreet thinks of God as peaceful and rewarding as she says in her work To My Dear and Loving Husband “The heavens reward thee manifold, I …show more content…
Bradstreet is a poet while Edwards is more of a speaker. They are both religious writers but Bradstreet is more of an emotional writer as she writes “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,” (line 5) in her work To My Dear and Loving Husband talking about how much she prizes her love with her husband. Edwards is a petrifying writer and ignites fear into people as seen in his work Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God he says “that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it.”(126) He tries to ignite the fear so that they’ll tell all the natural men to become men of God so that they don’t end up in the pits of hell. Bradstreet is very dramatic in her writings as she compares her love to “all the riches that the East doth hold./ My love is such that rivers cannot quench.”(lines 6-7). Edwards is also very dramatic in his works as he says that God “Abhors you”(126) which means to regard in extreme disgust and I don’t think somebody should ever feel that way about