God was an important concept in the puritan faith. Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards has contrasting thoughts about him. Anne is a housewife and a poet who writes delicately in many pieces such as To My Dear and Loving Husband and The Burning of Our House. Jonathan is a preacher who speaks dramatically about God. He writes sermons which he presents in church. They both project their idea of God through their writing styles.
Anne and Jonathan are of the puritan faith. God played a big influence on how they write and acts. Anne writes of a peaceful and loving God. In Anne’s poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband Jonathan persuades people by vividly describing the wrath of God to his audience,