God is portrayed almost like a person in the fact that he has his moods and can be kind or angry when provoked. God is giving when he is kind like in Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband". Once her and her husband have passed on she hoped that "The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray"(Bradstreet 10). She wanted God to give them a place in heaven in which they could celebrate their love forever. With God being so kind he was also generous to some. Anne Bradstreet hoped that he would bestow this kindness upon her when she said "Yet by his gift is made thine own/ theres wealth enough, I need no more"(Bradstreet 50-51). If God was provoked or ignored he could turn his anger upon the poor people "The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and

higher, till an outlet is given"(Edwards 41). Jonathan Edwards would say thing s like this to scare the people back to the church to be reborn and be saved from this horrible fury.

All people have goals in their life, but what some may not think about is the goal of the afterlife. We may not know what is coming but the puritan writers thought they knew. "The world no longer let me love/ My hope and treasure lies above" (Bradstreet 53-54) is Anne Bradstreet's thought on her ultimate destination from the poem "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666". The Puritans had no use for earthly possessions so once her house had started burning she thought that she was going to go to heaven because she did not stress over it. Edward Taylor had tried a different approach to what was a connection to heaven. "Then mine apparel shall display before ye/ That I am Clothed in Holy robes for glory"(Taylor 17-18) was his way for getting ready for the day in which God shall come, because the Puritans wanted to be in a state of grace which is being rid of all sins and impure feelings like jealousy, anger, and lust. Jonathan Edwards was a preacher that was trying to get people to be reborn again in the holy church. He gave people hope, in his speeches like Sinner's in the Hands of

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