Mary Rowlandson strongly relied on her faith of God to survive her ordeal during her period of captivity by the Indians. Rowlandson, the wife of a minister, was one of twenty-four townspeople taken captive when the Indians ransacked the town of Lancaster in 1675. During her captivity she depended upon a Bible that she had found that an Indian had left behind. Her eventual redemption and reunification with her surviving children and husband affirmed her faith in the providence of her God.

Rowlandson believed that God was punishing his people for breaking their special covenant

Bradstreet was concerned about what critics and others would think of her when many of her poems were published without her consent or even revision. In "The Author to Her Book," she very imaginatively characterizes her book as her own small child who has been "snatched from thence friends, less wise than true." In a poem, Bradstreet is honest about her feelings and not afraid to let them be known to others, even the Puritans if they were able to read it.

Bradstreet is unhesitant to give God credit for so many different aspects of her life. In "To My Dear Children," Bradstreet remembers times when she asked herself "how could I know whether there was a God; I never saw any miracles to confirm me, and those which I read of, how did I know but they were not feigned." These seem to be very common and familiar, much like the questioning of faith that continues to go on in different religions today. Bradstreet continues to tell that she finds her strength in her faith from the everyday miracles around her. Like many today who don't expect to find 'true' miracles, Bradstreet was content seeing God in "the order of all things, night and day, summer and winter, spring and autumn, the daily providing for all this great household upon the earth, the preserving and directing of all to its proper end." In her interpretation of God and the way He works and can be seen, Bradstreet appears very modern in her thinking and is much more likeable and believable than her slightly earlier Puritan counterparts.

Rowlandson also concluded that God had arranged the events of her captivity, and, as an all-powerful being controlling all humanity, had acted with special purpose. God manipulated the relationship between the Indians and the Puritan colonists, favoring the Indians when the colonists had fallen to sinful ways, and then favoring the colonists when they began to recognize their dependence on God. God was neither punishing nor rewarding the Indians, who were merely a driving force whom God controlle

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