Summary Of Upon The Burning Of Our House
It began in the middle of 16th century in England. Puritanism moved into the New England colonies by way of settlers in the New World. In 1543, King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England. English citizens were forced to join the new church, but the people who didn’t join were called Puritans. Jonathan Edwards lived during the Puritism time. He was an American Calvinistic theologian and philosopher. He attended in Yale college and later became a pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts in 1724. His outstanding preaching there led to the 'Great Awakening' in 1734–5. Another famous person at that time was an English woman named Anne Bradstreet. She was the first woman to publish her poetry. She wrote two edition
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He boldly advised the congregation that bad politicians seek only to, "enrich themselves, or to be great, and advance themselves on the spoils of others." The good judge, however, is not willing to "grind the faces of the poor, and screw their neighbors for filthy lucre." Little wonder that these politicians conspired with others to fire Edwards some months later." They seem to defend whatever Edwards says, but it true what he is saying towards the government economically. On the poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House”, Bradstreet says that “There lay that store I counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie.” She wasn’t worried about her house when it was burning down, even with her precious items that she had because her husband belonged to the rich community and it could be recovered. But in another hand, the poor communities can’t do anything about it. They can’t blame them or God and recover their houses. In another poem of Bradstreet’s, she says that “ O great’s the gain, through got with pain, comes by profession pure.” Which she means that they work hard and do good by the hope getting into heaven. So, by what she says, you don’t have to worry too much when there is something you lost from something because God is on your side and bring you up to heaven These are the influence on economic development in the New England
He boldly advised the congregation that bad politicians seek only to, "enrich themselves, or to be great, and advance themselves on the spoils of others." The good judge, however, is not willing to "grind the faces of the poor, and screw their neighbors for filthy lucre." Little wonder that these politicians conspired with others to fire Edwards some months later." They seem to defend whatever Edwards says, but it true what he is saying towards the government economically. On the poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House”, Bradstreet says that “There lay that store I counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie.” She wasn’t worried about her house when it was burning down, even with her precious items that she had because her husband belonged to the rich community and it could be recovered. But in another hand, the poor communities can’t do anything about it. They can’t blame them or God and recover their houses. In another poem of Bradstreet’s, she says that “ O great’s the gain, through got with pain, comes by profession pure.” Which she means that they work hard and do good by the hope getting into heaven. So, by what she says, you don’t have to worry too much when there is something you lost from something because God is on your side and bring you up to heaven These are the influence on economic development in the New England