The Puritans and the Pilgrims both migrated to North America to escape religious persecution due to their views about the Church of England. They created very little literature because writing was viewed as satanic in both cultures. All that was written in Puritan New England were works to glorify God and record journeys for historical purposes. The most famous poets of this period include Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, kept a journal of the events that took place on the journey over on the Mayflower and life within the colony. Jonathan Edwards, a minister during the Great Awakening wrote the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." These authors illustrated the following religious beliefs in their works: natural depravity, irresistible grace, and unconditional election.
Puritans believed that all men sinned and that all men were of an evil nature.
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English: "The Tenth Muse," a collection of poems a...Ministers instructed them to search their souls for sins and ask God for forgiveness. In the 1730's and 1740's the Puritan religion began to lose followers. Several ministers went to extreme measures to get their followers to adhere to the teaching in the Bible more sternly. "There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire, if it were not for God's restraints."(101). The prior excerpt demonstrates the natural depravity of men. Puritans were instructed to frequently search through their souls for instances of which they had done evil doings. The act of constant soul searching wore many puritans down and caused them to convert to a different faith while others were driven in to a psychotic state. Edwards also stated that "Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead and to tend downwards with great...