1. Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative

2. Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative:
The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed; being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, commended by her, to all that desires to know the Lord's doings to, and dealings with her. Especially to her dear children and relations. The second Addition Corrected and amended. Written by her own hand for her private use, and now made public at the earnest desire of some friends, and for the benefit of the afflicted. Deut See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me; I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand.

3. John Winthop’s “A Model of Christian Charity”, 1630:
wee shall finde that the God of Israell is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world,

4. Puritan Theology COVENANT:
Formal and binding agreement between two parties. In the New World, the Puritans based their society upon the covenant between God and man.
Covenant of Work
Covenant of Grace
Covenant of Redemption

5. Puritan Theology
PROVIDENCE: God’s intervention in the world. Everything that happens is the result of God’s will. God does not cause evil but he allows it for a greater purpose or ultimate plan.

6. Puritan Theology
TOTAL DEPRAVITY: All human beings are innately sinful because they have inherited Adam and Eve’s original sin. Both body and mind are corrupt because of the fall. Depravity begins at conception.

7. Puritan Theology
PREDESTINATION: God has selected those who will be eternally saved and those who will be eternally dammed. The few elect individuals, or “Saints” will at one point in their lives experience a profound sense of assurance that they have been saved.

8. Puritan Theology
THE PURITANS AND ISRAEL: The Puritans see themselves as elected by God. They are the chosen people as the ancient Hebrews were before them. Puritans think they are enacting the story of the Israelites as they flew from Egypt.

9. Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, between 1900-1920
[First Thanksgiving]
Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, between

10. Elliot, the First Missionary among the Indians
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel 1858

11. Puritanism and Women
John Winthrop on Anne Hopkins: Mr. Hopkins, the governor of Hartford upon Connecticut, came to Boston, and brought his wife with him (a godly young woman, and of special parts), who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of her understanding and reason, which had been growing upon her divers years, by occasion of her giving herself wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books. Her husband, being very loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her. […]

12. Heroism of a Pioneer Woman
Henry Howe, 1857

13. The Huntress of the Lake Surprised by Indians
William W. Fowler, 1877.

14. Massacre of Anne Hutchinson
William Cullen Bryan, 1878