Prompt: The early Puritan and Pilgrim works that you have been reading center around the ideas of God's providence and mercy. What is the difference between providence and mercy, as seen by OUR authors?  Using EVERY author for this week, discuss what they each believe is the most important aspect of God's providence and what they want readers to take from their work. Use specific evidence from the texts you have been assigned.

The author are

Bradford – Book I: Of Plymouth Plantation

Bradstreet – “Before the Birth of one of Her Children”

“To My Dear and Loving Husband”

“To My Dear Children”

Rowlandson – “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”

Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”