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A 5 page essay that examines the writing of Jonathan Edwards ("Personal Narrative" and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God") and compares and contrasts this with excerpts from Franklin's "Poor Richard" writings and his correspondence. The writer specifically contrasts their religious beliefs and world perspective. No additional sources cited.
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colonial history, these men shared many of the same basic characteristics. They were both extremely intelligent and articulate writers. They were both New Englanders. Furthermore, they each represent a major
branch of our American heritage by having worldviews that are at opposite ends of the cultural continuum for that period. In other words, the writing of Edwards represents that strain
of American history that brought religious dissenters, i.e. the Puritans and the Pilgrims, to North American shores. Franklin, on the other hand, represents that group of American intellectuals who were
greatly influenced by the European Enlightenment philosophies and whose rationalism led the way towards nationhood. These differences are exemplified in each mans account of his life and also in their
writing on their religious beliefs. Jonathan Edwards "Personal Narrative" is an account of his life, beginning in childhood. However, it offers very few of the details that one
would expect in an autobiographical account, as Edwards concentrates solely on his spiritual development and how his relationship to God developed and changed over the course of his maturation. When
he goes details, as he does when he discusses his going away to college, it is to relate how such moves affected his spiritual life. Edwards makes it clear early
on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of objections against the doctrine of Gods
sovereignty, in choosing whom He would to eternal life and rejecting whom he pleased, leaving them eternally to perish and be everlastingly tormented in Hell" (Edwards 178). The idea behind
this sort of belief is that all salvation is via the grace of God, that the works of humanity can have no consequence over salvation. Therefore, it is not in
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