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How Did The Puritan Doctrine Influence Her Captivity

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The Puritan doctrine was a heavy influence on Rowlandson’s interpretive views on her captivity. The belief that God is active and in control of every aspect of their lives because they believed that when they received good things it was a sign of God’s grace, and misfortune was a sign of God’s divine judgment for the purpose of punishing his people for their misdeeds and to teach them a lesson from it. When Rowlandson and the Indians are making their way across the river she realizes that the English Army is on their way, but when the English arrived at the river they couldn’t cross it to follow. “God did not give them the courage to or activity to go over after us; we were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance”(Rowlandson
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