Unit One-Native Americans of Colonial Periods/ Lit-Comp 11- Howard Gartrell

http://www.firstpeople.us/html/An-Aztec-Prayer.html


http://www.firstpeople.us/html/Indian_Prayer.html


Well the Aztec Prayer is one of the poems that I read and basically talks about GOD giving his riches to people so they can enjoy what he gives them. Another poem would be the Indian Prayer, it compares mother to earth and father to sky. My opinion about it is, they're saying we born on earth our mother and made from GOD our father.
evidence from Aztec Prayer-
Lord most giving and resourceful.
evidence from Indian Prayer-
Oh our Mother the earth, Oh our Father the sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs, We bring you the gifts you love.

Well the Aztecs say that GOD gives to you and the Indians that you give back to GOD but more than what he gives to you. The Aztecs believe that people should enjoy the goods and riches that GOD naturally gives and the Indians believe that you gives back GOD, he will then weave for us a garment of brightness which is a long white robe.

It the best known of Edwards Sermons.
They say people got so sacred they fainted when they heard it.

GOD is under manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction. So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of GOD over the pit of hell. They have deserved the fiery pit and already sentenced to it and GOD dreadly provoked his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his in hell.

Puritan- a member of a group of English Protestants.
Rationalism- the principle or practice of accepting reason as the only authority.
Original Sin- the sin of disobedience committed by Adam and Eve.
Deism- a body of ideas that did not revolve around a church itself.
Rationalist Men and Women also believed that human society was run by natural law.
Puritans believed in authority and the bible and puritans is broken down in doctrine, scriptures.
A Rationalist would believe that anything could be understood through science.
Puritans thought this to be an insult to GOD since they believe humans had no business deconstructing God's work.
Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temptations.
Conceiving then, that, agreeably to advice of Pythagoras in his Golden Verses, daily examination would be necessary.
Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
The difference between the Puritans and the Rationalists is : The Rationalists believed in doing things through science and the Puritans prayed and asked GOD to do things for them.
"I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively."
He decided to create and write the thirteen virtues to help stop him eating and drinking so much.