Mary Rowlandson And The Power Of God's Elect

King Phillip’s War (1675-1676) was brought about by Native Americans who were tired of the English settlers taking their land. The Wampanoag Indians invaded Mary Rowlandson’s

If a person knows the Bible up and down, every scripture word for word, he or she can take any situation and make it seem any way they want it to seem. A person can take the worst, most awkward situation and find scripture showing God’s reason for the situation. Rowlandson’s vast knowledge of the Bible and her tireless faith in the Lord gets her through the most trying situation a Puritan woman could be in. Rowlandson’s narrative captures the essence of the Puritan spirit. She shows how she believed every harsh act bestowed upon her is an act by God trying to make her a better Christian. She shows how the Puritans believed themselves to be superior among all others. She shows that being God’s elect takes much work and knowledge. All along she knew that she, as well as the Puritan community, would triumph over the Indians. It was God’s will.

This quote shows that this whole capture is part of God’s master plan for making her a better Christian as one of the “chosen.”

We had six stout Dogs belonging to our Garrison, but none of them would stir though another time, if an Indian had come to the Door, they were ready to fly upon him, and tear him down. The Lord hereby would make us the more to acknowledge his Hand, and to see that our Help is always in him. (13)

Though I confess, I could not much condole with them. Many sorrowful days I had in this place, often getting alone; like a Crane or a Swallow so did I chatter; I did mourn as a Dove, mine eyes fail with looking upward. Oh lord I am oppressed, undertake for me. (33)

When she sees her family, home, and town destroyed by Indians, she sees this as an act of God, not an act by the Indians, “O the doleful sight that now was to behold at this House! Come, behold the Works of the Lord, what desolation he has made in the Earth” (14). Mary sees the twenty-four Puritans who escaped death that tragic day as the chosen or predestined, “ ….yet the Lord by his Almighty power, preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty four of us taken alive; and carried captive” (14).

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