Essay question answers on Jeremiads and Puritans.

By Lee A. Zito
1. Characteristics of a Jeremiad are sorrow, complaining, mournfulness, and bitter lamentation. Mary Rowlandson's text functions as a jeremiad by quoting scripture from the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah. It also contains the characteristic I have mentioned before. Rowlandson laments over the sinfulness of her community, while quoting scripture to justify the punishments as from God Himself.
2. Internal doubt caused problems for the Puritan's as well as external enemies. They, however, believed these problems were here because of their own interpretations of Scripture from th…