It led to her writing A Narrative of the Captivity, Suffering, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. In this narrative she uses Biblical accounts and principles as analogies for her personal experience. In “The Third Remove”, Rowlandson states, “Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” (p.131 N.A.L.). She was saying just as God brung distress upon his people in the bible, in her situation she was being punished for not following his commandments. Therefore; through the harsh persecution she dealt with while being held captive was her time to change her ways and learn to solely rely on
It led to her writing A Narrative of the Captivity, Suffering, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. In this narrative she uses Biblical accounts and principles as analogies for her personal experience. In “The Third Remove”, Rowlandson states, “Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” (p.131 N.A.L.). She was saying just as God brung distress upon his people in the bible, in her situation she was being punished for not following his commandments. Therefore; through the harsh persecution she dealt with while being held captive was her time to change her ways and learn to solely rely on