Complete some research on your own–using ONLY peer-reviewed sources, NOT Google search sources, about the colonial Puritans, typology, and covenant theology, also known as the Covenant of Grace.
Recall that
[t]he Puritans employed typology, the practice of using the Bible to understand events in their daily lives; they believed they were re-living Biblical scripture, and they interpreted their lives through this mass belief. Accordingly, they viewed themselves as the New Israelites on an “errand in the wilderness.” They believed in predestination and practiced covenant theology, believing that by means of election people would be saved through God’s covenant of grace. A person could not know whether they were chosen or not, and this made the practice of typology especially important; they were looking for signs to help them know if they would be saved. (Cato and Swiatkowski)
Then, write an essay using our assigned primary readings by Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, and Rowlandson which convincingly demonstrates how any combination of these writers’ works is UNDERSTOOD BEST when we filter their texts through the tenets of typology and the Covenant of Grace. In particular, point out direct textual evidence in the writings where the authors interpret their lives in terms of Biblical allusions, or when they map out “pattern[s] and signs of God’s approbation or disapprobation” (Kurtz and Kurant).