1637 Hutchinson tried by the General Court. King Philip's War begins. Rowlandson's narrative The Sovereignty and Goodness of God published. 1684 Massachusetts Bay Charter revoked. 1686 Anglican governor, Edmund Andros, installed.
Antinomianism thus exposes one of the contradictions inherent in Puritan theology and ideology.
The conversion narrative was personal because it represented the speaker's own inner experience, his own feeling of God's manner of working upon the soul in conversion. The Jeremiad Between 1660 and 1690, Puritan New England was shaken by a series of political problems and natural disasters that shook the confidence of the Massachusetts Bay communities. The natural disasters included fires, floods, draughts, and earthquakes. One way in which the Puritans responded to such traumas was through the development of a particular kind of sermon called the jeremiad , which took its text from either Jeremiad or Isaiah. Her narrative is the only extended prose work by a woman published in seventeenth-century New England.