Edward Taylor
...rally for what it sounded like. They would have thought that God ground up his Son into bread. However, people of today would know that it is a metaphor for how pure the bread is. An instance of when we would not quite understand the meaning of what Taylor was trying to tell us when he talked about God’s tender bowels. Today love does not come from the bowels as much as it does from our hearts. Another instance of when the sincere Puritans would think brashly of Taylor’s writings would be in Upon a Spider Catching a Fly. Taylor uses a emblem of the spiders web as a symbol of the devil’s temptation, and we are the flies or wasp. The fly would represent a weak individual that is not one with god and is easily tempted to do evil. Whereas the wasps are those people who worship god and have faith in him so that the temptation of the devil is not a temptation at all. Later in his writing Taylor says that we can not fight evil alone, and that we need the 5 tenets of Calvinism; which are total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. With the 5 tenets of Calvinism one can fight off all evil. The sincere Puritans would agree with the 5 tenets of Calvinism, but would have problems with the emblem of the spider web. I do not think that the Puritans would like to be called flies if they are not 100 percent loyal to god, or have certain weaknesses. The wasps woul...