The excerpt is missing, below is the excerpt
from where these choices are to be answered and their correct choice, the
choices are: <span>
"B) Record of
Puritan life, C) Belief in God above all else".
<span>The excerpt is talking about the life of a Puritan that how
important the Bible and God were in his life, when there is the mention of
afflictions and curses but still turning towards God for the mercy and His
favors indicate the belief in God above all. Secondly it signifies the
record of Puritan life as an incident narrated, how an Indian came and offered
Bible and the interaction between the two of them. The narrator also is
referring to the life of difficulties by mentioning curses and afflictions.</span>
The excerpt is this one:
I cannot but take notice of the wonderful mercy of God to me in those
afflictions, in sending me a Bible. One of the Indians that came from Medfield
fight, had brought some plunder, came to me, and asked me, if I would have a
Bible, he had got one in his basket. I was glad of it, and asked him, whether
he thought the Indians would let me read? He answered, yes. So I took the
Bible, and in that melancholy time, it came into my mind to read first the 28th
chapter of Deuteronomy, which I did, and when I had read it, my dark heart
wrought on this manner: that there was no mercy for me, that the blessings were
gone, and the curses come in their room, and that I had lost my opportunity.
But the Lord helped me still to go on reading till I came to Chap. 30, the
seven first verses, where I found, there was mercy promised again, if we would
return to Him by repentance; and though we were scattered from one end of the
earth to the other, yet the Lord would gather us together, and turn all those
curses upon our enemies. I do not desire to live to forget this Scripture, and
what comfort it was to me.</span>
