In the excerpt of Mary Rowlandson's book, she attributes her eventual rescue and all events leading up to it, including the actual abduction and failed rescue attempts, to God’s divine will and plan. This naturally appealed to the heavily pious community settling the Americas in the respects that to them it was clearly due to her devotion to God that she was saved and that to lead such a life would give prosperity to those trying to settle the land. In Mary’s mind, all the good and bad things that happened to her during her imprisonment were all due to the whims of God. On the lighter end of the spectrum she claims that God saved her from getting her foot yet in comparison to others and hat this is a blessing to her health (Annotation, 67).
