The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, ed. John Harvard Ellis (Charlestown: Abram E. Cutter, 1867), "Religious Experiences," pp. 5–6

Among all my experiences of God's gratious Dealings with me I haue constantly observed this, that he hath never suffered me long to sitt loose from him, but by one affliction or other hath made me look home, and search w…