Thomas Shepard

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nst me…”(3). Once Shepard finally got out of his hostile home environment, and his luck would have it, he was sent to a school where his teacher, “was exceedingly curst and cruel and would deal roughly with me and so discouraged me form learning that I wished…to keep hogs or beasts rather than to go to school and learn”(4). During this time of inner turmoil for Shepard, his father fell ill. Shepard’s answer to this problem is a simple one, pray. “I did pray very strongly and heartily for the life of my father and made some covenant, if god would do it, to serve him the better…”(4) Shepard swore an oath to devote his life to god if his father would be saved, but that as it turned out did not solve the problem. At the age of ten Shepard was left without both parents yet he did not turn his back on God, he maintained his faith.
Finally some light was shown on Shepard’s life when he left his stepmother to live with his older brother. It was with his older brother that Shepard was influenced to rely solely on Go...