Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
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The Puritan people first came to the New World to escape the
religious persecution that hounded Non-Anglicans in England. They
established the Plymouth Colony in 1620, in what is now Massachusetts. The
colony was a reflection of the Puritans' beliefs. These beliefs, along
with the experience of ....
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.... of a
sailor "..of a lusty, able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor
people in their sickness and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them
that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their
journey's end". But, "it pleased God before they came half-seas over, to
smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a
desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard".
Bradford believes that the sailor died bec ....
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