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A 3 page paper. The Puritans left England to create a kingdom of God on earth in the New World. The question is: did they succeed? This essay provides an overview of the Puritans, primarily in Massachusetts, the compacts and agreements they signed beginning before they left England and how they violated their own purposes. The writer comments on the fact that they set up the same kind of oppressive society they fled from. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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those promoted by the Puritans (Schafer, n.d.). One of the leaders in the movement was John Winthrop, who decided he could not change the church, which left him only
one choice and that was to move his family to the colonies where they could worship freely (Schafer, n.d.). At the time, numerous ventures were being funded by
investors for business in the Colonies, one of those was the Massachusetts Bay Company (Schafer, n.d.). Winthrop discovered a loophole in the Massachusetts Bay Company charter - somehow the requirement
for the board to meet annually in London had been omitted (Schafer, n.d.). In effect, this meant a group could travel to the New World and set up their
own government, which would be autonomous (Schafer, n.d.). Winthrop wrote the reasons for Christians to make the trip, the first of which was "To carry the gospel to the New
World, to bring the fullness of the Gentiles into the kingdom of God" (Schafer, n.d.). The primary purpose of making this arduous and dangerous trip was to be able to
practice their religion and to advance the kingdom of God (Einwechter, 1999). Prior to sailing, on August 26, 1629, the group drew up the Agreement of the Massachusetts Bay
Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation that all would work for the glory of God (Einwechter, 1999).
Both the Church to be established and the government would both follow the Word of God (Einwechter, 1999). They faced enormous hardships, losing hundreds during the trip and shortly after
arriving (Schafer, n.d.). The winter took more lives (Schafer, n.d.). They ran out of provisions before the next ship came in (Schafer, n.d.). More than 100 returned to England on
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