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G. Pilgrims landing in the new world
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Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to… entertain each other in brotherly affection… We must uphold meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace… For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.
John Winthrop 1630
H. Pilgrims landing in the new world
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Now, God makes room for a people three ways:
First, when He casts out the enemies of a people before them by lawful war with the inhabitants. . .
Second, when He gives a foreign people favor in the eyes of any native people to come and sit down with them. . . .
Third, when He makes a country, though not altogether void of inhabitants, yet void in that place where they reside. Where there is a vacant place, there is liberty for the sons of Adam or Noah to come and inhabit, though they neither buy it nor ask their leaves. . . .
John Cotton 1630
I. Cotten Mather Influential Puritan Leader: Discourse on Witchcraft 1689
“I will prove to that Witchcraft exists. Those who deny it exists argue that they never saw any witches, therefore there are none. That would be as if you or I said: We never met any robbers, therefore there are none. I have two pieces of evidence that witchcraft exists: First, the Scripture mentions witchcraft. Secondly, many people have experienced the horrors of witchcraft.”
J. New Haven Connecticut Blue Laws 1647
CONCERNING THE SABBATH:
No one shall cross a river on the Sabbath but authorized clergymen.
No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day.
No one shall kiss his or her children on the Sabbath or feasting days.
The Sabbath Day shall begin at sunset Saturday.
K. New England Primer reading text for New England Public Schools
Pray to God.
Call no ill names.
Love God.
Use no ill words.
Fear God.
Tell no lies.
Serve God.
Hate Lies.
Speak the Truth.
Do not Swear.
Love your School.
Do not Steal.
From an New England Textbook
L. Great Awakening Religious Revival
I happened to attend one of (Whitefield's) sermons. I realized he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently decided he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of money. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. His oratory made me ashamed and I decided to give the silver. (finally) I emptied my pocket into the collector's dish, gold and all. He had a loud and clear voice, and articulated his words and sentences so perfectly, that he might be heard and understood at a great distance. He preached one evening and I computed that he might well be heard by more than thirty thousand.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1793
M. The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton. 1637
Mr. John Winthrop, Governor: Mrs. Hutchinson, you are called here as one of those that have troubled the peace of the commonwealth and the churches here; you are known to be a woman that hath had a great share in the promoting and divulging of those opinions that are the cause of this trouble… You have maintained a meeting and an assembly in your house that hath been condemned by the general assembly as a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God nor fitting for your sex… The court hath already declared themselves satisfied concerning the things you hear, and concerning the troublesomeness of her spirit and the danger of her course amongst us, which is not to be suffered. Therefore if it be the mind of the court that Mrs. Hutchinson for these things that appear before us is unfit for our society, and if it be the mind of the court that she shall be banished out of our liberties and imprisoned till she be sent away, let them hold up their hands. Mrs. Hutchinson, the sentence of the court you hear is that you are banished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society, and are to be imprisoned till the court shall send you away.