church they argued must not just be the construction of a place to worship, fulfilling the covenant with God, but also a convent with each another ("Puritanism & Providence"). In order to master their spiritual peak all had to be ready to combat any sign of evil which, William Bradford, first Governor of the immigrants conveyed in this writings about the despair of those early days and the land being filled with "wild beasts and wild men" (Bradford 133). Bradford also wrote that it was because of the "Grace of God and His Spirit", that they
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