hers that human effort meant nothing in the scale of eternity, they
             sometimes drew the opposite conclusions from their persistence of "preparation" Even the
             history of New England theology had a tendency that lasted a century and a half after it
             was founded. They left it up to God to decide who was saved and who was not. A person
             had no opportunity to affect his eternal condition, only to look at his life as evidence for
             expectance in the after-life. The Puritans searched to always rest their social, political
             and legal beliefs, like their religious ones, on the Bible. The Bible was their guidebook
             for creating "a kingdom of God on earth". Following the ideas of the Bible, a religious
             leader named John Winthrop led a group of Puritans to America in 1630. The
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