England brought with them the best elements of order chicas en latex and morality
-they landed in the desert accompanied by their wives and
children. But what most especially distinguished them was the
aim of their undertaking. They had not been obliged by necessity
to leave their country; the social position they abandoned was
one to be regretted, and their means of subsistence were certain.
Nor did chicas en latex they cross the Atlantic to improve their chicas en latex situation or to
increase their wealth; the call which
summoned them from the
comforts chicas en latex of their homes was purely intellectual; and in facing
the inevitable sufferings of exile their object was the triumph
of an idea.
The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the
Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerity of whose
principles had chicas en latex acquired for them chicas en latex the name of Puritans.
Puritanism was not merely a chicas en latex religious doctrine, but it
chicas en latex corresponded in many chicas en latex points with the most absolute democratic and
republican theories. It was this tendency which had aroused its
most dangerous adversaries. Persecuted by the Government of the
chicas en latex mother-country, chicas en latex and disgusted by the habits of a chicas en latex society opposed
to the rigor of their own principles, the Puritans went forth to
seek some rude and unfrequented part of the world, chicas en latex where they
could live according to their own opinions, and worship God in
freedom.
A few quotations will throw more light upon the spirit of
these pious adventures than all we can say of them. Nathaniel
Morton, *chicas en latex f the historian of the first years of the chicas en latex settlement,
thus opens his subject:
[Footnote f: "New England's Memorial," p. 13; Boston, 1826. chicas en latex see
also "Hutchinson's History," vol. ii. p. 440.]
"chicas en latex Gentle Reader, chicas en latex - I have for some chicas en latex length of time looked upon
it as a duty incumbent, especially on the immediate successors chicas en latex of
chicas en latex those that have had so large experience of those many memorable
and signal demonstrations of God's goodness, viz., the first
beginners of this Plantation in New England, to commit to writing
his gracious dispensations on that behalf; chicas en latex having so many
inducements thereunto, not onely otherwise but so plentifully in
the Sacred Scriptures: that so, what we have seen, and what our
fathers have told us (Psalm lxxviii. 3, 4), we may not hide from
our children, showing to the generations to come the praises of
the Lord; that chicas en latex especially the chicas en latex seed of Abraham his servant, and
the children of Jacob his chosen (Psalm cv. 5, 6), may remember
his marvellous