The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors . THE BRIDGE, GAINSBOROUGH,{From a sketch by Charles Whymper.) Ill, BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH LIFE. When the Pilgrim Fathers of New England foundedPlymouth Colony, they did so as a federal bodybound together by solemn, social compact, and not asseparate emigrants drawn by mere accident to the samesettlement. This special character of the colony, whichhad important political results in after time, may beexplained by the fact that its founders had first been infellowship in the same Christian community in the OldWorld before they were co
The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors . THE BRIDGE, GAINSBOROUGH,{From a sketch by Charles Whymper.) Ill, BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH LIFE. When the Pilgrim Fathers of New England foundedPlymouth Colony, they did so as a federal bodybound together by solemn, social compact, and not asseparate emigrants drawn by mere accident to the samesettlement. This special character of the colony, whichhad important political results in after time, may beexplained by the fact that its founders had first been infellowship in the same Christian community in the OldWorld before they were colonists together in the Covenant of Citizenship signed on board the May- 74 PILGRIM FA 7HERS OF NEW ENGLAND. flower, in 1620, really had its origin in that Covenant ofthe Lord which, as the Lords free people, the membersof the Church, first at Gainsborough, and then at Scrooby,solemnly made, * to walk together in all His ways madeknown, or to be made known to them, according to theirbest endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lordassisting them
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