Posted on 11/28/2019 6:48:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On November 29, 1623, two years after the first Thanksgiving, Governor William Bradford made an official proclamation for a second day of Thanksgiving. In it Governor Bradford thanked God for their abundant harvest, bountiful game, protection from “the ravages of savages… and disease,” and for the “freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.” Well over a hundred Natives attended, bringing plenty of turkey and venison along with them.
The Pilgrims had the proper perspective. As Bradford would note, “As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light [of Jesus] kindled here has shown unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation…We have noted these things so that you might see their worth and not negligently lose what your fathers have obtained with so much hardship.”
A handful of years later, another group of devout believers would set out for America’s shores in search of a new home. Unlike the Separatists (Pilgrims), the Puritans did not want to break away from the Church of England. (The Puritans were very critical of the Separatists for such action.) The Puritans sought reform, however, for the most part, the Church saw no need for reform.
In general, the Puritans were more affluent than the Pilgrims. To head out for a new home, they had much more to leave behind. The decision was not as easy for them as for the Pilgrims. Furthermore, for a period of time, the Church tolerated the Puritans much more than it tolerated the Pilgrims. In order for the Puritans to get to the place they needed to be (America) -- and as hindsight reveals, exactly the place where God wanted them to be -- their level of suffering needed to increase.
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Thanks for this article and Have a very blessed and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks. Likewise to you and your loved ones.
Thank you. The insane prejudice against our cultural forefathers is FAKE NEWS. the Puritans are and were great people, brave, hardworking, godly, fun loving...they just desired purity IN WORSHIP. they were not the Amish or the witch hunters.
They did so much with so little and left a great legacy. It is such a shame for “Puritan”’ to be used in an insulting manner to describe a hypocritical, mean, bigoted person. No basis in truth.
This author is at pains to distance Puritans from Separatists, but the Puritans were later arrivals. The celebrated Pilgrims were Separatist. For those who accept that Plymouth was the putative founding of this country (and I don’t, it was Jamestown Virginia in 1607 by any rational measure), then those founders are not Puritan, they’re Separatist, the ones this author pins witch-burning upon. You know, the Mayflower crowd.
You mean like Bloomberg?
And keep in mind that what, 20 people died in the Salem witch trials?! The Catholic Church did far more damage under Ferdinand and Isabella, hands down.
...yes...and neither group championed sodomy or abortion which of course makes them both bad...
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