Both the pilgrims and puritans saw God in everything. God gave them trials and tribulations so they could learn to be humble and meek. From the capture of Mary Rowlandson, to Anne Bradstreet's personal poems

... Twyne 1 Anna Twyne English 287 Formal Essay Instructor: K. Smith 9/16/05 Colonial America was a time of religious controversy. Our early English settlers came to the New World with hopes and dreams for their children to grow up with high morals and beliefs. The first English settlers in North America were located in Jamestown, Virginia. There were two groups of settlers from England, the Puritans and the Pilgrims. These settlers were known as "People of the Book", (American Literature p.5). The pilgrims believed that the Church of England was too flashy, and had to many things wrong with it to save. Where as the Puritans thought the church did have errors, but could be reformed. The two groups followed the teachings of two great religious leaders of that time, Martin Luther, a German monk and John Calvin, a French theologian. Calvin taught the colonists that because Adam and Eve sinned, we were all

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