In this reading, there were many examples that showed how religious people were in the colonial period. They committed themselves to a life based on the bible. The passage describes how the people placed their faith in God to guide them to the New World. They believed that God would decide who deserved to live and who deserved to die.

One example of this is in the first paragraph of Chapter IX. It reads "But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man w

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