Colonial Literature
It has been more that two hundred and twenty five years since the nation was declared independent and almost four hundred years since the first English settlement was founded. Here in this century politicians, activists, the media and normal citizens cry out for a separation of church and state. Although we may see this as the same cry that the first pilgrim that settled here had, it is different. But first one must understand that we as Americans almost did not exist. Knowing that Columbus had discovered a New World, the Spanish did not fully take advantage of the land. Only through the early descriptive writings of Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, did interest first surface about the New Found Land.1 Upon his return to England, he published a small pamphlet that bean interest in the Americas. In 1534 King Henry VIII formed what is known as the Church of England. It had been established as a national church, one controlled by Englishman and free from the Pope and Roman Catholicism. What King Henry had envisioned was a church that all of England could gather in this bringing religious unity to his land. What he did not see through the brake from Rome was not far enough. Unlike today where we see peopl
Having read Smith’s accounts of the colony in America, the puritans and pilgrims sought to go to this land. Not as seekers of gold and riches, they sought to go for the freedom to worship as they wanted. The puritans and pilgrims both sought a reformation of the church, the puritans from within the church and the pilgrims from or separatists from without. With both through the ultimate means to these would be found in the new world. Much like Bradford, Captain John Smith, before him used his journal writing to stir the souls of men. Instead of telling of God’s trials, he gave a very direct and very descriptive account of the land its people. One of the first writers you see on the scene as these times is William Bradford. A self educated man, he came to the new world via Holland with the Separatists. It was with his journal writings that we get the historical events that led him to write “Of Plymouth Plantation:. His very descriptive analysis of every thing around him through the years, gives us an account of the hardship and trails that the people endured in the face of doing Gods will. “Being thus arrived in a good harbor… they fell upon their knees and Blessed God!” Also he writes “Being thus passed the vast oceans…they had no friends to welcome them! “3
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