... , though it could not in itself assist a man toward salvation, could be a sign that he was saved (Morgan, 67). The Puritans that founded the colony in Massachusetts and the surrounding areas were not separatists. John Winthrop who lead the fist great wave of settlers in the spring of 1630 ... the Puritans in England plays a big part in the differences between the Separatists Puritans and the Conformists Puritans. By the time Massachusetts was founded two generations of Puritan writers had devoted themselves to describing the process through which God's free grace operates in the salvatio...

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