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A bully Aboard the Ship!
If you are bad to people, bad things will happen to you, Karma always comes back around. The Puritans believed in faith, and when there was a disrespectful person they believed that his faith wasn’t going to turn out good. “But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curse light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his f -
The Ship Started to Fall Apart!
Survival is key; surviving the hardest times can make people even stronger. The puritans among their journey were trying to do everything that they could in order to survive and make their long journey memorable for their future generations. “And as for the decks and upper works, they would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch [watertight], yet there would otherwise be no great danger, if they did not over press her with sails -
The Great Arrival to Cape Cod
They had believed in God, and religion was everything to them. During their journey they didn’t know exactly where they would step onto land again. “Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element…” (30-31). When they were out at sea they had -
The beginning Of Cape Cod
Often times when people go to new places they look back at where they were before. The puritans had looked back at the ocean that they had come across and said that God wanted them there; they had also envisioned what the future generation would say about their journey. “If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world… What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His gr -
The Puritans are sick!
During this time period it was very common that when a person would get sick, they would die due to no medical treatment. They didn’t have the medical treatments that we have available today. “And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness” (32). Around half of the puritans had gotten sick and had died. The ones that didn’t get sick believed that God had kept them alive and well enough to try and feed and take c
