What type of individuals who would most likely be persuaded by these arguments to venture out to to sea with*?

*the Massachusetts Bay Colony?





What is the reason for the failure (“ill success”) of other colonies? How


are concerns eased about the hazards associated with the undertaking?





It will be a service to the Church of great consequence to carry the Gospel into those parts of the world, to help on the


fullness of the coming of the Gentiles, and to raise a bulwark against the kingdom of AnteChrist, which the Jesuits


labor to rear up in those parts.


2. All other Churches of Europe are brought to desolation, and our sins, for which the Lord begins already to frown upon


us and to cut us short, do threaten evil times to be coming upon us, and who knows, but that God hath provided this


place to be a refuge for many whom he means to save out of the general calamity, and seeing the Church hath no place


left to fly into but the wilderness, what better work can there be, than to go and provide tabernacles and food for her


when she be restored.


3. This England grows weary of her inhabitants, so as Man, who is the most precious of all creatures, is here more vile


and base than the earth we tread upon, and of less price among us than a horse or a sheep. Masters are forced by


authority to entertain servants, parents to maintain their own children, all towns complain of their burden to maintain


their poor, though we have taken up many unnecessary, yea unlawful, trades to maintain them. We use the authority


of the Law to hinder the increase of our people, as by urging the statute against cottages and inmates—and thus it is


come to pass, that children, servants and neighbors, especially if they be poor, are counted the greatest burdens, which


if things were right would be the chiefest earthly blessings.


4. The whole earth is the Lord’s garden, and He hath given it to mankind with a general commission (Gen. 1:28) to


increase and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, which was again renewed to Noah. The end is double and


natural, that Mankind might enjoy the fruits of the earth, and God might have His due Glory from His creatures. Why


then should one strive here for places of habitation, at such a cost as would obtain better land in another country, and


at the same time suffer a whole continent as fruitful and convenient for the use of man to lie waste without any improve-


ment?


5. We are grown to that height of intemperance in all excess of riot that as no man’s estate, almost, will suffice to keep


sail with his equals. He who fails herein must live in scorn and contempt. Hence it comes that all arts and trades are


carried on in that deceitful and unrighteous course, so that it is almost impossible for a good and upright man to


maintain his charge and live comfortably in any of them.


6. The fountains of learning and religion are so corrupted that most children (besides the unsupportable charge of their


education) are perverted, corrupted, and utterly overthrown by the multitude of evil examples and the licentious gov-


ernment of those seminaries, where men strain at gnats and swallow camels, and use all severity for maintenance of


caps and like accomplishments, but suffer all ruffianlike fashions and disorder in manners to pass uncontrolled.


7. What can be a better work, and more honorable and worthy of a Christian than to help rise and support a particular


church while it is in its infancy, and to join his forces with such a company of faithful people, as by a timely assistance


may grow strong and prosper, when for want of such help may be put to great hazard, if not wholly ruined.


8. If any such as are known to be Godly and live in all wealth and prosperity here, and shall forsake all this to join them-


selves with this Church and to run a hazard with them of a hard and mean condition, it will be an example of great use


both for removing the scandal of worldly and sinister respects which is cast upon the Adventurer, to give more life to


the faith of God’s people in their prayers for the Plantation, and to encourage others to join the more willingly in it.


9. It appears to be a work of God for the good of His Church, in that He hath disposed the hearts of so many of His wise


and faithful servants, both ministers and others, not only to approve of the enterprise but to interest themselves in it,


some in their persons and estates, and others by their serious advice and help otherwise, and all by their prayers for


the welfare of it. (Amos 3:) The Lord revealed his secret to His servants, the prophets, and it is likely He hath some


great work in hand which He hath revealed to His prophets among us, whom He hath stirred up to encourage His servants to this Plantation, for He doth not use to seduce His people by His own prophets, but committed that office to


the ministry of false prophets and lying spirits.|||The Gullible.