...against the Kingdom of "A bulwark Anti-Christ." There they trusted the Lord would "create Soirist." a new heaven and a new earth, " " new churches and a new commonwealth together." Puritan ideals are not at all apparent, however, in the The Massabusinesslike document by which the...

...Wonder-Working Providence ( 1 652), where New England was described as "the place where the Lord will create a new Heaven, and a new Earth . . . , new churches, and a new Commonwealth."''6 The young preachers of this second generation completed the myth. Stoughton, Danforth,...

...England was to be the place where sacred and earthly history would converge, where "the Lord will create a new Heaven, and a new Earth, new Churches, and a new Common-wealth." This language suggests the apocalyptic temper that Johnson's book shares with so much of Puritan historical...

...something like Edmund Johnson's assertion that New England was the place "where the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth . . . new churches and a new commonwealth together," since these colonists saw themselves as carrying out the Protestant Reformation. Viewed providentially...

...Wonder Working Providence of Zion's Saviour ( 1650), found here "the place where the Lord would create a new heaven and a new earth, new churches and a new commonwealth." Here the Protestant Reformation had reached its final cuhnination and here God had made a new beginning...

...up the first of his forces in." New England was destined "to be the place where the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth, new churches and a new commonwealth together."11 Colonial clergymen's tendency to mythologize their role in history gave apocalyptic significance...

...of New England in 1653: "For your full assurance, know this is the place where the Lord will create a new Heaven and a new earth . . . , new Churches and a new Commonwealth together."34 Except for the Mormons and a few other groups who still view America as the New Zion,...

...The colonizing Puritans who left England arrived with a vision of a "Place where the Lord will create a new Heaven and a new earth . . . new Churches and a new Commonwealth." They saw themselves as a covenanted people with a providential mission to create a new community affecting...

...worship God was to embrace good government. New England was the place "where the Lord would create a new heaven and a new earth, new churches and a new commonwealth together," as Edward Johnson, perhaps America's first historian, predicted. To fight for one meant to fight for...