The Wages of the Covenant - The Children of the Covenant

American Political History · Apr 30, 2021 · 18m

The Bay Colony in 1660 had survived everything its founders feared. It had built its courts and churches and its college on a standard that separated the elect from the rest: the visible saints, men and women who could stand before their congregation and testify to a personal experience of God's grace. It worked for the first generation. They had fled persecution, sold estates, buried children on a strange coast. The conviction was real.

Their children had not done any of that. They had been born inside the covenant, raised in safety inside the community their parents had died to build. And…