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- 0:07Speaker 1: The first permanent settlement in the New World was the
- 0:10Speaker 1: English Jamestown in sixteen oh seven in Virginia. Like the
- 0:14Speaker 1: charters of all the colonies, the first Charter of Virginia
- 0:17Speaker 1: emphasized the Christian character of the colonist's purpose in life.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hello I'm ron Edwards on today's page from the Edwards Notebook. Similarly,
- 0:28Speaker 1: in sixteen twenty, the Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Their purpose was to establish a political commonwealth governed by
- 0:37Speaker 1: Biblical standards. The Mayflower Compact, their initial government document, clearly
- 0:43Speaker 1: stated that they had undertaken what's for the glory of
- 0:48Speaker 1: God and the advancement of the Christian faith, along with
- 0:51Speaker 1: standing for the unalienable rights of the people, which, by
- 0:55Speaker 1: the way come from God. William Braffort, the second governor
- 0:59Speaker 1: of Plymouth, stated, the colonists cherished a great hope and
- 1:02Speaker 1: inward zeal of laying good foundations for the propagation and
- 1:06Speaker 1: advancement of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ in
- 1:09Speaker 1: the remote parts of the world, while establishing a beachhead
- 1:12Speaker 1: of liberty in the New World. I'm ron Edwards. Check
- 1:23Speaker 1: out thee Ron Edwards dot Com. Ron Edwards, the new
- 1:27Speaker 1: voice of America.