jun 5, 1631 - "God's Plantation" 1630

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- John Cotton (1595-1652): Puritan minister & very influential representative of Massachusetts Bay Company
- Wrote first printed Sermon: “God’s promise to his plantation” (1630) -> “I will give a place for my people Israel”

- What happened to those who dissented? Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) prosecuted for antinomianism
- The belief that churches/clergy were superfluous (study at home suffices for salvation)
- Banned from MA and fled to RI (joined Roger Williams); Hutchinson trial: women can’t speak in church