Order And Harmony In The Puritan

With the expansion of the Colonies it led to the expansion of new laws, reforms in different religions and even new fears among the people that inhabited it. The major theme in all three of these passages is the order and harmony each document sought in the end. The Puritan’s believed that through setting an example of good works, order and harmony that in the end they could achieve a successful life and keep God’s blessing in a sense. Even the laws written up by Penn himself tried to keep a structured and orderly colony, but it lacked leniency in even the simplest of infractions. Even in chaos inflicted Salem tried to seek order and peace within the community by putting the problems with the colonists and the witch scare to rest with the deaths
of many accused ‘witches’. The Puritans, the Salem colonists and William Penn tried to seek order and harmony among their people, but in the end it led to more problems to prosperity to the colonies.