By Avihu Zakai
Through interpreting the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to the USA, the writer indicates how Puritans believed that their removing to New England fulfilled prophetic apocalyptic and eschatological visions. according to a detailed interpreting of Puritan texts, the publication explains how Puritans interpreted their migration as a prophetic revelatory occasion within the context of a sacred, ecclesiastical background, and why they thought of it because the climax of the background of salvation and redemption.
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I, p. 5. , vol. II, pp. 793, 796. , vol. VIII, p. 601; vol. I, p. 94. "84 Above all, Foxe's Acts and Monuments reflects the supreme achievement of Protestant historiography, the shaping of English history to its own ends, and the creation of a new historical consciousness among Englishmen. Foxe succeeded in imparting to Englishmen a national ecclesiastical history unique to England, a Protestant view of English history centered exclusively on the Church of England, from its early apostolic origins until the time of Elizabeth.
And just as the history of the English Church had been situated within the apocalyptic dimension of time, so the entire course of English history was now imbued with apocalyptic, eschatological significance. Protestantism and English patriotism had now become inextricably joined, with the role of England in sacred history based upon the independency of both the church and the crown. An examination of the differences between Foxe and Bale may facilitate a greater understanding of Foxe's contribution to Protestant historiography.
47 "So highly necessary, good Christian reader," thus opened Bale's book, "is the knowledge of St. John's Apocalypse or Revelation (whether you wilt) to him that is a member of Christ's church"; for this prophecy 46 47 John Bale, Image of Both Churches (1550), in Selected Works of John Bale, ed. H. Christmas (Cambridge, 1849), pp. 2 5 4 - 5 . , pp. 252, 2 5 1 . "49 The key to history, the meaning of historical events, is to be found in the text of divine prophecy. This indeed was the Protestant revolution in the Christian philosophy of history: a historiographic revolution whose rallying cry was for a literal,figural,and historical reading of Scripture, giving rise to a tight correspondence between prophecy and history.
