Errand in the wilderness, History

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The Puritans' original conception of their "errand in the wilderness" was that they were to

a. build a "city on a hill" in the Promised Land and never to return to England
b. convert the heathen
c. get rich in the New World, for one sign of God's elect was economic success
d. show by example the kind of community God's elect could build; then, after that example had transformed England, they were to return home in triumph


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