All other Churches of Europe are brought to desolation, and our sins, for which the Lord begins already to frown upon us and to
cut us short, do threaten evil times to be coming upon us, and who knows, but that God hath provided this place to be a refuge for many whom he means to save out of the general calamity, and seeing the Church hath no place left to fly into but the wilderness, what better work can there be, than to go and provide tabernacles and food for her when she be restored. What does it mean?
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
This means that, according to John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the North American territory, this colony represented a refugee, a new place to begin a new life for all the persecuted European people that had had problems with their respective churches.
When John Winthrop was named the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a document in 1629 known as "Reasons to Be Considered for Justifying the Undertakers of the Intended Plantation in New England."
