The Comfort of Predestination

The English invented the confessional diary, which so many of us keep and they did it precisely to examine their day to day conduct. It's really a symptom of the fact there are anxieties within this, but then we need to think of the comfort it gives you to feel that God is supporting you. Even those who didn't have much formal literacy were not stupid. In the colonies established particularly by the English in New England, which was probably in its day in the 1620s and 30s, the most literate society on earth. They valued education. We underestimate the extent to which people bought into the system.