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God’s Sovereignty and Man’s Responsibility When opportunity and necessity meet, these two forces often clash with a crash of loud cymbals and with sparks flying. This results in bold and forward movement to most fully redeem the opportunity and at the same time, meet the existing needs. So it was with the departure of the Separatist pilgrims from the oppressive Anglican Church in England who had been subject to the supreme rule of Britain’s king. It was the seventeenth century when the ill-treated pilgrims made way for the New World. For them, it was a new world. This pioneering movement was the result of the pilgrims’ need for religious freedom from the oppressive Anglican stronghold that was put upon them. Necessity flung open the door of opportunity to freedom in the Americas and many quickly fled through. Within the next few years, colonies, settlements, and most significantly – life, was primitively established upon the North American continent. The historic and well-known story of American Revolution and the soon coming birth of a nation, established the platform for two writers of New England, Samuel Sewall and Jonathan Edwards. Samuel Sewall lived in the same epoch as Jonathan Edwards, though he w