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>In explaining to his congregation why they should emigrate, Robinson used the analogy of the ancient Israelites leaving Babylon to escape bondage by returning to Jerusalem, where they would build their temple."The Pilgrims and Puritans actually referred to themselves as God's New Israel," writes Peter Marshall.It was therefore the manifest destiny of the Pilgrims and Puritans to similarly build a "spiritual Jerusalem" in America