The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The three sentences in the passage are:
-And of these in the times of mort distress, there were but six or seven sound persons who, to their great commendations be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with the abundance of toil..."
-"Yet the Lord so upheld these persons, as in this general calamity they were not all infected either with sickness or lameness."
-"And I doubt not but their recompense is with the Lord.
That's what the beliefs were at the Plymouth Colony, in Massachusets. This colony followed strict religious rules. They had been persecuted in Greta Britain by the Church of England, and that is why they decided to leave Britain to avoid religious persecution and establish in North America to found a new place where they could practice their religious teaching.