"still, the mayflower saints and their descendants remained convinced that they alone had been specially chosen by god to act as a beacon for christians around the world. ‘as one small candle may light a thousand,' bradford wrote, ‘so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.'" what might separatist leader william bradford have meant by this quote? support your answer using evidence from the text.

Explanation: What William Bradford might have meant by the quote is (in step-by-step or sentence-by-sentence manner):

# The Mayflower Saints and their descendants have always believed that they and they alone are special people from God, sent as a light to other Christians.

# Bradford defined the power of a beacon in the first half of the second sentence

# Bradford, in the second half of the second sentence, likened the influence of the Mayflower Saints to the power of a beacon

# "so the light (godly power of the Mayflower Saints) here kindled hath shone (influenced many people) to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation (evidence of the largeness of the number of people the godly power of the Mayflower Saints reached)"