This religious connection was strong enough even to influence colonial legislatures into passing unusually worded laws.  A good example of this influence was the 1663 law passed by the legislature of Connecticut, proclaiming: “this court understanding that the word of God is gone out against the people at New Netherlands, by pestilential infections, do therefore prohibit all persons coming from any of those infectious places into this colony.”  Here is an early quarantine law passed based on religious convictions.