 With such ideal personal circumstances, and because of his continuing love for England, he was in no hurry to leave England like some of his fellow Puritans were. But spiritual forces were at work upon Winthrop. As he later explained, when God intends a man to work, he sets a bias on his heart so that though he be tumbled this way and that, yet his bias still draws him to that side, and there he rests at last.