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 Puritan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the religion was a rallying cry for the Parliamentary forces.
At the level of the church body, the Puritans believed that the worship of the church ought to be strictly regulated by what is commanded in the Bible (known as the regulative principle).
The largest denominational group to emerge from the Puritan experience is the group of Presbyterian denominations, historically Calvinist who practised a church policy that rejected episcopacy, though, of course, Presbyterianism had been strong in Scotland from the late sixteenth century (the Church of Scotland was and still is Presbyterian).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan   (2658 words)

  
 Puritanism, Puritans
Puritanism generally extended the thought of the English Reformation, with distinctive emphases on four convictions: (1) that personal salvation was entirely from God, (2) that the Bible provided the indispensable guide to life, (3) that the church should reflect the express teaching of Scripture, and (4) that society was one unified whole.
Puritans was the name given in the 16th century to the more extreme Protestants within the Church of England who thought the English Reformation had not gone far enough in reforming the doctrines and structure of the church; they wanted to purify their national church by eliminating every shred of Catholic influence.
Puritans believed, third, that the church should be organized from Scripture.
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 The Puritan Way
Puritans believe that the Church is a meeting house for believers to fellowship and learn the Bible.
Puritans disagree with the practice of using entertainment to entice into church people who are not interested in the study of Scripture.
Puritans emphasized individual conscience before God, and rejected the dogmas of organized religion.
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 Puritan Religion
Puritans fiercely debated how to recognize the "elect." Criteria for membership in the Puritan church were: knowledge of and belief in the doctrines of faith; an upright life, and; proof of election.
The Puritans believed that their message illuminated and interpreted the scripture's message.
Cotton Mather and other Congregational ministers saw the Puritan faith eroding and preached passionately about the need to return to the strict faith of their ancestors.
http://www.stanleywhitman.org/puritanreligionct.html   (1881 words)

  
 Puritanism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The main body of Puritans, the Presbyterians (see Presbyterianism), favored a central church government, whereas the separatists, Independents or Congregationalists (see Congregationalism), defined the church as any autonomous congregation of believers, emphasized the point that one could arrive at one’s own conclusions in religion, and opposed a national, comprehensive church.
The parish was the unit of the Puritan church; the parochial group of church members elected ministers.
During the Restoration the Puritans were oppressed under the Clarendon Code (1661–65), which secured the episcopal character of the Established Church and, in effect, cast the Puritans out of the Church of England.
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 The Puritans
Puritans can be identified with presbyterians even though a major segment of the movement eventually adopted congregationalism, in which there is no church hierarchy and each individual congregation is self-governing.
The Puritan movement which arose within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century, sought to follow the ideas of the Protestant reformers.
When the Puritans failed in their efforts to reform the Church of England, a minority urged separatism, the establishment of separate independent congregations free of bishops.
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 Puritan Evangelism (1)
The Puritans were fishers of men, seeking to awaken the unconverted to their need of Christ, to lead them to faith and repentance, and to establish them in a lifestyle of sanctification.
Puritan preachers encouraged their listeners to "close with" (appropriate) a freely offered Christ by faith, then draft and sign a document of total commitment, in which they "covenanted" (surrendered) their entire lives to God.
Puritan preachers were conversant with their Bibles; they memorized hundreds, if not thousands, of texts.
http://www.hnrc.org/gr/Articles/Puritan_Evangelism__1_/puritan_evangelism__1_.html   (2619 words)

  
 Puritan Laws and Character
He was dealt with still more harshly if he spoke against religion or denied the divine origin of any book of the Bible.
The first attempts to introduce the Episcopal form of religion were sternly resisted, but at length it found a footing, though not in Connecticut till well into the eighteenth century.
A man, for example, was fined, imprisoned, or whipped for non-attendance at church services.
http://www.usahistory.info/NewEngland/Puritans.html   (1114 words)

  
 Pilgrims and Puritans: Background
The Puritans were nonconformists as were the Pilgrims, both of which refusing to accept an authority beyond that of the revealed word.
The Puritans who, in the 1560s, first began to be (contemptuously) referred to as such, were ardent reformers, seeking to bring the Church to a state of purity that would match Christianity as it had been in the time of Christ.
There is at least the indication here that if some Puritans stood ready to see the guilt in others, some of those same people at least made their judgments in good faith and with honesty, giving credence to their understanding of the ways of God, even when they themselves were the object of judgment.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/puritan/purhist.html   (4050 words)

  
 The Puritans
The name "puritan" came to be used to describe members of the Church of England who wished to purify it of all semblances to the Roman Catholic Church, in particular the liturgy, vestments and episcopal hierarchy.
In spite of the fact they had left England, the Puritans who sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 maintained they were not separatists, but wanted to purify the Church of England by establishing "a city upon a hill" as an example of how godly people should live.
A radical minority within the Puritan movement, the Separatists, wanted to remove itself from the tainted English church and worship in its own independent congregations.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h573.html   (467 words)

  
 Books about Puritans and Puritan & Reformed Theology
Crampton gives the foundations for Puritan theology in chapters on the Puritans and their teachings on the Bible, God, covenant theology, salvation, the family, the church, and government.
Puritan teachings, their lifestyles, and worship grew out of their complete devotion to the Word of God.
Many regard English and American Puritanism as the most godly movement of the church of Jesus Christ known since the days of the Apostles themselves.
http://www.graceandtruthbooks.com/puritans/about.asp   (1482 words)

  
 Puritanism & Colonial Period: to 1700
Puritan writing reflected the character and scope of the reading public, which was literate and well-grounded in religion.
Puritans were children of the covenant; gave them a drive and a purpose to write.
Consider secular consequences of Puritan theology: the Puritans' attitudes toward Native Americans, ordinary life, witches, house servants, slavery, and infant damnation.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/chap1.html   (3480 words)

  
 Puritan Typology
The Puritan historians inherited these available models and added to them what they called a 'spiritualized,' or providential, dimension--that is, they sought to discover in past events possible divine meanings, just as a minister tried to discern the hidden truths of biblical passages.
Based on an ancient hermeneutic method (Hebrews 10:1), typology is the interpretation of Old Testament events, persons, and ceremonies as signs which prefigured Christ's fulfillment and new covenant with the apostolic church.
This produced interesting consequences; for example, Jonah's three days in the whale typologically parallels Christ's three days in the tomb, and Job's patience prefigures, or is a figura, of Christ's forbearance on the cross.
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/typology.htm   (832 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Puritans
However, the lack of a consistent theology was the less felt because of the great stress which the Puritans laid upon "serving God in spirit and in truth" — by feeling and conduct rather than by doctrine.
By it Presbyterianism was fully established; for the superintendents were abolished and all authority was transferred from individual ministers to four bodies, the Kirk Session, the Presbytery, the Provincial Synod, and the General Assembly.
In matters of Church government some kind of system became necessary and the Scottish Presbyterians evolved a plan, embodied in the First Book of Discipline which had been drawn up in the Edinburgh Assembly of 1560, and which was concerned chiefly with the congregation itself.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12581a.htm   (986 words)

  
 The Pilgrims and Puritans
Even as they emigrated to New England, they affirmed their "Englishness" and saw the main purpose of their new colony as being that of a biblical witness, a "city on a hill" which would set an example of biblical righteousness in church and state for Old England and the entire world to see.
So, by 1570, there had developed in England two parties- 1) those who favored this more rationalistic understanding of church and state, and 2) those who continued to insist that further purification of those two entities was required by Scripture and that England must now seize the spiritual opportunity so brilliantly described by John Foxe.
All children of the Reformation, they knew that salvation was by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
http://www.puritansermons.com/banner/logan1.htm   (1416 words)

  
 anglican
The association of Rev.Erasmus Stourton with Puritanism was further affirmed by M. Howley in his sketch on "The Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland" in Prowse's History of the Churches in Newfoundland, where the Anglican priest in Calvert's plantation is simply referred to as "the Puritan divine".
Most of the authors alleging Puritans in Newfoundland have in mind Independents or Congregationalists, those groups of dissenters who insisted that no compromise with the Church of England was possible and who espoused a radical break with what they perceived to be an apostate church.
While many Puritans during Elizabethan times were able to exist within the English Church, Separatists were incapable of such compromise and defined themselves sociologically in local and congregationally autonomous groups.
http://www.mun.ca/rels/ang/texts/ang1.html   (9324 words)

  
 An Unforgiven Puritan -- Biography Rev. Stephen Bachiler
Meanwhile in England the Puritan party was disputing the supremacy of the established church.
It is almost inconceivable that the ardent and spiritual Knollys, the founder of the Baptist church, could have sullied with that filthy and indelible stain a life otherwise pure.
Elizabeth was sometimes Puritan and sometimes Prelatic; but her best advisers were of the new religion.
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilerunforgiven.htm   (8449 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 32, No. 4 - January 1976 - EDITORIAL - Pursuing the Puritan Ethic
But for the church, the Puritan ethic provides one resource for proclaiming again that we are saved not by what we do but by what God has done for us in Jesus Christ.
At a time when the future seems closed, the church has an opportunity for reminding people that the future is not ours but God's, that the meaning of our lives is not defined by our jobs but by God's grace.
As Sydney E. Ahlstrom has put it, there is "a steady line of progression from the Puritan doctrine of vocation to the Yankee gospel of work, and from that, in due course, to the Gilded Age's gospel of wealth."
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1976/v32-4-editorial1.htm   (1643 words)

  
 Main Page - A Puritan's Mind
The Puritan era has been the most godly and pious age since the birth of the early church and the apostles.
Everything past this is undeserved grace to us and great glory to Him; for this is the chief end of all things which exist--God's glory.
It is only here (where theology and practice meet) that he is able to come into a deeper and more intimate knowledge of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
http://www.apuritansmind.com/MainPage.htm   (383 words)

  
 Baptist: Their Historical Relation to the Protestant Reformation And the Roman Catholic Church
Powell was definitely of Puritan persuasion within the Established Church, but by 1655 his church in Wales was baptistic at least, for records reveal that he had been recently rebaptized.
In 1638 a church was organized, and by 1639 it was practicing believer's baptism, Williams having been baptized by a church member.
But to claim identification with them as modern Baptists is neither in keeping with the facts of history nor the great differences of belief and practice.
http://www.biblicalstudies.com/bstudy/ecclesiology/baptism.htm   (3528 words)

  
 Our English Heritage
If you have a bit of an understanding of the above, you start to see that the concept we Americans often have of Puritans is just a tad bit oversimplified, that is, the concept of a group of religious fanatics who placed a great focus on religion in their lives.
The Church of England became more and more the church of the royal and elite and the Puritans and protestants the church of the common man. He married married a Catholic, the Princess Henrietta Maria, of France, only making the problem worse.
He detested the Scottish Presbyterians and tried to force the Puritans to conform to the Anglican church or he would "harry them out of the land".
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 Puritan Paperbacks
One of the most critical errors of modern seeker churches is the decline in importance of what is preached from their pulpits.
One of few Puritan treatises with much to say about the doctrine of adoption.
Owen is very insistent that believers cannot hope to succeed in this battle in their own strength.
http://www.hisglory.us/specials/Puritan_paperbacks.htm   (2333 words)

  
 Is the Puritan Movement Dead-Ended?
Again, where Puritanism had God and his glory as its unifying centre, our thinking revolves round ourselves as if we were the hub of the universe.
Seeing these things and knowing as they did the ways and means whereby the Spirit brings sinners to faith and new life in Christ, and leads saints to grow up into their Saviour's image by growing downwards into humility and an increasing dependence on grace, the Puritans became superb pastors in their own day.
What he said then of the 1958 Conference he has repeated almost word for word in the foreword of the recently published book, Introduction to Puritan Theology.
http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=486   (1974 words)

  
 Puritanism in England
After 1646, however, the Puritan emphasis upon individualism and the individual conscience made it impossible for the movement to form a national Presbyterian church, and by 1662, when the Anglican church was re-established, Puritanism had become a loose confederation of various Dissenting sects.
Puritanism first emerged as an organized force in England among elements -- Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists, for example -- dissatisfied with the compromises inherent in the religious settlement carried out under Queen Elizabeth in 1559.
he Puritan movement was a broad trend toward a militant, biblically based Calvinistic Protestantism -- with emphasis upon the "purification" of church and society of the remnants of "corrupt" and "unscriptural" "papist" ritual and dogma -- which developed within the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Church of England.
http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/puritan.html   (312 words)

  
 Puritan Belief
The Puritans are the men of God who started in the 16th century building on the purity of the gospel message that Salvation is by Grace alone.
So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this [I will raise it up]; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
http://puritanbelief.blogspot.com   (1773 words)

  
 The Puritan, by Thomas Middleton
But come, let's follow after to the prison, and know the nature of his offence; and what we can stead him in, he shall be sure of.
Tantlings: St. Antlings was another name for the Puritan church of St. Antholin on Watling Street.
And I'll uphold it still, that a charitable knave is better than a soothing Puritan.
http://www.tech.org/~cleary/purit.html   (15507 words)

  
 Puritan Meditation Tradition
The meditation tradition that began with Ignatius Loyola became transformed for Puritans in
Campbell, Donna M. "Puritan Meditation Tradition." Literary Movements.
Francis de Sales: "When we think of heavenly things, not to learn but to love them, that is called to meditate: and the exercise thereof, Meditation."
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/meditat.htm   (597 words)

  
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 Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
Students of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregations and the Free Reformed Churches attend for their theological training; students outside of these denominations are accepted on the basis of adherence to the Three Forms of Unity or the Westminster Standards, and meeting the basic admissions requirements.
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary has beenfully accredited by the Association of Reformed Theological Seminaries (ARTS), an organization of about ten seminaries that adhere to either the Three Forms of Unity or the Westminster Standards.
ABOUT US Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary was born in May of 1995,with classes officially commencing in August, 1995.
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 Species Profile for Puritan tiger beetle
USFWS Refuges on which the Puritan tiger beetle is reported.
Federal Register documents that apply to the Puritan tiger beetle.
The Puritan tiger beetle was first listed on August 07, 1990.
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 Quaker Proscecutions
Quakers, like Puritans, had their origins in the hotbed of European religious dissent.
Quakers, both men and women, are to "be stripped naked
In addition to the many Quakers who suffered abroad, there were some who felt called to go further afield.
http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/quakers.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Puritan Books
The writers and theologians of the past possessed a more pure and bold message than what is heard from the pulpit in the average church in North America today.
Puritan Sermons 70 + DIVINES 6 VOLUMES 1641
G S Faber ORIGIN of PAGAN IDOLATRY 1816 6-VOL SET
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 Puritan
a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a moral puritan; puritanical.
http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/Puritan   (86 words)

  
 Anxiety Culture: The Puritan Work Ethic
To sweeten their view of work and provide positive motivation, the Puritans believed that honest toil, if persevered with, led to mundane and spiritual rewards.
Puritan sects were greatly over-represented among the early major industrialists (quoted in Ashton’s History of the Industrial Revolution), and their belief that suffering is required to redeem our ‘original sin’ as human beings became part of their work ethic.
A strange effect of the ‘dark ages’ view of work as atonement, is the idea that we should enjoy it, or at least try to look as if we’re enjoying it.
http://www.anxietyculture.com/puritan.htm   (1145 words)

  
 THE PURITAN STORM
The Puritan Storm was essentially the brain-child of Jeff Ziegler, President of Christian Evangelistic Endeavors, Reformation Bible Institute, and Moderator of the Association of Free Reformed Churches.
A growing number of Christians will be introduced to the neo-Puritan revival which is now in its ascendancy.
This publication will teach charismatics and evangelicals the biblical principles for the reformation of America.
http://www.forerunner.com/puritan/puritan.html   (501 words)

  
 The Puritan Tradition and American Memory
What will follow from that will be a view of subsequent historical fashionings of both Pilgrim and Puritan, as they have been converted into both myth and ideological argument.
Within them one searches for the what seems must be there, the 'Puritan Mind', even as one realizes simply from the differing historical interpretations-- 'scientific', revisionist, 'new-historical', and otherwise--that such a thing, if it could and did exist, will always be but inadequately known.
The Pilgrims, because of their lack of these traits, have had a plasticity of meaning, have provided a useful malleability to the fashioning of 'American' tradition.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PURITAN/purmain.html   (932 words)

  
 Puritan
The term also covers the separatists who withdrew from the church altogether.
The Puritans were characterized by a strong conviction of human sinfulness and the wrath of God and by a devotion to plain living and hard work.
The term puritan is usually applied to those Protestants who wished to remain in the Church of England, but wanted it to be further reformed after the break with Rome.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013871.html   (292 words)

  
 Alternate History : Puritan World
It is a world where an American Revolution happened earlier, and in a much nastier fashion, where secularism never really took root, and where in most fields of endeavour the world is less advanced than the real world.
This lead to the restoration of Charles I to the throne in 1657, and the persecution of the Protestants who fought against him.
Puritan world is an alternate history inspired by the 'Batman: Holy Terror' comic book and the Puritan world from 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright' comic book (Parallel 00.72.87), to which the characters from my London Champions game were mentally kidnapped.
http://www.clockworksky.net/puritan_world/ah_pw_top.html   (716 words)

  
 Hall of Church History—The Puritans
Their doctrine tended to be Calvinistic and Presbyterian, and their finest writings were both polemic and devotional treatments of theology.
They were frustrated by the slow progress of the Reformation in the Anglican Church.
The Puritan section from Clay McKinney's ordered list of significant events in church history.
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/puritans.htm   (209 words)

  
 Puritan Awakening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seeking religious exile, John Winthrop led a saving remnant of true believers to America.
In England, this Puritan enthusiasm led to the Long Parliament in 1640, civil war, and the execution of Charles I of England in 1649.
The Puritan Awakening (1621-1649) began with the English Parliament's Great Protestation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_Awakening   (117 words)

  
 BuyCostumes -- Puritan Hat Child
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 Puritan Press - Commercial Printer, Hollis Publishing - Academic Publishing
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 Puritan Childhood - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Students will be introduced to how belief systems (ideology) influence the way people perceive their world, why conformity is often considered the basis of a successful and thriving community, and how interpretation is often the product of one's environment (political/social).
I, Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 2001.), such as letters written by Puritan children (these have concerns of Puritan youth--worry over salvation); also included are letters by parents on their views and expectations of the proper child.
The sources are easily located (interlibrary loan for Hollitz text) and, according to copyright laws, one chapter may be copied from a text per standard semester.
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/History/HIS0201.html   (603 words)

  
 Puritan
Puritan then moved to Norfolk where she decommissioned 23 April 1910.
The revised design of the “repaired” Puritan called for two turrets, and with her suerpstructure, tall stack, and military mast, she had the characteristics which identified the monitors built between 1889 and 1903.
At Key West in early May, she departed the 20th to join the force then building under Rear Admiral William T. Sampson to move against Santiago.
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 Puritan's PrideCompany Info
Puritan's Pride had its beginnings over 40 years ago, when Arthur Rudolph, a pioneer in the vitamin business, had a vision to offer the finest quality products at the best value.
Each day, the automated fulfillment system, which was designed, in part, by our own engineers, picks over 100,000 products and ships them to over 15,000 households.
In the pages of the Puritan catalog, customers found value and variety like they had never seen before.
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 Puritan - International
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 Puritan Single-Use Products
For more than 80 years, Puritan has been responding to the needs of the medical and industrial customers.
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Puritan cards their cotton and other fibers to maintain quality control.
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 Welcome to Puritan Medical Products Company
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 Puritan Bennett Education Online Education
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