Life In Puritan Times

Life during the Puritan colonies were based upon God’s law. They believed the bible was the key to salvation. They also believed that people were either born sinful, and bound to a life in Hell, or they were destined to to be saved. The only thing that could save their life was purity and pray. Puritans believed in hard work and discipline in life with religious jobs. People who were engaging in sinful activities were humiliated in public and punished for their sinful acts.

Puritan times were similar in some of the ways, compared to modern times. There are still a lot of people who are very religious and believe in different God’s and practice many religions in the modern times just like the Puritans believed in living a very religious life.
People in the modern day still do believe that no man is above God, God is above all, he is the law. This concept is the same concept that the Puritans practiced as well. The Puritans also believed that when you commit sins, bad thing will happen which is similar to modern time because there are some things that people do that others feel they will go to hell for.

The puritans were also different than modern day time.
One way is because they were very strict about the laws they believed in. In modern day we are not so much restricted to the things that we are supposed to abide to, there are some people who does not believe in God and actually feel that there is no God, which is different from the Puritan times, because if you did not believe in anything then you were heretical, and could be accused of practicing witchcraft or even working with the devil. Also the puritans believed in a life of hard work which is way different from modern day time, because I know a lot of people don’t work hard in the things that they do, like for instance school work. Also, a lot of people in the modern day time don’t have a lot of self-discipline like the Puritans had. The way the Puritans conducted their trials was very different, from how modern day courts function. We need more than verbal evidence, because just accusing someone of a crime does not necessarily mean they committed that crime. There needs to be physical evidence that matches the accusing of the crime, and key witness that can also testify.

The puritans lived a strict and conformed lifestyle, whereas modern day time is basically a free for all type of time. We are not restricted like the Puritans was. We both practice many different religions and still believe there is a devil. But we don’t work as hard as the Puritans do. Nor do we have self-discipline like the Puritans did. Putting
this all together modern day time was influenced by previous history with less restrictions and a more mixture of different practices.