Puritanism
Puritanism
Puritans were groups of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
The Puritans roots came from the English Reformation. Some of the puritans liked a Presbyterian form of church, others, wanted to stay within the structure of the national church but set themselves against the doctrinal and liturgical vestiges of Catholic tradition, especially the vestments that symbolized episcopal authority. Puritans were often portrayed by their enemies as people who slavishly followed their bibles guides to daily life and were also thought of as hypocrites. A group of separatist believers in the Yorkshire village of Scrooby, started to fear for their safety so the ended up moving to Holland in 1608. Later, in 1620, to the place they called Plymouth in New England A decade later, a larger, better-financed group, mostly from East Anglia, migrated to Massachusetts Bay. A few more years went by and in 1638 the first printing press arrived and the puritans were the first to write books for children. Once the 1640’s came around Massachusetts bay had grown to about ten thousand persons, and the land was scarce within the borders of the swelling towns, ecclesiastical quarreling, and sheer restlessness of spirit, they had outgrown the bounds of the original settlement and spread into what would become Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine, and eventually beyond the limits of New England (Delbanco). The Puritan migration was a migration of whole families instead of large numbers of young, single men. King Charles I was pushing the Puritan life away. He had so many religious rules that were dissolved by Parliament, but soon he started ruling for himself. King Charles I was executed not long after because of the way he was ruling.
When the Puritans set sail for America is was because America promised religion
Puritans were groups of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
The Puritans roots came from the English Reformation. Some of the puritans liked a Presbyterian form of church, others, wanted to stay within the structure of the national church but set themselves against the doctrinal and liturgical vestiges of Catholic tradition, especially the vestments that symbolized episcopal authority. Puritans were often portrayed by their enemies as people who slavishly followed their bibles guides to daily life and were also thought of as hypocrites. A group of separatist believers in the Yorkshire village of Scrooby, started to fear for their safety so the ended up moving to Holland in 1608. Later, in 1620, to the place they called Plymouth in New England A decade later, a larger, better-financed group, mostly from East Anglia, migrated to Massachusetts Bay. A few more years went by and in 1638 the first printing press arrived and the puritans were the first to write books for children. Once the 1640’s came around Massachusetts bay had grown to about ten thousand persons, and the land was scarce within the borders of the swelling towns, ecclesiastical quarreling, and sheer restlessness of spirit, they had outgrown the bounds of the original settlement and spread into what would become Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine, and eventually beyond the limits of New England (Delbanco). The Puritan migration was a migration of whole families instead of large numbers of young, single men. King Charles I was pushing the Puritan life away. He had so many religious rules that were dissolved by Parliament, but soon he started ruling for himself. King Charles I was executed not long after because of the way he was ruling.
When the Puritans set sail for America is was because America promised religion