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  • In this sermon, he declared that the Puritan colonists emigrating to ... Winthrop was extremely religious and subscribed fervently to the Puritan ...
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  • Through his relationship with the Puritan leader, John Robinson Smyth ... December 4, 2007. With John Robinson, the Puritan pastor whose congregation ...
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  • she eloquently expressed the concerns of a Puritan wife and mother, giving ... England. She was the daughter of Puritan leader Thomas Dudley and ...
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  • Anne Marbury Hutchinson (July 17, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a leading religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership ...
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  • of the Westminster Assembly, in which 121 Puritan clergymen participated, ... “scholastic Calvinism”), influenced by Puritan and covenant theology. ...
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  • fiction, while Hawthorne brooded over the Puritan experience in his novels ... Letter, set in a seventeenth-century Puritan town, Hester Pryme is forced ...
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  • it was "an unseparated church"—Puritan yet still aligned with the ... this group was in trouble with the Puritan authorities. He advised ...
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  • children born to Erasmus and Mary Dryden, Puritan landowning gentry who supported ... his childhood. The Master of Trinity was a Puritan preacher by the name of ...
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  • Helwys' home became a haven for early puritan dissenters within the Church ... to tolerate any significant degree of puritan independence. In 1607, the ...
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  • ===A puritan sect=== [[Image:Byzantinischer Mosaizist um 1000 002.jpg ... of Tertullian, who had been a type of puritan himself and had joined the ...
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  • to refer to various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth ... quot;blue law" was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has ...
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  • conflict with Walter Travers, a leading Puritan and Assistant (Reader) at ... had been Roman Catholics while on earth. A Puritan clergyman criticized this ...
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  • of Elizabeth's reign went toward the puritan, which discouraged the liturgical polyphony. Tallis wrote nine psalm chant tunes in parts for ...
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  • ===Puritan roots=== were embodied by the Protestantism of Puritan settlers of New England ...
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  • was a particularly contentious time. The Puritan revolution had begun with ... became a place in which the anti-thesis to puritan values became manifest. ...
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  • , was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Mather descended from colonial New England's ...
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  • of his fiction, while Hawthorne brooded over the Puritan experience in his novels and short stories. The direct descendant of John Hawthorne, a presiding ...
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  • up preaching. He is identified with the Puritan tradition. Those not episcopally ... In theology, Bunyan was a Puritan, but contrary to stereotypes, there ...
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  • charges of Popery leveled against him by the Puritan element in the Church. In fact, he rejected the concept of the primacy of Rome, arguing that bishops ...
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  • a recently founded college with a strong Puritan ethos. Cromwell left without ... in bars and compel them to sing hymns. A puritan, he disliked the ritual ...
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