Such warfare was at odds with both Puritan theology and accepted military practices. |
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The religious experiments of Archbishop Laud reactivated Puritan militancy. |
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Individuals who willfully refused to comply with Puritan precepts were excluded altogether from the promise of grace. |
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With all Puritan preachers, Biblical texts provided the fundamental concepts for religious discourse. |
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Andrea was amongst the first group of younger men to translate and print Puritan works in Italian while still a student in Rome. |
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On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed gentry. |
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To trace their sources one can turn to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritan thought and practice. |
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To the extent that Puritan discipline is derived from scripture only indirectly, some form of interpretation is occurring. |
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The generosity of Hooker's reading of Scripture made it accessible to those who could never belong to Puritan society. |
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The long arm of Puritan persecution continued to harass those who embraced dissenting views causing a Baptist migration to New Jersey. |
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A number of Puritan clerics in Old England harshly criticized their New England brethren for not converting the Indians before killing them. |
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The religious intensity of Puritan settlers infused every facet of life in seventeenth-century New England, including criminality. |
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Our data from the cemetery in Harvard Square, a bastion of Puritan religious and intellectual power, seems to demonstrate this point. |
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Up to this point, Puritan Sabbatarians argued a dual nature of the Fourth Commandment. |
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At an execution, a defendant in the Puritan colonies was expected to confess, and thus to save his soul. |
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Inside every one of us lies a Puritan streak which abhors anything smacking of frivolity or done for the sheer joy of it. |
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You can't walk into a police precinct with intimate knowledge about these murders and claim a 200 year-old Puritan is responsible. |
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Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants. |
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Early Puritan Baptists relied on some techniques for cultivating the spiritual life very similar to those used by medieval contemplatives. |
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The enthusiast for Puritan literature will welcome, read and apply the content of this book. |
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Prospero is an inherently unstable combination of Puritan reformer and absolutist ruler of the island. |
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He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith. |
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Having a child in this society was about as much a sin as being an adulteress in the Puritan society of The Scarlet Letter. |
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Puritan settlers maintained rule partly because they were America's first record-keepers. |
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So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. |
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His will provides a fascinating insight into his Puritan zeal and personal generosity. |
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She sets this change within the context of a wider intellectual shift from Puritan piety to the Enlightenment's faith in progress and the inherent goodness of man. |
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The young man had displeased both Increase and Cotton Mather, the archdeacons of the Puritan world. |
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The biblical language that the author recreates for her story further evokes Puritan regions. |
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The biggest mutual funds like to adorn themselves with high-minded monikers like Fidelity, Puritan, Flagship, and Strong American. |
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The Puritan charges to which Hooker felt obliged to respond were at times quite specific, either contrary to Scripture or unscriptural. |
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Twain's Puritan pessimism casts great doubt on humanity's ability to transcend the pettiness of human existence. |
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Hooker explicitly rejects the Puritan position, as he understands it, on the omnicompetence of Scripture. |
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During these difficult times he was faithfully supported and encouraged by his wife, who was descended from good Puritan stock. |
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The power of the Puritan clergy was maintained by their terrifying hellfire sermons. |
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Byrd only explains williams's response to Puritan hermeneutics. |
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That sure smacked of the divine right of kings and condemnation of the rebels of the Puritan revolution. |
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In colonial America, Puritan preachers often used a special sermon form to instruct, persuade, or convince their hearers to change their actions or thoughts. |
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Yet, strangely, we know we aren't in the presence of a latter-day Puritan. |
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When the rector of the Cambridge Anglican church, East Apthorp, printed comments that attacked the Puritan basis of Congregationalism, he responded with an attack of his own. |
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Through the first Puritan settlers, the predestinarian theology of Augustine and Calvin was injected into the mainstream of American theology and intellectual life. |
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Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth. |
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One day your mind will be liberated from the horribleness of your masochistic Puritan upbringing and you will revel in proper laziness, like in Europe. |
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Our Puritan fathers lived on parched corn, but they talked about God. |
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Founded in 1635 as the first Puritan settlement above tidewater, the town appears connected to its past, even after nearly 370 years of growth and change. |
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In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex. |
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In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism. |
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Shakespeare's work in particular was considered to antithetical to God's will and works of his that found their way into Puritan hands were burned. |
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Of the Mayflower colonists at Plymouth there were only 35 members of an identifiable Puritan congregation, with 67 other migrants ranging from entrepreneurs to vagrants. |
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At least in premodern Europe and Puritan North America, witch-hunting follows certain patterns. |
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Like the Puritan ancestors he never succeeded in escaping, he found fault with just about everything, especially himself. |
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Eventually, Charles I will be overthrown, and the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell will take power. |
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The mindsets of both Cavalier and Puritan took root in the New World, and the experiment launched in 1776 continues. |
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As soon as the previous Puritan regime's ban on public stage representations was lifted, drama recreated itself quickly and abundantly. |
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Grindal was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1575 and chose to oppose even the Queen in his desire to forward the Puritan agenda. |
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Instructions were given to the translators that were intended to limit the Puritan influence on this new translation. |
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The committees included scholars with Puritan sympathies, as well as High Churchmen. |
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He went on to study at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, then a recently founded college with a strong Puritan ethos. |
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He had become a committed Puritan and had established important family links to leading families in London and Essex. |
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A Puritan regime strictly enforced the Sabbath, and banned almost all form of public celebration, even at Christmas. |
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During the 1640s, when Charles was still young, his father fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. |
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In 1620, Plymouth was founded as a haven for Puritan religious separatists, later known as the Pilgrims. |
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It was relatively successful until the Puritan Revolution or English Civil War in the 17th century. |
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The early Puritan movement was a movement for reform in the Church of England. |
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In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. |
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Ideas of nonconforming Protestants during the Puritan Reformation of the Church of England laid foundation for these churches. |
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The Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell, however, suppressed Whitsun Ales and other such festivities. |
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All theatres were closed down by the Puritan government during the Interregnum. |
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This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy. |
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The principal John Wilkinson was a Puritan, and he had some influence on Hobbes. |
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Their tone, however, stemmed from the Puritan emphasis on the centrality and inviolability of conscience. |
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As soon as the previous Puritan regime's ban on public stage representations was lifted, the drama recreated itself quickly and abundantly. |
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Calvinism developed through the Puritan period, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and within Wales' Methodist movement. |
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The most famous emigration to America was the migration of Puritan separatists from the Anglican Church of England. |
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The ban was revoked in 1681 by Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban against festivities on Saturday night. |
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When the Puritan leaders protested against this brutality, Carter sent four of them home in chains. |
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New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. |
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In his early life he was a Puritan, though towards the end of his life he became a Quaker. |
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Economically, Puritan New England fulfilled the expectations of its founders. |
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Williams was a Puritan who preached religious tolerance, separation of Church and State, and a complete break with the Church of England. |
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The Puritan colonies of New England formed a confederation to coordinate military and judicial matters. |
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Among Puritan settlers in New England, wives almost never worked in the fields with their husbands. |
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Morgan Llwyd, a Puritan, wrote in both English and Welsh, recounting his spiritual experiences. |
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In the early 17th century, Sempringham was a centre of the Puritan movement in Lincolnshire. |
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Samuel Skelton, curate of Sempringham, sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1628 with the first group of Puritan settlers, who landed in Salem. |
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He became, after John Parry, the earliest Puritan church leader in Wales and was a direct influence on fellow churchman, Walter Cradock. |
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The Puritan toleration lasted six years, and included all but Papists, Prelatists and those who held objectional doctrines. |
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Several members of the Puritan Bennett family also settled there, including Richard Bennett. |
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The tale is of interest because it was known to the New England Puritan divine, Cotton Mather. |
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Although the newer, Puritan colonies, most notably Massachusetts, were dominated by Parliamentarians, the older colonies sided with the Crown. |
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As a churchman he was typically Anglican, equally removed from the Puritan and the Roman positions. |
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The warning was accepted by the Commons, and no more action was taken on the two Puritan bills. |
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Another source was 17th century speech in East Anglia and Lincolnshire where many of the Puritan immigrants originated. |
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He was a Puritan and was the first of the family to emigrate from England, settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts before moving to Salem. |
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Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. |
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Almost immediately his Puritan views resulted in his being viewed as a dangerous schismatic. |
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The federally threatened and state endangered Puritan tiger beetle undergoes its entire life cycle on or near these cliffs. |
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Its chapter on Milton supports McLoone's depiction of a poet perennially negotiating the conflict between establishmentarian authority and Puritan independency. |
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He credited the Puritan divine Byfeld with incircumscriptibleness, Doctor Benson with antidisestablishmentarians, and William Gladstone with disestablishmentarianism. |
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Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England, combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. |
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In the 17th century, political and religious disputes raised the Puritan and Presbyterian faction to control of the church, but this ended with the Restoration. |
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They were defended by Francis Knollys, one of the few remaining Puritan Members of Parliament, while other Puritans spat and coughed to drown out speeches by opponents. |
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The purpose of the Westminster Assembly, in which 121 Puritan clergymen participated, was to provide official documents for the reformation of the Church of England. |
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An example is the American Thanksgiving dinner, which may not be formal, yet is ostensibly based on an event from the early Puritan settlement of America. |
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Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister wrote that the coast had been plagued by pirates and his congregation wished they could be rid of this nuisance. |
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This listed the sports that were permitted on Sundays and other holy days, and was published to counteract the growing Puritan calls for strict abstinence on the Sabbath day. |
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The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies together spawned other Puritan colonies in New England, including the New Haven, Saybrook, and Connecticut colonies. |
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The Pilgrims were a small group of Puritan separatists who felt that they needed to physically distance themselves themselves from the Church of England. |
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Excise was introduced in the mid 17th century under the Puritan regime. |
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East Anglia was the centre of what became the Puritan movement. |
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Although Marvell became a Parliamentarian, he was not a Puritan. |
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He showed signs of sympathy to Puritanism, attending the sermons of the Puritan chaplain of Gray's Inn and accompanying his mother to the Temple Church to hear Walter Travers. |
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In Boston, founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop, an early celebration was held in 1685, the same year that James II assumed the throne. |
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Low churchmen wanted to tolerate Puritan opinions within the Church of England, though they might not be in agreement with Puritan liturgical practices. |
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The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists, eventually led to the formation of various Reformed denominations. |
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Elizabeth's father, Sir James Bourchier, was a London leather merchant who owned extensive lands in Essex and had strong connections with Puritan gentry families there. |
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He became an Independent Puritan after undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. |
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Although the newer, Puritan settlements in North America, most notably Massachusetts, were dominated by Parliamentarians, the older colonies sided with the Crown. |
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A body within the Puritan movement in the Church of England sought to abolish the office of bishop and remake the Church of England along Presbyterian lines. |
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That gathering proposed a new English version in response to the perceived problems of earlier translations as detected by the Puritan faction of the Church of England. |
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The war was only partly about religion, but the abolition of prayer book and episcopacy by a Puritan Parliament was an element in the causes of the conflict. |
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The failure of political and ecclesiastical authorities to submit to Puritan demands for more extensive reform was one of the causes of open warfare. |
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