In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).

The early Presbyterians in America came from Scotland and Ireland.

English Anglicans, Scots-Irish Presbyterians, freed African slaves, German Lutherans, and descendants of French Huguenots came to outnumber the first Quaker settlers within a generation.

The first settlers were Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Protestants came soon afterward.

Ministers came during the summer months, Baptists and Presbyterians.

Thus the Presbyterians of the north, who were mainly republican in sentiment, combined with a section of the Roman Catholics to form the United Irishmen organisation, promoting revolutionary ideas imported from France ; and a party prepared to welcome a French invasion soon came into existence.

The EUB congregations in Canada joined into the United Church of Canada, the largest Protestant denomination in Canada formed in 1925 by Presbyterians ( 70 % came in ), Methodists, and Congregationalists.

In 1878, American Presbyterians held the first annual Niagara Bible Conference, founding the Christian fundamentalist movement, which took its name from the " Five Fundamentals " of 1910, and came to be concerned about the implications of evolution for the accuracy of the Bible.

Some of the early Canadian Presbyterians were United Empire Loyalists of Scots descent, and others came directly from Scotland, such as in the 1773 arrival of The Hector in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

American influences in the Canadas came first from Dutch Reformed missionaries from New York State, and later American Presbyterians from many different Presbyterian groupings.

Over the course of the 19th century the number of Presbyterians gradually increased and they came to dominate the church.

Presbyterian Christianity came to Australia with the arrival of Presbyterians from different Presbyterian denominations in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century.

Those who came to call themselves " Bible Presbyterians " saw the serious criticisms against Scofield's notes as a swipe against historic premillennialism itself, rather than merely the Dispensational form of premillennialism, and wanted the freedom to use the Scofield Reference Bible.

Some of the Baptist churches came alongside of the Puritan movement in England, and in doing so sought to agree as far as conscience allowed, in the Calvinistic form of doctrine which prevailed among the Presbyterians and many Congregationalists.

Shortly before the Restoration he came to England on a highly successful mission to gain for Charles the support of the Presbyterians.

The following year Charles, while he was being held captive in Carisbrooke Castle, entered into an agreement with moderate Scots Presbyterians.

It is generally considered that the point of such learning is to enable one to put one's faith into practice ; some Presbyterians generally exhibit their faith in action as well as words, by generosity, hospitality, and the constant pursuit of social justice and reform, as well as proclaiming the gospel of Christ.

Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s, and was sponsored by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Congregationalists.

In the South the Presbyterians were evangelical dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish Americans who expanded into Virginia between 1740 and 1758.

The merger essentially consolidated those moderate-to-liberal American Presbyterians into one body.

Originally settled almost entirely by immigrants of British and Irish stock, Worcester County was divided during the colonial period into several parishes, though Quakers, Presbyterians, and later Methodists also set up meeting houses.

Although the Hanover was largely founded by Presbyterians, it was not long before people of other religious persuasions began moving into the area.

Sectarian violence during the rebellion put an end to the growing reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Presbyterians, and the island divided anew into two hostile factions.

He formed the ministers in the country around him into an association, uniting them irrespective of their differences as Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Independents.

He had always distrusted the influence of many dissident and uncontrolled sects ; the history of independence in the English army and people made a deep impression on his mind, and the same fear of indiscipline which drove the English Presbyterians into royalism drew Turenne more and more towards the Roman Catholic Church.

These ministers turned the pulpit into a profession, thus emulating the Presbyterians and Episcopalians.

But, as Stone looked more deeply into the beliefs of the Presbyterians, especially the Westminster Confession of Faith, he doubted that some of the church beliefs were truly Bible-based.

The Presbyterians started working from the south ; the Cumberland Presbyterians worked from the north, as they had migrated into Tennessee from Kentucky.

, although the son of Presbyterians, "... owned he had never read the New Testament with attention ... had been at no pains to enquire into the truth of religion, and had continually turned his mind the other way " ( Boswell, p. 409 ).

He also helped lead the Methodists into a merger with Presbyterians to form the United Church of Canada.

Largely through the efforts of a charismatic preacher from New England named Shubal Stearns and paralleled by the New Side Presbyterians ( who were eventually reunited on their own terms with the Old Side ), they carried the Great Awakening into the southern colonies, igniting a series of the revivals that lasted well into the 19th century.

The Free Church brought into the union 1068 congregations, the United Presbyterians 593.

In 1970 too Anglican Pakistans, Presbyterians ( Church of Scotland ), United Methodists and Lutherans merge into the Church of Pakistan.

The Parliamentary success in the war brought by 1645 a new relationship into being between the Presbyterians and other Protestant groups, classified as Independents, such as the emerging Quakers and Congregationalists.

After it fell into ruin, it was replaced in 1654 and was probably served from the parish church in Standish but was later used by Presbyterians.

These first settlers included German Reformed and Lutherans in the east, British Quakers in the south and west, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the center of today's Guilford County.

The earliest settlers were mainly German Lutherans, German Reformed and Scotch or Scotch Irish Presbyterians who began settling in Cabarrus County in the 1750s.

Never tainted by the secessionist activities of the New England Federalists and adaptive enough to institute modern electioneering practices, they held the loyalty of the majority Anglican / Methodist downstate population against the seemingly more radical Presbyterians and Irish immigrants in New Castle County.

Though founded by a colony of Presbyterians and Congregationalists, the county in which the college is located was already named Knox County, after Henry Knox, the first United States Secretary of War.

It was founded by Cumberland Presbyterians in 1834 as Cane Hill College in Cane Hill, Arkansas in Washington County.

English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists would together ( with others ) come to be known as Nonconformists, because they did not conform to the Act of Uniformity ( 1662 ) establishing the Church of England as the only legally approved church, though they were in many ways united by their common confessions, built on the Westminster Confession.

The Presbyterians were quick to follow, establishing a presence in 1909.