Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, for example, blue laws dating to the Puritans of the 17th century still prohibit most retail stores, including grocery stores, from opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

Initial settlement in the nearby Pioneer Valley was by English Puritans whereas Blandford's Scots-Irish settlers were Presbyterian and their English was still somewhat influenced by Gaelic.

The Connecticut River still follows this rift valley, known as Pioneer Valley for its early settlement by English Puritans.

The Puritans knew this, yet they forced the Long Water people to teach the children that Hobbomock was a “ Bogeyman .” The Puritans redefined Hobbomock, Maushop, and other Quinnipiac spirit helpers as “ devils .” Some Puritan descendants still maintain a paternalistic attitude towards Quinnipiac traditionalists and refuse to acknowledge even their existence, by choosing to hold on to the misconception that the Quinnipiac have vanished from the earth.

He still found nothing funny about it, due to his finding its treatment of Puritans too vicious and being insensitive to the humour of the rhymes.

" Puritans were opposed to the Christmas pie, on account of its connection with Catholicism.

Pierre Cartier, in the article cited above, is quoted as later saying The Bourbaki were Puritans, and Puritans are strongly opposed to pictorial representations of truths of their faith.

Puritans, influenced by Calvinism, opposed many of the traditions of the Protestant Church of England, including the Book of Common Prayer, the use of priestly vestments ( cap and gown ) during services, the use of the Holy Cross during baptism, and kneeling during the sacrament, all of which constituted " popery ".

Like many Puritans abhorring decadent celebrations he was strongly opposed to religious feast days, including Christmas, and revelry such as stage plays, and he included in his Histriomastix ( 1632 ) a denunciation of actresses which was widely felt to be an attack of Queen Henrietta Maria.

As well as those who continued to recognize papal supremacy, the more militant Protestants, or Puritans as they became known, opposed it.

As a protector of the Puritans in England, he was seen as a natural ally by the " strict " faction of Calvinists in the Netherlands, who had opposed Orange's policy of " religious peace " and now were arrayed against the " lax " Dutch regents who favoured an Erastian Church order, a bone of contention for many years to come.

Playwrights also had a more immediate reason for this animosity ; Puritans had opposed the public theater almost from its inception.

He was opposed to the doctrine of total depravity and adopted a semi-Pelagian position, holding that man is the " child of reason " and therefore not, as the Puritans held, of a completely depraved nature.

Quakers and Puritans were both opposed to slavery.

As Puritans and Presbyterians, the gentry were opposed to Laud's beliefs and opposed to the idea of a parliament-independent monarchy.

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 ).

Most Puritans of this period were non-separating and remained within the Church of England, and Separatists who left the Church of England altogether were numerically much fewer.

The life of the Ferrar household was much criticised by Puritans, and they were denounced as Arminians, and their life attacked as a ' Protestant Nunnery '.

Bermuda spent much of the 18th Century in a protracted legal battle with the Bahamas ( which had itself been colonised by Bermudian Puritans in 1647 ) over the Turks Islands.

Other Puritans at the time, the Presbyterians and Congregationalists, also suffered persecution, but their numerical strength and influence allowed them to escape much of the persecution that Baptists suffered at the time.

He sought to evangelize the Raritan Valley through Reformed pietism, that also owed much to the theological thought of the Puritans as well.

Puritans by definition felt that the English Reformation had not gone deep enough, and that the Church of England was tolerant of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church.

Peter Gay writes of the Puritans ' standard reputation for " dour prudery " as a " misreading that went unquestioned in the nineteenth century ", commenting how unpuritanical they were in favour of married sexuality, and in opposition to the Catholic view of virginity, citing Edward Taylor and John Cotton.

In this sense, the Articles are a revealing window into the ethos and character of Anglicanism, in particular in the way the document works to navigate a via media, or " middle path ," between the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church and of the English Puritans, thus lending the Church of England a mainstream Reformed air.

In 1689, partly as a result of the Protestant Revolution of 1688 in England that exiled Catholic King James II and brought in Dutch rulers William and Mary of Orange, Puritans rose up in Maryland and deposed the Catholic Maryland government.

Like other customs associated with popular Catholic Christianity, it earned the disapproval of Protestant Puritans.

Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.

Quakerism began as an evangelical Christian movement in 17th century England, eschewing priests and all formal Anglican or Roman Catholic sacraments in their worship, including many of those practices that remained among the stridently Protestant Puritans such as baptism with water.

Catholic recusant Mr. George Metcalfe, lived here and refused the quartering of David Leslie, Lord Newark's Covenanters during the English Civil War, so the Puritans therefore sequestered the manor from him in 1645.

However, they called themselves καθαροι (" katharoi ") or " Puritans " reflecting their desire not to be identified with what they considered the lax practices of a corrupted Catholic Church.

This Gothic church retains some Catholic relics, although Puritans during the English Civil War vandalised features as statues.

Meanwhile, the English had a denominational mix, from Catholic Augustine Baker to Anglicans William Law, John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes, to Puritans Richard Baxter and John Bunyan ( The Pilgrim's Progress ), to the first " Quaker ", George Fox and the first " Methodist ", John Wesley, who was well-versed in the continental mystics.

" In 1908 during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a Roman Catholic diocese in the Puritans ' Boston, Archbishop William Henry O ' Connell ... set the tone for the fast-growing church's next phase stating " he Puritan has passed.

It was consecrated by William Laud in his capacity as Bishop of London ; his vestments and the form of service that he used in the ceremony were later held against him in his trial and conviction for heresy, when he was accused by Puritans of having displayed Catholic sympathies through his " bowings and cringings.

The Bye Plot of 1603 was a conspiracy by Roman Catholic priests and Puritans aiming at religious toleration for their respective denominations, to kidnap the new English King, James I.

The continued inconsistency between the Articles of Religion and the Prayer Book remained a point of contention for Puritans ; and would in the 19th century come close to tearing the Church of England apart, through the course of the Gorham judgement.

Charles's last years were marked by the English Civil War, in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, whilst simultaneously using his position as head of the English Church to pursue religious policies which generated the antipathy of reformed groups such as the Puritans.

In January 1604, King James VI of Scotland and I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

The Church of England of the Interregnum was run on presbyterian lines, but never became a national presbyterian church such as existed in Scotland, and England was not the theocratic state which leading Puritans had called for as " godly rule ".

With only minor changes, the Church of England was restored to its pre-Civil War constitution under the Act of Uniformity 1662, and the Puritans found themselves sidelined.

Puritans who felt that the Reformation of the Church of England was not to their satisfaction but who remained within the Church of England advocating further reforms are known as non-separating Puritans.

Those who felt that the Church of England was so corrupt that true Christians should separate from it altogether are known as separating Puritans or simply as Separatists.

The word " Puritan " is applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches ( and religious groups within the Anglican Church ) from the later 16th century onwards, and Puritans did not originally use the term for themselves, considering that it was a term of abuse that first surfaced in the 1560s.

Within the church, William Lamont argues, the Elizabethan millennial views of John Foxe became sidelined, with Puritans adopting instead the " centrifugal " views of Brightman, while the Laudians replaced the " centripetal " attitude of Foxe to the ' Christian Emperor ' by the national and episcopal Church closer to home, with its royal head, as leading the Protestant world iure divino ( by divine right ).

" Nevertheless, other denominations, such as the Baptists, Methodists, Seventh-day Adventist Church as well as Puritans and Shakers, have embraced the term " People of the Book.

Unlike Puritans, who sought to reform the Church of England, Separatists believed that the Church of England was beyond reform and wished to break from it to form independent congregations.

Finally, the Puritans were devoted to what they regarded as building Christ ’ s Church in a strange and dangerous wilderness, and had little interest in chronicling the history and ways of peoples they regarded as heathen savages.

The church was a Congregational Church, stemming from the Puritans.

Eventually the parliamentarians won the Civil War and established the Commonwealth of England, in which alehouses were shut on Sundays and theatres and race meetings abandoned: the Puritans visited the then Church of England houses of worship and destroyed anything they thought to be idolatrous.