That it remained intact is remarkable because little religious pictorial art survived the Puritan iconoclasm that followed the execution of Charles I.

In this he played Sir Francis Walsingham, head of Elizabeth's secret service, and a noted Puritan, whose work exposed the Babington Plot which led to the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

In 1630, aboard the ship Arbella, Puritan preacher John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon Shining city upon a hill.

The origin of the first theme, later known as American Exceptionalism, was often traced to America's Puritan heritage, particularly John Winthrop's famous " City upon a Hill " sermon of 1630, in which he called for the establishment of a virtuous community that would be a shining example to the Old World.

The Isle of Gulls ( printed 1606 ), a prose comedy founded upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, contains in its light dialogue much satire to which the key is now lost, but Algernon Charles Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. Chadband in Bleak House.

The phrase entered the American lexicon early in its history, in the Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon " A Model of Christian Charity ".

* City upon a Hill, a line from a famous sermon by Puritan John Winthrop frequently invoked in discussions of American exceptionalism.

The term " little England " predates its political usage ; the expression " this little England " was used in the Gunpowder Day sermon of the English Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker ( 5 November 1626 ).

He publicly preached against the Trinity and the Congregationalist ( those holding the Puritan / Calvinist ideals that only the elect receive salvation ) churches split in half.

Dissenters ( Protestants not conforming to the Church of England ) recruited and preached to the poor of the city, and various offshoots of the Puritan and " Independent " ( Baptist ) movements increased their numbers substantially.

the Puritans as a political entity largely disappeared, but Puritan attitudes and ethics continued to exert an influence on American society.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

Mather, as a Puritan thinker and social conservative, drew on the language of the Bible to speak to contemporary audiences.

The literature on Puritans, particularly biographical literature on individual Puritan ministers, became large already in the 17th century, and indeed the interests of Puritans in the narratives of early life and conversions made the recording of the internal lives important to them.

Like some of Reformed churches on the European continent, Puritan reforms were typified by a minimum of ritual and decoration and by an unambiguous emphasis on preaching.

Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.

“ Fathers and mothers have ‘ disordered and disobedient children ,’” said the Puritan Richard Greenham, “ because they have been disobedient children to the Lord and disordered to their parents when they were young .” Because the duty of early childcare fell almost exclusively on women, a woman's salvation necessarily depended upon the observable goodness of her child.

This suspicious regard of “ fondness ” and heavy emphasis on obedience placed pressures on the Puritan mother.

The ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban on festivities on Saturday nights.

Puritan theology was based on the Calvinist notion that not everyone would be saved ; there was only a specific number of the elect who would avoid damnation, and this was based sheerly on God's predetermined will and not on any action you could perform in this life.

He contends that Paine draws on the Puritan tradition in which " theology was wedded to politics and politics to the progress of the kingdom of God ".

New England Universalists rejected the Puritan forefathers ' emphasis on the select few, the Elect, who were reportedly saved from eternal damnation by a just God.

* Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament, an attack on Anglican bishops, in London.

The Puritan faction, long powerful in London, gained control of the city early in the English Civil War, and on September 2, 1642 ordered the closure of the London theatres.

Blur's official Twitter and Facebook pages announced that the band would release two singles " The Puritan " and " Under the Westway " on 2 July.

Served around Christmas, the savoury Christmas pie ( as it became known ) was associated with supposed Catholic " idolatry " and during the English Civil War was frowned on by the Puritan authorities.

Confronted by a Puritan friend with rumours about his " ungodly life ", Dudley defended himself in 1576: I stand on the top of the hill, where ... the smallest slip seemeth a fall ...

Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ) and Religious Courtship ( 1722 ).

In 1564 Cartwright opposed Thomas Preston in a theological disputation held on the occasion of Elizabeth's state visit, and in the following year brought attention to the Puritan attitude on church ceremonial and organization.

Its immediate occasion was the disputation at Heidelberg ( 1568 ) for the doctorate of theology by George Withers, an English Puritan ( subsequently Archdeacon of Colchester ), silenced ( 1565 ) at Bury St Edmunds by Archbishop Parker.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama.

After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama.

Four public works by Borglum are in Newark, NJ: Seated Lincoln ( 1911 ), Indian and Puritan ( 1916 ), Wars of America ( 1926 ), and a bas-relief, " First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark " ( 1916 ).

Meanwhile public opinion in England had been prepared by the Puritan movement for a sympathetic treatment of any proposal by the Judaizing sects among the extremists of the Parliamentary party for the readmission of the Jews into England.

A democrat by conviction, he combined a Puritan determination in carrying reforms with a gentle manner and a scrupulous respect for the traditional rules and courtesies of public debate.

During the Interregnum ( 1642 – 1660 ), all public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers.

Puritan and humorless, at least in public, he had a total disregard for public opinion.

He would continue his Puritan campaigning in his journalism and novels, but never again with public satire of this sort.

The public stage ban 1642 – 1660 imposed by the Puritan regime represents a long and sharp break in dramatic tradition, but was still never completely successful in suppressing the ideologically hateful make-believe of play-acting.

The reason for Rutland House being used rather than a conventional theatre was to overcome the laws of censorship which operated in all public places following the closures of all public theatres by the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell.

Special permission had to be obtained from the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell as dramatic performances were outlawed and all public theatres closed.

Many Puritan landowners went even further, forbidding their workers to attend any church ales, culminating in two Somerset circuit judges ruling in 1632 that " all public ales be henceforth utterly suppressed ".