Many Puritans believed that creating a wound and inserting poison was doing violence and therefore was antithetical to the healing art.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

Puritans did not celebrate traditional holidays e. g. Christmas which they believed to be in violation of the regulative principles.

Puritans believed in demonic forces, as did almost all Christians of this period.

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.

Most of England believed that Parliament had done enough to curb the power of King Charles I, but the radicals in Parliament ( the extremist Puritans ) and the radicals around the country ( again, extremist Puritans ) wanted to reform the Church of England by getting rid of the bishops ( and all other things with the semblance of Catholicism ) and by establishing the Puritans ' method of worship as the standard.

The Jansenists, like the Puritans, believed themselves to be members of a gathered church called out of worldly society, and banded together in institutions like the Port-Royal convents seeking to lead lives of greater spiritual intensity.

Tocqueville believed that the Puritans established the principle of sovereignty of the people in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

She even goes so far as to tell Dimmesdale that their sin has been paid for by their daily penance and that their sin won't keep them from getting to heaven, however, the Puritans believed that such a sin surely condemns.

The Puritans believed that absolute truth was revealed to man once and for all in the Word of God, the Bible.

The Puritans, who believed in Congregationalist church governance, established town meetings In New England when they established the various New England colonies.

" Unlike the Pilgrims, who came to Massachusetts in 1620, the Puritans believed that the Church of England was a true church, though in need of major reforms.

The Puritans were said to have designed the green large enough to hold the number of people who they believed would be spared in the Second Coming of Christ: 144, 000.

He believed that this was the case in the Church of England that allowed all kinds of doctrinal variations under its wing, from crypto-Catholics to Puritans.

They believed that reason is the proper judge of all disagreements, and so they advocated dialogue between the Puritans and the High Churchmen.

Similarly, Puritans believed they had to separate from everything and everyone that believed things contrary to their beliefs.

In the 17th century many Puritans believed that the slightest action might lead to sin, and even to Hell if it was not repented.

" The Puritans found meaning in affliction, and they did not yet know why God was showing them disfavor through smallpox.

While Puritans expected mothers to care for their young children tenderly, a mother who doted could be accused of failing to keep God present.

The Reformers ( e. g. Puritans ), upholding the doctrine of justification by faith, held that repentance consisted in a change of the whole moral attitude of the mind and soul ( Matthew 13: 15 ; Luke 22: 32 ), and that the divine forgiveness preceded true repentance and confession to God without any reparation of " works.

The Puritans felt that if they were submissive to God that He would make them prosperous, but if they fell into sin, He would instead treat them with wrath.

As Puritans, the Ironsides often attributed their glory in battle to God.

Strict Puritans imagine God all too easily as a petty schoolmaster who minutely weights guilt against merit, and they overlook God's ' Caritas ' which is more all-encompassing and powerful.

The latter poem was unpublished, yet provides a lengthy commentary on the fears of Puritans that they would be stricken by God for their sin, and persecuted by House of Stuart.

The jeremiad was a favorite literary device of the Puritans especially in sermons like " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God " by Jonathan Edwards.

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.

James VI faced a fractious religious England since it contained Anglicans ( of the Anglican Church ( Church of England )), Puritans, Separatists ( who wanted to break from the Anglican Church ), and Catholics.

" He wanted the audience to be fully immersed into the culture of the period, " Over there is Mr Shakespeare rehearsing a play and having trouble with the Puritans ... over here are the preparations for Queen Elizabeth's visit ... in that house is a craftsman turning wooden bowls, and in that one a woman selling roast thrushes to take away while there is a house being built using genuine tools and skills and over there a Tudor ship.

The Puritans wanted to abolish the pomp and ceremony of the Church of England and base their church governance on a simple, consensual pattern.

As in the rest of Europe, various liberal thinkers such as Thomas More became prominent, but another important current was the emergence of the radical Puritans who wanted to reform both religion and the nation.

The Puritans of Massachusetts wanted to create a purified religion in New England.

Many of the Puritans ' names are qualities such as " Mercy ", " Thankful ", and " Grace ", because the parents wanted these character traits to influence their children.

His analysis showed the Puritans as providing the foundational values of America, based on their strong Hebrew Bible view of the world, which included fighting for earthly political justice, an emphasis on laws and education, and the " chosenness " which the Puritans identified with, giving them a sense of moral mission in founding America.

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.

He was severely criticized by the Puritans for failing to Christianize them, but Williams had arrived at the place in his own thinking that no valid church existed.

The Puritans ( whose phantasticall zeale I mislike ) though they differ in Ceremonies and accidentes, yet they agree with us in substance of religion, and I thinke all or the moste parte of them love his Majestie, and the presente state, and I hope will yield to conformitie.

Some of the Puritans, but by no means all, wore their hair closely cropped round the head, and there was thus an obvious contrast between them and the men of courtly fashion with their long ringlets.

He did concede to the Puritans by allowing them to create the " King James Bible " that was an " English " translation and interpretation of the Bible.

When the Puritans banned Christmas celebrations in the 17th century, they also passed specific legislation to outlaw such pies, calling them " Idolaterie in crust ".

These severely limited the rights of Catholics and nonconformists, such as the Puritans who had reached the zenith of their influence under the Commonwealth, effectively excluding them from national and local politics.

It is not that he was a theoretical Presbyterian, but the bishops had been in his days so fully engaged in the imposition of ceremonies regarded by the Puritans as verging on Papacy that it was difficult, if not impossible, to dissociate them from the cause in which they were embarked.

For two generations the Puritans had been revising Calvin's interpretation of God's word, and to them their revision was absolute truth, divine, and unquestionable.

Because the Puritans had undergone great hardships to put their ideals into practice, they should do their utmost to maintain them.

Such historians have doubts about traditional histories, characterizing them as hegemonic narratives that valorize Puritans at the expense of a " demonized " Native population.

They insisted that the Puritans conform to religious practices that they abhorred, removing their ministers from office and threatening them with " extirpation from the earth " if they did not fall in line.

Although the Quakers may have resembled the Puritans in some religious beliefs and practices, they differed with them over the necessity of compelling religious uniformity in society.

Vane was turned out of office in 1637 over the Hutchinson affair and his insistence on flying the English flag over the colony's fort — many Puritans felt that the Cross of St George on the flag was a symbol of popery and was thus anathema to them.

In the 17th century, Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers fleeing religious persecution in Europe brought with them plowshares, guns, and domesticated animals like cows and pigs.

In May 1624 he was charged before Parliament with high-handedness by the citizens of Norwich and in that same year he also persecuted the Puritans in Great Yarmouth, leading to a complaint by them to King Charles I in 1627.

Cole Porter makes a comic allusion to Plymouth Rock in the title song of the 1934 musical Anything Goes, imagining that if Puritans were to object to " shocking " modern mores, instead " of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them.