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ches 5 some puritan ideals including the formal rejection of roman catholicism were incorporated into the doctrines of the church of england the mother church of the worldwide anglican communion terminology edit main article definitions of puritanism gallery of famous 17th century puritan theologians thomas gouge william bridge thomas manton john flavel richard sibbes stephen charnock william bates john owen john howe and richard baxter in the 17th century the word puritan was a term applied not to just one group but to many historians still debate a precise definition of puritanism 6 originally puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain protestant groups as extremist thomas fuller in his church history dates the first use of the word to 1564 archbishop matthew parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler 7 puritans then were distinguished for being more intensely protestant than their protestant neighbors or even the church of england 8 as a term of abuse puritan was not used by puritans themselves those referred to as puritan called themselves terms such as the godly saints professors or god s children they had a passion for their truth which was according to matthew arnold a sort of cast iron product rigid definite and complete 9 10 11 non separating puritans were dissatisfied with the reformation of the church of england but remained within it advocating for further reform they disagreed among themselves about how much further reformation was possible or even necessary others who were later termed nonconformists separatists or separating puritans thought the church of england was so corrupt that true christians should separate from it altogether in its widest historical sense the term puritan includes both groups 12 13 puritans should not be confused with other radical protestant groups of the 16th and 17th centuries such as quakers seekers and familists who believed that individuals could be directly guided by the holy spirit the latter denominations give precedence to direct revelation over the bible 14 in current english puritan often means against pleasure in such usage hedonism and puritanism are antonyms 15 william shakespeare described the vain pompous killjoy malvolio in twelfth night as a kind of puritan 16 h l mencken archly defined puritanism as the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy 17 puritans embraced sexuality but placed it in the context of marriage peter gay writes that the puritans standard reputation for dour prudery was a misreading that went unquestioned in the nineteenth century he said they were in favour of married sexuality and opposed the catholic veneration of virginity associated with the virgin mary citing edward taylor and john cotton 18 one puritan settlement in western massachusetts banished a husband because he refused to fulfill his sexual duties to his wife 19 history edit main article history of the puritans puritanism had a historical importance over a period of a century followed by fifty years of development in new england it changed character and emphasis nearly decade by decade over that time elizabethan puritanism edit further information history of the puritans under elizabeth i the elizabethan religious settlement of 1559 established the church of england as a protestant church and brought the english reformation to a close during the reign of elizabeth i r 1558 1603 the church of england was widely considered a reformed church and calvinists held the best bishoprics and deaneries nevertheless it preserved certain characteristics of medieval catholicism such as cathedrals church choirs a formal liturgy contained in the book of common prayer traditional clerical vestments and episcopal polity 20 many english protestants especially those former marian exiles returning to england to work as clergy and bishops considered the settlement merely the first step in reforming england s church 21 the years of exile during the marian restoration had exposed them to the practices of the continental reformed churches the most impatient clergy began introducing reforms within their local parishes the initial conflict between puritans and the authorities included instances of nonconformity such as omitting parts of the liturgy to allow more time for the sermon and singing of metrical psalms some puritans refused to bow on hearing the name of jesus or to make the sign of the cross in baptism or to use wedding rings or the organ yet the main complaint puritans had was the requirement that clergy wear the white surplice and clerical cap 22 puritan clergymen preferred to wear black academic attire during the vestments controversy church authorities attempted and failed to enforce the use of clerical vestments while never a mass movement the puritans had the support and protection of powerful patrons in the aristocracy 23 in the 1570s the primary dispute between puritans and the authorities was over the appropriate form of church government many puritans believed that the church of england should follow the example of reformed churches in other parts of europe and adopt presbyterian polity under which government by bishops would be replaced with government by elders 24 but all attempts to enact further reforms through parliament were blocked by the queen despite such setbacks puritan leaders such as john field and james lynch continued to promote presbyterianism through the formation of unofficial clerical conferences that allowed puritan clergymen to organise and network this covert puritan network was discovered and dismantled during the marprelate controversy of the 1580s for the remainder of elizabeth s reign puritans ceased to agitate for further reform 25 jacobean puritanism edit further information history of the puritans under james i the accession of james i to the english throne brought the millenary petition a puritan manifesto of 1603 for reform of the english church but james wanted a religious settlement along different lines he called the hampton court conference in 1604 and heard the teachings of four prominent puritan leaders including laurence chaderton but largely sided with his bishops he was well informed on theological matters by his education and scottish upbringing and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of elizabethan puritanism pursuing an irenic religious policy in which he was arbiter many of james s episcopal appointments were calvinists notably james montague who was an influential courtier puritans still opposed much of the roman catholic summation in the church of england notably the book of common prayer but also the use of non secular vestments cap and gown during services the sign of the cross in baptism and kneeling to receive holy communion 26 some of the bishops under both elizabeth and james tried to suppress puritanism though other bishops were more tolerant in many places individual ministers were able to omit disliked portions of the revised book of common prayer citation needed the puritan movement of jacobean times became distinctive by adaptation and compromise with the emergence of semi separatism moderate puritanism the writings of william bradshaw who adopted the term puritan for himself and the beginnings of congregationalism 27 most puritans of this period were non separating and remained within the church of england separatists who left the church of england altogether were numerically much fewer caroline puritanism edit further information history of the puritans under charles i under charles i the puritans became a political force as well as a religious tendency in the country opponents of the royal prerogative became allies of puritan reformers who saw the church of england moving in a direction opposite to what they wanted and objected to increased catholic influence both at court and as they saw it within the church after the first english civil war political power was held by various factions of puritans the trials and executions of william laud and then king charles were decisive moves shaping british history while in the short term puritan power was consolidated by the parliamentary armed forces and oliver cromwell in the same years the argument for theocracy failed to convince enough of the various groupings and there was no puritan religious settlement to match cromwell s gradual assumption of dictatorial powers the distinctive formulation of reformed theology in the westminster assembly would prove to be its lasting legacy in new england immigration of what were puritan family groups and congregations was at its peak for the middle years of king charles s reign fragmentation and political failure edit further information history of the puritans from 1649 the westminster assembly which saw disputes on church polity in england victorian history painting by john rogers herbert the puritan movement in england was riven over decades by emigration and inconsistent interpretations of scripture as well as some political differences that surfaced at that time the fifth monarchy men a radical millenarian wing of puritanism aided by strident popular clergy like vavasor powell agitated from the right wing of the movement even as sectarian groups like the ranters levellers and quakers pulled from the left 28 29 the fragmentation created a collapse of the centre and ultimately sealed a political failure while depositing an enduring spiritual legacy that would remain and grow in english speaking christianity 30 the westminster assembly was called in 1643 assembling clergy of the church of england the assembly was able to agree to the westminster confession of faith doctrinally a consistent reformed theological position the directory of public worship was made official in 1645 and the larger framework now called the westminster standards was adopted by the church of scotland in england the standards were contested by independents up to 1660 31 the westminster divines on the other hand were divided over questions of church polity and split into factions supporting a reformed episcopacy presbyterianism congregationalism and erastianism the membership of the assembly was strongly weighted towards the presbyterians but oliver cromwell was a puritan and an independent congregationalist separatist who imposed his doctrines upon them the church of england of the interregnum 1649 60 was run along presbyterian lines but never became a national presbyterian church such as existed in scotland england was not the theocratic state which leading puritans had called for as godly rule 32 great ejection and dissenters edit further information history of the puritans from 1649 at the time of the english restoration in 1660 the savoy conference was called to determine a new religious settlement for england and wales under the act of uniformity 1662 the church of england was restored to its pre civil war constitution with only minor changes and the puritans found themselves sidelined a traditional estimate of historian calamy is that around 2 400 puritan clergy left the church in the great ejection of 1662 33 at this point the term dissenter came to include puritan but more accurately described those clergy or lay who dissented from the 1662 book of common prayer 34 the dissenters divided themselves from all other christians in the church of england and established their own separatist congregations in the 1660s and 1670s an estimated 1 800 of the ejected clergy continued in some fashion as ministers of religion according to richard baxter 33 the government initially attempted to suppress these schismatic organisations by using the clarendon code there followed a period in which schemes of comprehension were proposed under which presbyterians could be brought back into the church of england but nothing resulted from them the whigs opposed the court religious policies and argued that the dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established church this position ultimately prevailed when the toleration act was passed in the wake of the glorious revolution in 1689 this permitted the licensing of dissenting ministers and the building of chapels the term nonconformist generally replaced the term dissenter from the middle of the 18th century puritans in north america edit further information history of the puritans in north america interior of the old ship church a puritan meetinghouse in hingham massachusetts puritans were calvinists so their churches were unadorned and plain some puritans left for new england particularly from 1629 to 1640 charles i s personal rule supporting the founding of the massachusetts bay colony and other settlements among the northern colonies the large scale puritan migration to new england ceased by 1641 with around 21 000 persons having moved across the atlantic this english speaking population in the united states was not descended from all of the original colonists since many of them returned to england shortly after arriving on the continent but it produced more than 16 million descendants 35 36 this so called great migration is not so named because of sheer numbers which were much less than the number of english citizens who immigrated to virginia and the caribbean during this time many as indentured servants 37 the rapid growth of the new england colonies around 700 000 by 1790 was almost entirely due to the high birth rate and lower death rate per year they had formed families more rapidly than did the southern colonies 38 death s head granary burying ground a typical example of early funerary art in puritan new england puritan hegemony lasted for at least a century that century can be broken down into three parts the generation of john cotton and richard mather 1630 1662 from the founding to the restoration years of virtual independence and nearly autonomous development the generation of increase mather 1662 1689 from the restoration and the halfway covenant to the glorious revolution years of struggle with the british crown and the generation of cotton mather 1689 1728 from the overthrow of edmund andros in which cotton mather played a part and the new charter mediated by increase mather to the death of cotton mather 39 puritan leaders were political thinkers and writers who considered the church government to be god s agency in social life 40 the puritans in the colonies wanted their children to be able to read and interpret the bible themselves rather than have to rely upon the clergy for interpretation 41 42 43 44 in 1635 they established the boston latin school to educate their sons the first and oldest formal education institution in the english speaking new world they also set up what were called dame schools for their daughters and in other cases they taught their daughters at home how to read as a result puritans were among the most literate societies in the world by the time of the american 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