The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of England was to remain a part of the Church and reform it from the inside.
The Puritans were from England. They believed that the Church of England was too much like the Catholic Church. They settled in what became Massachusetts and revived what they believed was the proper form of Anglican Protestantism.
remain in the church and reform it from the inside
The Puritans were from England. They believed that the Church of England was too much like the Catholic Church. They settled in what became Massachusetts and revived what they believed was the proper form of Anglican Protestantism.
Puritans from the Church of England.
Puritans from within the Church of England.
The Puritans were seeking religious freedom from the Church of England.
They wanted to break away from the Church of England.
Puritans came, (a puritan is a member of a group from England and fled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to reform the practices of the Church of England, they hated that church), their leaving is known as the Great Migration.
The Puritans were English Protestants who were unhappy with the Church of England. They believed it had strayed too far from the Bible and was too close to the Catholic church in its rich decoration and its belief that a person could have a relationship with God only through a church and a priest, not directly. They believed in plain and simple houses, clothing and churches, not the rich decorations of the time. They were persecuted by the Church and by King James and so left England for America in order to worship as they believed. The first Pilgrims in America went to Virginia in 1618, but most went to New England. The Pilgrims founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620. Other Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony near present-day Boston in 1829 and the Connecticut Colony in 1636.
the puritans beat the church of england.
Calvanists
The Puritans were in no way, Lutheran. The Puritans came from England and were a small, evangelical church that were very pious and shunned anything resembling Catholicism or the Church of England. The Puritans were shunned by the established church in England and came to the American colonies to start a new church. Eventually, they became very arrogant and mistreated the Anglican church from formiing in areas of New England, where the Puritans were dominant. The Lutherans were very similar to the Roman Catholic Church and came from Germany, not England.