Puritans

for women only, usually used in the case of gossip. The woman shall be confined in a chair and dunked in water.

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A puritan is a religious person who lives there life by a strict set of rules - often determined by religion. They are often more religious than others of the same faith and follow their religious book to the word. This does not mean most preachers are Puritans though some are.

Themselves mainly, they grew everything they needed and farmed their own stock.

the puritan society was organized in the late 16th century

Predestination-Apex :)

John Winthrop used the term "Covenant" to describe the Puritans' relationship with God, emphasizing a binding agreement between them based on mutual obligations and responsibilities.

drown them, burn them. Anything to get rid of them if they were proven to be witches.

a single person

intolerant of the religious views held by others

They thought the teachings were wrong and was to much like the roman church.

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Because some Puritans thought that they shouldn't do what people ordered them to do and that they should do what they want.

They went over to them demanded their thing and therfore they had to do what the had to do.

Town Meetings and Church Services

Yes. They believed this quite strongly and that individuals were predestined to go to Heaven or Hell, i.e. that their choices could not influence God's decision.

to be free and practice their own religion

Did an A level history module on these guys...

Basically there are two main strands of historical interpretation on these guys: the traditional view, and then the more revisionist view.

The Puritans arose as a movement after the Elizabethan Church Settlement of 1559, which established England as a Protestant nation after Queen Mary's Catholic restoration. However, it was very different to the Protestant Church of her younger brother Edward V. She followed more the lead of Luther, whilst her brother followed that of Calvin. Elizabeth, to appease her nation who was mostly catholic (the revisionists argue), established a Church with Protestant theology, but maintaining many of the Catholic rituals and traditions. In brief, it "looked Catholic, but sounded Protestant".

The Puritans were a (minority) group, that rebelled against this, seeking to be stricter like the times under Edward. Whilst the traditional argument was that this was a huge group of people, revisionist argue that they were but a small sect. Many of them illegally abstained from Anglican Church services, and instead formed isolated communities. They believed that they were the elect, chosen by God to enter heaven, and that all others not in their communities were the 'reprobate' (that is, those damned to hell), and as such, they wanted little to do with them.

Anything that wasn't strictly biblical they banned. Bright clothing was outlawed as worldish. Maypoles were cut down, as there routes were in pagan tradition. They had names for themselves like 'the Godly'.

Defining exactly what a Puritan was, is difficult (I remember having to write essays on it!), simply because there were many different types, from those who simply didn't like wearing Catholic vestments, to those who wanted to overhaul Elizabeth as head of the Church. At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, the Puritan threat came from those protesting the vestments, and as that died away, it was replaced by the Puritan shadow Church, which rivalled the Anglican Church.

Indeed, the very term 'Puritan', was never actually used by Puritans to describe themselves. It was in fact an insult used for them by the rest of the Christian folk.

But in the words of a modern historian, a Puritan was a 'hotter Protestant'

Boringly. God came first in their lives. Makeup, celebrating Christmas, football and lots of other fun things were banned. This is because their leader thought it distracted them from their devotion to Christ.

God had chosen certain people to go to heaven.

Apex =)

the puritans survived on mostly food and they grew cattle and just survived like we do today... just alittle different

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For the Puritans, conversion meant the experience of a profound spiritual transformation in which an individual's heart and mind were turned towards God. It involved a deep sense of conviction of sin, repentance, and a personal encounter with God's grace leading to a new life of faith and obedience. Conversion was seen as essential for salvation and membership in the church.