Puritans · Atlas

in the texts

The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

Clergy and laity who refused full ceremonial conformity to the Church of England and found sympathy in the House of Commons.

After the abortive Hampton Court Conference in 1604 James resolved to enforce conformity, and a considerable number of the clergy were deprived of their benefices for refusing to conform.

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

Not only Puritans but ordinary Protestants were alienated by Laud’s efforts to enforce uniformity in the Church by insisting on obedience to the law as interpreted by the Ecclesiastical Courts.

ii from the meeting of the third parliament of cha ¶

Our pleasure likewise is, that the Bishop of that Diocese take the like strait order with all the Puritans and Precisians within the same, either constraining them to conform themselves or to leave the county, according to the laws of our kingdom and canons of our Church, and so to strike equally on both hands against the contemners of our authority and adversaries of our Church;

chapter 13 ¶

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

The English religious dissenters, and by extension American proponents of civil/republican liberty, whose cause is derided by opponents under mocking names.

During the reigns of the Stuarts, there existed two kinds of puritanism;

construction construed and constitutions vindicate ¶

The puritanism of republican principles is ridiculed it is called democracy;

construction construed and constitutions vindicate ¶

Those who resisted the frauds of selfishness, and the artifices of ambition, were called puritans;

construction construed and constitutions vindicate ¶

The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

New England colonists who deferred to their own reading of Mosaic law over the Common Law.

The settlers of Massachusetts refused to admit any authority but that of their own enactments, tempered by a general deference to ‘God’s word,’ meaning thereby the text of the Mosaic law:

iv enemies in the gate ¶

There were other and later jealousies which crossed the Atlantic with the Puritans and have left pretty recent traces, if I mistake not, in some American jurisdictions;

vi alliance and conquest ¶