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Instead of trying to cover the totality of Puritan experience, the author focuses on a few crucial topics. What motivated the Puritans? What were they trying to accomplish? He illuminates the differences between the different branches of Puritanism: Separatists (the Pilgrims), who believed that each and every church should stand alone; Congregationalists (the majority of those who settled the rest of Massachusetts and formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony), who believed in a loose affiliation of churches, and Presbyterians, who wanted a rigid church hierarchy. He also illustrates how the beliefs and practices of each group evolved over time. If you want to really understand some of our most famous ancestors, this relatively slender volume is a must read.
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Morgan's study focuses on important concepts within the history of Christianity in Colonial New England. What were the requirements for belonging to the church? And related to this, who could be baptized and receive the Lord's Supper? Morgan supplies the answers to these questions in a readable style. Further, for the most part, he reflects on these questions in terms of what the Puritans themselves believed. In short, this is a book that anyone interested in the history of Christianity in Colonial America, especially Calvinist-oriented Christianity, will want to read.
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CHRISTIANITY teaches that God is good and man is bad, that God is in fact so good and man so bad that man deserves eternal damnation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New England, Lord's Supper, John Cotton, New Haven, Henry Ainsworth, George Johnson, Increase Mather, Francis Johnson, Thomas Shepard, Cotton Mather, Henry Barrow, Massachusetts Bay, Richard Mather, Early English Dissenters, English Puritans, Henry Jacob, New York, Robert Browne, Daniel Studley, John Smyth, John Winthrop, Jonathan Mitchel, New World, Rhode Island, William Ames New!
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CHRISTIANITY teaches that God is good and man is bad, that God is in fact so good and man so bad that man deserves eternal damnation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
halfway covenant, visible saints, saving faith, church covenant, visible church Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Lord's Supper, John Cotton, New Haven, Henry Ainsworth, George Johnson, Increase Mather, Francis Johnson, Thomas Shepard, Cotton Mather, Henry Barrow, Massachusetts Bay, Richard Mather, Early English Dissenters, English Puritans, Henry Jacob, New York, Robert Browne, Daniel Studley, John Smyth, John Winthrop, Jonathan Mitchel, New World, Rhode Island, William Ames New!
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- The Early English Dissenters In the Light of Recent Research (1550-1641) - Vol. 2 (Dissent and Nonconformity) by Champlin Burrage on 8 pages
- Church Government and Church Covenant Discussed by Richard Mather on 4 pages
- Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by The Episcopal Church on page 10, page 75, and page 76
- Puritan Manifestoes: A Study of the Origin of the Puritan Revolt with a Reprint of the Admonition to the Parliament and Kindred Documents, 1572 by Walter H. Frere on page 1, page 7, and page 10
- Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years As Seen in Its Literature (Research and Source Series No. 519) by Henry Martyn Dexter on page 16, and page 38
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- Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky on 4 pages
- Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (Religion in America) by James F. Cooper Jr. on 4 pages
- The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts by Darren Staloff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (Religion in America Life) by James F. Cooper Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities by Robert T. Handy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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