Titlebook: English Puritanism; John Spurr Textbook 1997Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997 civil war.England.history.puritanism

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Puritans and the Wordf I had assurance that God were my God, and Christ were my Christ, and the promises were mine, I would’. Sedgwick explained that assurance was the fruit of faith, but that God’s word was its basis: ‘experiences are good encouragements to the future acts of faith, but the word of God is still the gro

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The Puritan Lifelayed the fruits of a saving faith, and that this life was open to the scrutiny and admiration of other godly individuals, that it was a constant reproach to the profane, and a living tribute to God. But such a life was not possible independently of the brethren. Chapter 3 set out what it was to be

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The Origins of Puritans 1558–1603 were out of the same mould. But the puritans were usually one step ahead of the official campaign, exhorting, cajoling and criticizing — at one moment urging the church on and despairing of it in the next.

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Puritans from Uniformity to Toleration, 1662–89s did not sit easily within the category of dissent or within the religious situation of Charles II’s reign. Puritans did not relish being lumped together with Quakers and Baptists: ‘it is a palpable injury to burden us with the various parties with whom we are now herded by our ejection in the gene

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Conclusionl doctrine of predestination; they diverged in their views and became more diverse in their priorities as the seventeenth century progressed — old characteristics such as providentialism or millenarianism began to fade and new preoccupations with denominational purity or finances began to assert the

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