To be a puritan
A Puritan lived a life with primary focus on serving God. They left religious persecution in England. They thought the New World would be a utopia, when the English Reformation had not gone far enough in reforming the doctrines and structure of the church; they wanted to purify their national church by eliminating every shred of Catholic influence. Their lifestyles were based on relative equality, with their primary settlement in the northern colonies. There basic beliefs revolved around grace, plainness, unity, and divine mission. I will be discussing those beliefs with information that I have gathered and also from A Model Of Christian Charity, by John Winthrop. "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us" (A Model of Christian Charity, p.35), one of the most famous quotes to stand
Puritans continued to live a life that was constantly striving to be pure. With these four points I have just discussed; grace, plainess, unity, and divine mission, Puritans lived a life very structured and orderly. out by him during this puritan era was the basis for which they all believed. "For this end we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities, we must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality, we must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body So shall we k
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