Puritan Perfection
Why did Puritanism decline in the seventeenth century, after the migration to America? According to Alden T. Vaughan, who wrote The Puritan Tradition in America 1620-1730, “There is little doubt that after about 1660 a gap began to grow between the well-ordered, godly, communitarian Bible commonwealth envisioned by John Winthrop, Richard Mather, and John Cotton and the more materialistic, cosmopolitan, heterodox New England of the post-Restoration (Vaughan, 297).” The puritans were non-materialist people who followed the Bible, and wanted to set an example for the rest of Europe that only there religious ways would receive God’s grace. They were not like the separatists who wanted to worship and live among themselves, but they wanted to strive to change others. They stressed the need to purify the world (Reuben 2). The puritans at this time believe very strongly about God. Everything they do they wanted to do for God, and to be God’s followers. The puritans believe tha!t to achieve God’s grace, which is the overall goal of the puritans, is to abide by a very strict policy. The puritan’s strict way of life creates an opening for mistakes and failures. America is being influenced by modern Europe, and Puritanism collaps
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Approximate Word count = 1709
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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