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    more Protestant. Puritanism played a significant role in English and early American history, especially during the Protectorate. Puritans were dissatisfied...
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  • up Puritan or puritan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritan or...
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    The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, also known as The Puritan Widow, is an anonymous Jacobean stage comedy, first published in 1607. It is often...
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    history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in...
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    Puritan Sabbatarianism or Reformed Sabbatarianism, often just Sabbatarianism, is observance of Sabbath in Christianity that is typically characterised...
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    conforming Puritans into the Church of England of the time. Collinson has discussed a moderate Puritanism, as contrasted to an extreme Puritanism that demanded...
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    unorthodox religious opinions. Puritans were also active in New Hampshire before it became a crown colony in 1691. Puritanism ended early in the 18th century...
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  • Puritanism, begun in England in the 17th century, was a radical Protestant movement to reform the Church of England. Puritan poets such as John Milton...
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  • late-born Puritan." In the Prologue, Santayana explains that, "in Oliver puritanism worked itself out to its logical end. He convinced himself, on puritan grounds...
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    Puritan's Pit (also known as Preacher's Pit, The Devil's Pit or Gruti's Pit) is a large steep-sided pit in the south side of the valley of the River Lemon...
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    congressman Samuel S. Cox considered that "[a]bolition is the offspring of Puritanism [which] introduced the moral elements involved in slavery into politics...
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  • became a sine qua non of the Puritan approach to exorcism. When Richard Bancroft as Bishop of London undertook to limit Puritanism, he had the cessationist...
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    War was a "Puritan Revolution" that challenged the repressive Stuart Church and prepared the way for religious toleration. Thus, Puritanism was seen as...
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    The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...
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  • its scope could be wider than that. Francis J. Bremer (2006). Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America. 1 (2006). ABC-CLIO. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-57607-678-1...
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  • USS Puritan may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Puritan (1864) was a single-turret monitor that was never commissioned. She...
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  • Puritan Bennett has been a provider of respiratory products since 1913 originally as a medical gas supplier. In addition to critical care ventilation...
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  • The Puritan is the sixth full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Despotz on 24 April 2015...
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  • with some critics confused as to the intentions of the project. New Puritanism has not been espoused by any well-known writers since the book's publication...
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  • Hail the New Puritan is a fictionalized documentary about the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. It was directed by Charles Atlas. Production...
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  • These New Puritans are an English music group/band from Southend-on-Sea, England. It consists mainly of Jack Barnett (principal songwriter, vocalist, producer...
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    The Puritan is a 126-foot (38 m) gaff-rigged schooner designed by naval architect John Alden and built in 1930. Originally owned by Edward W. Brown in...
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    Puritan Records was an American record label which lasted from 1917 to 1929. For most of its existence Puritan was a product of the Wisconsin Chair Company...
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    Puritan Farm, also known as Keitt-Whaley-Pearlstine House, is a historic plantation house located near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina. It...
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    Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He was ejected from his London parish after the Restoration, but continued to...
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    Zinzendorf, the Moravian Church, Lutheran pietism, Presbyterianism and Puritanism. Among leaders and major figures of the Evangelical Protestant movement...
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    (2008), "The Growth of English Puritanism", in Coffey, John; Lim, Paul C. H. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, Cambridge Companions to Religion...
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    The Puritan choir was a theory advanced by historian Sir John Neale of an influential movement of radical English Protestants in the Elizabethan Parliament...
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    The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects from 1620 to 1640, declining sharply afterwards. The term Great Migration can refer to...
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    (1986). Essays on puritans and puritanism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Jable, J.T. (1976). "The English puritans – suppressors of sport...
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