“[The church] should be purified of their unregenerate members…heretical clergymen…bishops and archbishops, but they were nevertheless churches and must be embraced as churches” (Morgan 31). These non-separating Puritans made it their goal to create a superlative Christian community in the New World. In doing so they hoped to serve as an example to encourage reform within the Church of England. Morgan, author of The Puritan Dilemma, describes the non-separating Puritans overall view of the Church of England to be more positive than negative. “[The church] had bought the means of salvation to many of their members and might still do so” (Morgan 31).
Puritan immigrants arrived in New England, during the 1600s, settling and establishing in areas like Massachusetts Bay. In contrast to the Chesapeake region’s settlers, the Puritan settlers did not only come for economic interests, but rather out of aspiration to create a more pure, Christian society based on moral living and emphasis on the family and community. The Puritans had a strong impact on the development of the New England region, based on their religious emphasis and support for a theocratic political structure. By organizing their society based on their want to create a theocracy, the Puritans ensured that their values and ideas had a great impact on the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630s through the 1660s. In the political development of New England, the Puritans influenced the region by basing the political structure on a theocratic model that enforced firm moral obedience.
New England was Puritan Separatists’. Puritans are a serious and a pious people. They strove to lead useful, conscientious lives of thrift and hard work and they honored material success as evidence of God’s favor. Only church members could vote. The Government was run by the church, due to this, people left the area because they couldn’t choose how they wished to worship.
The New England area was more religious than the Chesapeake causing differences to develop in the two societies. John Winthrop, a Massachusetts settler, wrote in his A Model of Christian Charity, that God has made distinctions in man, for example, one man being poor and another rich, but they should all rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, and so on. (Doc A) This created very close knit religious communities in New England focused on togetherness. Being unified under God created bigger unities and they were able to all live peaceful in larger towns rather than spread out on their own in the Chesapeake. The Articles of Agreement of Springfield Massachusetts (1636) focused mainly on God and that all men and families that have come deserve equal opportunity.
4.1 1. What Goals did Winthrop set for the migrants to New England? How did Puritan Faith shape those goals? What was the significance of the “covenant” between God and Puritans? The first goal was even though everyone lives separately they should all come together with love towards their religion, Secondly, the religion that everyone follows is more important than their individual lives, If the group is not good then everyone as individuals are not good.
In “Model of Christian Charity”, John Winthrop describes how the people on the ship are Christians and as such must love one another. He says that with God’s special guidance over them, they will form a civil and religious society in a way that individual conduct benefit the good of the colony. He says that they need to apply these principles to the society they are forming. They must surpass their lives in England and take it to the New World. Winthrop states that since they are the chosen people, God will not be forgiving big errors.
The "Puritan work ethic” sometimes called the "Protestant work ethic” is a phrase that describes the early American philosophy that industry in response to hardship helps one earn God's favor and the salvation of one's soul. The Puritan work ethic made it a religious obligation to work hard in a harsh environment. It rolled piety, courage, and industry into a single way of life. It also motivated the settlers to build a model society based on the values they held most dear. The Puritans believed that a person need not be a member of the clergy to preach the word of God.
As they believed that people are supposed to work as hard as they can with whatever they do, because they view it as a form of worship to God. Which is why she was not caving in even when her body was wearing out on her multiple times. In conclusion, Mary Rowlandson was a puritan writer because of the way she wrote her experience, religious beliefs, and the type of style she used to express herself. Everything she wrote about was somehow connected to God and her beliefs. It is clear that she wanted modern readers to know that the religion was as strong even before her
Hierarchy and Socialism Puritan and Transcendentalism are both systems of belief, which come from a spiritual background. While Puritanism focuses on doctrinaire devotion to the orthodox religion of the times, Transcendentalism is a more relaxed philosophy that focuses on elevating their ideal spiritual state. The Puritans shaped religion, social life, and government in New World to their ideals. The Puritans organized their government according to the teachings that they found in the Bible and on the basis of their English experience. Transcendentalism is a very formal word that describes a very simple idea.
A Puritan Justification for Community The provided “Justifications for Undertaking a New Settlement” clearly represents Puritan ideals, both religious and political, in respects to their beliefs of creating an exemplary community for God, where sins are punishable by God. The justification begins with a subtle jeremiad “Our many sins, for which the Lord shows his displeasure with us,” very simply stating that when Puritans sin, the Lord strikes down against them. According to James A. Monroe, in his selection “U.S. : A City upon a Hill,” expressing jeremiads in Puritan culture was one method of maintaining Puritan utopia. The establishment of jeremiads and their implementation appeared to maintain the block between rich and poor, called