activities. Unlike seventh-day Sabbatarians, Puritan Sabbatarians practice first-day Sabbatarianism (Sunday Sabbatarianism), keeping Sunday as Sabbath and...

impact of first-day Sabbatarianism on Western culture is manifested by practices such as Sunday blue laws. Seventh-day Sabbatarianism is a movement that...

early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church...

Puritans were distinct for their adherence to Sabbatarianism. Puritans taught that there were two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Puritans...

also refer to: First-day Sabbatarianism, one of the following: Puritan Sabbatarianism, historically the first Sabbatarians, who followed the Reformed...

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...

was the Puritan religion, which played a major role in the English Civil Wars but was not widely practised throughout Wales.  Welsh Puritan religious...

the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan-controlled Congregational churches required evidence of a personal conversion...

Calvinism of the Congregationalists. New England Universalists rejected the Puritan forefathers' emphasis on the select few, the Elect, who were supposed to...

including the evangelical feasts of Christmas and Easter (cf. Puritan Sabbatarianism). The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting...

dominated by conservative Puritan leaders. While Puritans and the Church of England both shared a common influence in Calvinism, Puritans had opposed many of...

Kingdom, which can trace their history back to nonconforming Protestants, Puritans, Separatists, Independents, English religious groups coming out of the...

The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...

Puritan doctrine that assurance of salvation is not a necessary consequence of faith, a minimalist conception of worship, and Puritan Sabbatarianism.[citation...

and worked with a number of definitions of Puritanism, in an unresolved debate on the nature of the Puritan movement of the 16th and 17th century. There...

included the correct use of Sabbath, an initial sign of the Sabbatarianism of the English Puritans. The queen objected to the growth of the conventicling movement...

relation to Mosaic Law. In addition, the Orthodox Tewahedo Churches uphold Sabbatarianism, observing the Sabbath on Saturday, in addition to the Lord's Day on...

of Charles I and challenged the Puritans. The English Civil War and the overthrow of the monarchy allowed the Puritans to pursue their reform agenda and...

period, most famously the English Civil War which resulted in the rule of Puritan Oliver Cromwell. After the Stuart Restoration and the Glorious Revolution...

From 1649 to 1660, Puritans in the Commonwealth of England were allied to the state power held by the military regime, headed by Lord Protector Oliver...

tone it was strongly against the Church of Rome, taking the side of the Puritan party in the English church in opposition to William Laud, whom Charles...

the Puritans became a political force as well as a religious tendency in the country. Opponents of the royal prerogative became allies of Puritan reformers...

17th-century Puritans, the Presbyterian and Congregationalist, as well as Methodist and Baptist Churches, enshrined first-day (Sunday) Sabbatarian views in...

with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed...

centuries, as have other Eastern Orthodox traditions. Puritan Sabbatarianism or Reformed Sabbatarianism is strict observance of Sabbath in Christianity that...

The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a "just, almighty God...

they were interpreted—came to be defining features of conservative and puritan Protestant discourse. They were echoed elsewhere, such as the famous glosses...

from the Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604. King James I agreed to abolish them, but the reform was never enacted. Puritans responded...

I of England). A key element was the rejection of predestination. The Puritans fought against Arminianism, and King James I of England opposed it before...

Confession. The document was shaped primarily by the Puritan ministers Richard Mather and John Cotton. The Puritans who settled colonial New England were Calvinists...