• William Cooper (fl. 1653) was an English clergyman of Puritan views, chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia, participant in the Savoy Conference, and ejected...
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  • William Cooper may refer to: William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman...
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    early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church...
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    including Luther, Puritan, The Church, and the unpublished mini-series Missionary. The series will explore the lives of William Tyndale, James Hudson...
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    Half-Way Covenant (category New England Puritanism)
    the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan-controlled Congregational churches required evidence of a personal conversion...
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    dominated by conservative Puritan leaders. While Puritans and the Church of England both shared a common influence in Calvinism, Puritans had opposed many of...
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    Cambridge Companion to Puritanism. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67800-1. Cooper, James F. Jr. (1999). Tenacious...
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    Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before...
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  • William Whitaker (1629–1672) was an English Puritan ejected minister. The son of Jeremiah Whitaker, he was born at Oakham, Rutland. Aged 14 he was admitted...
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    The population was strongly Puritan and was governed largely by a small group of leaders strongly influenced by Puritan teachings. It was the first slave-holding...
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    Marprelate Controversy (category Elizabethan Puritanism)
    war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the...
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    Cotton Mather (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them...
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    regarded by Puritan clerics and laymen as a formidable and dangerous opponent. His use of the Star Chamber to persecute opponents such as William Prynne made...
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  • William Dowsing (1596–1668), also known as "Smasher Dowsing", was an English puritan, and a particularly notable iconoclast at the time of the English...
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    Colony in Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of a separatist Puritan congregation in Leiden, The Netherlands (also known as Brownists), who...
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    congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England. Congregational churches in other parts...
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    November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620. Differing from their contemporary Puritans (who sought to reform and purify the Church of England), the Pilgrims chose...
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    Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) (category New England Puritanism)
    They held many of the same Calvinist religious beliefs as Puritans, but unlike Puritans (who wanted a purified established church), Pilgrims maintained...
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    Dunning 1894, p. 149. Cooper 1999, p. 79–84. Walker 1894, pp. 207–208. Bremer 2008, p. 139. Bremer, Francis J. (2008), "The Puritan experiment in New England...
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    2011 Iain H. Murray, The Puritan Hope. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1975. ISBN 0-85151-037-X. "The Theology of William Carey," Evangelical Review...
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    Tale of the Neutral Ground is a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. His second novel, it was published in 1821 by Wiley & Halsted. The plot...
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    had been ousted from Barbados.[citation needed] New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. Acceptance...
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    and open to the public. His great-great-great-grandfather, William Hathorne, was a Puritan and the first of the family to emigrate from England. He settled...
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    Massachusetts. Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning...
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    Anthony Ashley insisted that a man with Puritan leanings, Aaron Guerdon, be chosen as Cooper's first tutor. Cooper's mother died in 1628. In the following...
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    a Washington journalist as "the happy Puritan". William McChesney Martin Jr. was born in St. Louis to William McChesney Martin Sr. and Rebecca Woods...
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    father-in-law and fellow regicide General Edward Whalley. Sheltered by Puritan sympathisers in New England, little is known for certain of his life there...
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    Cromwell, the manufacture of wallpaper, seen as a frivolous item by the Puritan government, was halted. Following the Restoration of Charles II, wealthy...
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    al.; Cooper, p. 269; Wilson, p. 241 Cooper, pp. 103–104 Cooper, pp. 106–107 Adams et al.; Cooper, p. 107; Wilson, p. 136 Hutchinson, p. 347 Cooper, pp...
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    faith: William Jennings Bryan, the last decade, 1915–1925 (Oxford UP, 1965) ch 6–9. Paolo E. Coletta, William Jennings Bryan". Vol. 3: Political Puritan, 1915–1925...
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