They embraced “extreme separatism,” removing themselves from England and its corrupt church. These Puritans ... 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the English Parliament introduced a series of measures intended to reform the theology and rituals of the Church ... Arriving in New England, the Puritans ...

The Puritans were the Protestant ... A record even exists in 1600s New England of a man named James Matlock, whose wife brought him to the church for refusing “conjugal fellowship,” a sin ...

Puritans were religious fanatics — the Christian nationalists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Most know they came by the boatload from England in the early 1600s, searching for their religious ...