11.17 Puritans and other Separatists

separatists

those who want to separate from the Anglican church

Recusants

to be a Catholic who refuses the Anglican church

by James’s time, only ___ are Catholic

5%

Book of Martyrs/Acts and Monuments, 1563, John Foxe

History of the Christian church. England fell out of it when joined with Rome, and the Catholic church has been corrupted. The people the Catholics persecuted in the Middles Ages were the true church.

Puritans show up by

the end of the 16th century

Puritans want to purify the church in 2 ways

remove anything Roman Catholic - kneeling, vestments, wafers, bishops, decor, saints

purify morality - make the English people into a Puritan mindset

The Anatomy of Abuses, 1583, Stubbs

All things wrong in the English church. NOT separatists. Makeup, sports, Christmas, Easter - evil

Puritans believe that Elizabeth

isn’t radical enough

Stubbs doesn’t want drinking, dancing, brothels, or smoking, and the latter shows that

tobacco is now coming from the New World in the 17th Century

A popular drinking song

Good ale for my money

The Puritan belief is that sins

compound

Sins like drinking are bad because they

destroy families

The Vindication of Christmas, 1652

defends Christmas and St. Nick

Puritans don’t like Christmas because it

encourages revelry and focuses too much on Mary

disestablishmentarianism

no state official church

congregationalist

local church government, no bishops

presbyterian

church elders

episcopal

pro-Bishop

sabbatarian

strict observance of the Sabbath

Elizabeth is worried about Puritan influence because Puritans aren’t going to Anglican services, which means that her

plan for uniformity could crumble

Edmund Grindal, ABC

sympathetic to the Puritans and is booted out

Act Against Puritans, 1593

must swear to offending God. Not going to an Anglican parish is anti-Elizabeth. Can’t attend unapproved services and must outwardly conform

Puritans can’t attend unapproved church services because these services could be

encouraging rebellion

The Puritans think King James might be sympathetic because he’s

presbyterian

millenary petition, 1603

requests to James by the Puritans

Hampton Court Conference, 1604

the Puritans meet with James, who refuses to change anything

The King James Bible, 1611

results from the Hampton Court Conference, affirming divine right, as the Puritans were using the Geneva Bible

Declaration of Sports, 1618

James, then Charles I in 1633. James is touring small towns and is told the Puritans won’t let them do anything on Sunday, so he defends their right to play sports.

James I’s reasons for sports being allowed on Sunday

Prepares men for war

People will feel pushed away from the church

John Smyth

founded a non-Puritan movement - the Baptists. infant baptism is wrong.