The Puritan movement began in England in the 1500s and had spread to the American colonies by the early 1600s with the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. Puritans were originally members of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches who broke away for a number of reasons. They differed...
The Puritan Board provides Christian discussion in a Confessionally Reformed Evangelical context. We are Evangelical because we protest the authority, truth claims and idolatry of the Roman Catholic Church. We are Reformed because we believe that men and women are dead in trespasses and it requires ...
VI. The Tithingman and the Sleepers VII. The Length of the Service VIII. The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House IX. The Noon-House X. The Deacon’s Office XI. The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims XII. The Bay Psalm-Book XIII. Sternhold and Hopkins’ Version of the Psalms XIV. Other ...
6、s second & shorter term imprisonment that he wrote Part I of his masterpiece; the milder tone of Part II may be partly a refection of the spirit of greater tolerance of religious difference prevailing in England later in his life.(5) The great reputation of Pilgrims Progress arises from...
the pilgrims to cross the River of Death is perhaps the finest single thing Bunyan ever wrote. In spite of his ministerial responsibilities Bunyan found time to publish a large number of doctrinal and controversial works in the last 10 years of his life. He also composed rough but workmanlike...