1. Puritans In Early America
When King Henry VII dissolved the Catholic Church and made the Church of England rendering the Pope powerless in all English affairs (Williams, 4), some people, non-conformists, were not happy. ... The man who settled Massachusetts Bay belonged to a group of Puritans who believed like the Separatists in the way they organized the people in their church, but differed in that they believed the churches of England, while corrupt, to still be true churches. ... The majority of Puritans believed like this, that the churches of England were true churches, just required reform (Morgan, 65). ... In t...
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