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puritans
Title: puritans
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 346 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
puritans
Puritans
The puritans thought of the bible as the true law of God that gave guidelines for church government. They emphasized Bible reading, prayer, and preaching in worship services. They wanted more personal prayers and less recited prayers. The puritans stressed grace, devotion, prayer, and self-examination to reach religious virtue. This deep sense of devotion to God would be what helped them through many hardships in New England. These hardships include, the opposition to the …showed first 75 words of 346 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 346 total…work, moral attitudes, and values characterize modern movements for a rapid social change that requires hard work and discipline. They also founded Plymouth colony in what is now Massachusetts. The Puritans’ belief in government by c!
ontract from the governed influenced the development if the American democratic principles. The Puritans devout religion is what got them though many hard times in England and is what had made the American society what it is today.
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