The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Puritanism, rise and development of, 98;
an outgrowth of the time, 103;
an effort to escape from formalism, 109;
gathered strength as the leading opposition, 111;
becomes dogmatic, 112;
evolutionary, 117;
importance of secondary development of, 120;
apparent decline of, 121;
begun with Elizabeth, seemed doomed to die with her, 122;
evolves new issues, 123, 137, n. 7;
opposed to Arminianism, 133;
set up the Commonwealth, 133;
threatened destruction of, at Leyden, 167;
under James I the party of opposition, 191;
conservative under Charles I, 192;
unamiable traits of, manifested in Endecott, 202;
course of events in England adverse to, 203;
suppression of, by Laud, 239;
divergencies from, in Massachusetts, 267;
existed and grew through prudent compromises, 268, 269;
Salem, north pole of, 271;
condemned by its false and harsh ideals, 300;
character of, 300, 301, 342;
an ascetic system of external duties and abstentions, 327.
Puritans, why so called, 106, 135, n. 4.
Puritans, English, contempt of the, for æsthetic considerations, 94;
reverence for Bible precepts, 109;
would have no surplices, no liturgy, 109;
banished the symbol with the dogma, 111;
importance of efforts toward the regulation of conduct, 120;
dubbed Martinists, 121;
differences forgotten in the conflict with the Episcopal
party, 137, n. 6;
omitted the liturgy, 142;
present Millinary Petition to James I, 159;
at the Hampton Court conference, 160, 181, n. 1;
not eager to join Separatist settlers, 188;
a powerful party, 192;
motives for emigration, 197;
fear of divine judgments, 198;
barred from all public action, 203;
plan for a Puritan church in America, 204;
carried out through the Massachusetts Company, 212;
differences among the, 213;
exhilarating effect of freedom from constraints, 213;
raging against indulgence to Romanists, 235, 238;
believed the church under Laud would become Roman Catholic, 239;
dropped "saint" from geographical names, 244;
rise of, to power, 240;
dominant in Parliament, 252;
could not be induced to leave New England for Maryland, 252;
persecuted in Virginia, leave there for Maryland, 253;
at peace with Catholics in Maryland, 254;
their ideas rampant in Maryland, 257;
send munitions of war to New England, 284;
conceived of religion as difficult of attainment, 328.
Puritans of the Massachusetts colony not Separatists, 212;
pathetic farewell to the Church of England, 213;
persuaded to the Plymouth view of church government, 215;
leaving England, 239;
emigration to New England, 240.
Quakers put to death by Endecott, 202;
protected in Maryland, 257.
Raccoon, the, called a monkey, 19, 24, n. 10.
Radical and conservative, difference between, constitutional, 109.
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