0 the belief that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that pleasure is wrong or unnecessary
What parliamentarian communities incontrovertibly had in common, though, was the fact that they had been colonized by puritanism.
Royalism was born out of a desire to squash the power of puritanism and a desire to maintain the authority of the king.
The antinomians represented a new strain of puritanism, one developed in conscious contradistinction to the rigorous asceticism of mainstream puritan piety.
Much of this revisionist case is irrefutable and supplies an important corrective to naive assumptions about puritanism and liberty.
It developed no reputation for puritanism, nor did it establish a town preacher.
There is a reflex apparent in early modern studies by which ' puritanism ' can be proven by no more forceful an argument that the absence of excessive rhetorical ornament in preaching.
This country had the opportunity of being governed in the 17th century by undiluted puritanism followed by reaction of the opposite quality.
But no one in his right mind could have expected the zealotry—indeed the new puritanism—with which those regulations are being enacted.
