Puritan Intolerance 1632, Illuminated Beliefs, Foundational Rigidity, Essential, Interconnected.
“A puritan is such a monstrous thing
that loves Democracy and hates the king...
A Puritan is he whose heart is bent
to cross the king's designs in Parliament.
Where whilst the place of Burgess he doth bear
He thinks he owes but small allegiance there...
So that with his wit and valour he doth trye,
How the prerogative he may deny.”~ Anonymous rhymester (c. 1630s), quoted in Charles Carlton, Archbishop William Laud (1987), p. 121
Addendum: Gregory Osborne’s excellent thesis analyzes The Puritans & Dissension in Seventeenth-Century New England. It provides very good background knowledge on how the Puritan ‘Elite’ thought about the world around them at the time.
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