10 Metaphors for puritans

When at nightfall he was shut up in the hut with his companions, he told them that the Puritan they had seen was a friend of his own, a captain in his troop, and that he doubted not that deliverance was at hand.

The Puritan was an individualist.

Of old the Puritan in war was certainly the Puritan at his best; it was the Puritan in peace whom no Christian could be expected to stand.

A PURITAN Is a diseased piece of apocalypse: bind him to the Bible, and he corrupts the whole text.

The next Puritan of prominence who enlisted among the helpers of the African slaves was Chief Justice Sewall, of Massachusetts.

Church and State in Massachusetts.%Down to the moment of their arrival in America the Puritans had not been Separatists.

But it is seldom remembered that the Puritans were in their day emphatically intellectual bullies, that they relied swaggeringly on the logical necessity of Calvinism, that they bound omnipotence itself in the chains of syllogism.

Though the spirit of the movement was profoundly religious, the Puritans were not a religious sect; neither was the Puritan a narrow-minded and gloomy dogmatist, as he is still pictured even in the histories.

The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests.

e Puritans in 1644, for refusing to subscribe the Solemn League and Covenant; became a Roman Catholic, and died in 1650 as a canon of the Virgin's Chapel at Loretto.

10 Metaphors for  puritans