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PILGRIMS

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims & Puritans o Puritan vs. Pilgrim – n Puritan = change from within

Pilgrims & Puritans o Puritan vs. Pilgrim – n Puritan = change from within the Church of England n Pilgrim = separatists, break from Church of England o thought COE = completely corrupt o SCROOBY, Nottinghamshire: secret congregation (Scrooby Separatists) o more people = Puritan than Separatist

Pilgrims & Puritans o Puritan = Pilgrim – Dissenters: nonconformists w/COE doctrine sought to

Pilgrims & Puritans o Puritan = Pilgrim – Dissenters: nonconformists w/COE doctrine sought to purify Christian belief & practice Scriptures = #1 authority No middle men agreed w/ Martin Luther’s belief that no pope or bishop had a right to impose any law on a Christian w/o consent n accepted John Calvin’s point in predetermination – election by God of saved & damned n n n

Pilgrims & Puritans o Pilgrims’ Route to New World – o persecution, imprisonment in

Pilgrims & Puritans o Pilgrims’ Route to New World – o persecution, imprisonment in England o 1608: to Holland, Netherlands n foreigners, poverty, language, no agriculture but weaving, loss of religious identity) o petition to settle in America, to England’s Virginia Company o English investors o commercial as well as religious venture n 3 x as many secular settlers as Separatists on Mayflower (27 of 100 = Pilgrim)

Pilgrims & Puritans o 1620: n Pilgrims land in Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Plantation (66

Pilgrims & Puritans o 1620: n Pilgrims land in Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Plantation (66 days) n William Bradford n Mayflower n November 1620 n 1 st winter: Wampanoag Indians, leader = Massasoit

Mayflower o 1620:

Mayflower o 1620:

Pilgrims & Puritans o 1630: n n Puritans land in Massachusetts Bay John Winthrop

Pilgrims & Puritans o 1630: n n Puritans land in Massachusetts Bay John Winthrop well-financed trip Arbella o 1691: n Pilgrim = Puritan o synonymous o see similarities above n by the time of the New Charter

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n Dissenting o from COE doctrine, practice n Covenant

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n Dissenting o from COE doctrine, practice n Covenant model n Calvinist doctrine of ELECTION o God had chosen/elected who will be saved, damned long before we’re born o not that we’re all born damned o but that since Adam broke “Covenant of Works” (live forever in GOE as long as…) o saved by “Covenant of Grace”

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n “Covenant of Grace” o Christ’s redeeming bargain, sealed

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n “Covenant of Grace” o Christ’s redeeming bargain, sealed with His blood) n Immortality = Believe in Christ o root of the JOY o celebration of Incarnation o strict requirements of Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) – more important than Baptism

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n sermons = o not to the hopeless unregenerate

Pilgrims & Puritans o RELIGION: n sermons = o not to the hopeless unregenerate o but to the indifferent n emotional appeals o rational understanding vs. emotional saving faith o heart vs. mind n rigorous, strict – to be an example to others, to set themselves apart o “city on the hill”

Pilgrims & Puritans o HISTORY = in high regard n 1. Gain lasting truths

Pilgrims & Puritans o HISTORY = in high regard n 1. Gain lasting truths through study of lives of noble men o (Renaissance thought) o Early Church historians o Classical historians n Plutarch, Livy, Tacitus o (see Bradford’s references & allusions)

Pilgrims & Puritans o HISTORY = in high regard n 2. History = God’s

Pilgrims & Puritans o HISTORY = in high regard n 2. History = God’s Plan o Time = procession toward the fulfillment of God’s design on earth o Christocentric World o even pre-history = prep for Christ o Typology

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n studying types n comparing old with new n

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n studying types n comparing old with new n Old Testament figures as foreshadowings of Christ o b/c of this view of history

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n Pilgrims & Puritans = Jews o Chosen People

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n Pilgrims & Puritans = Jews o Chosen People o City of God o J. Winthrop as “Puritan Moses” fulfilling “the noble design of carrying a colony of chosen people into an American wilderness”

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n Pilgrims & Puritans = Jews n Biographies of

Pilgrims & Puritans o TYPOLOGY: n Pilgrims & Puritans = Jews n Biographies of Pilgrims & Puritans o Wm. Bradford, J. Winthrop o Cotton Mather = Puritan historian n “saints lives” = “example of the progress of an individual Christian soul & an allegory of the potential American hero” n ideals more than histories

Pilgrims & Puritans o Providential View of History: o God = active in human

Pilgrims & Puritans o Providential View of History: o God = active in human events n Rewards good n Punishes evil o success = His approval n Protects His chosen people o (no “watchmaker”)

Pilgrims & Puritans o Providential View of History: o symbolism n Everything, major or

Pilgrims & Puritans o Providential View of History: o symbolism n Everything, major or trivial, could emblemize something o Parable, Allegory** o constant self-consciousness, selfscrutiny, self-evaluation o significance of all things o History = Literature, w/morals

Pilgrims & Puritans o THEMES: n n n n Covenants Community Reason, logic Patience

Pilgrims & Puritans o THEMES: n n n n Covenants Community Reason, logic Patience & Perseverance Total faith in God, Plan All things for good (Rom. 8. 28, T. Watson) Christian charity

Pilgrims & Puritans o GENRES: n n Histories Poetry Journals, diaries Letters

Pilgrims & Puritans o GENRES: n n Histories Poetry Journals, diaries Letters