Puritans Compare And Contrast Essay

During the 1607 to 1776, the Pilgrims and the Puritans tried to create a model society their goal was simply not end up like their “mother” country. They wanted to be different; to be better. They didn’t want to be in the “bad” anymore they wanted to move to the “better”. So they set up aspirations to go by and in this essay I will tell you what they were and how they achieved them.
Their first aspiration, of more holiness of character, you might say that because they believe in God that it was second nature to try to be like God as much as they possibly can, well you are only half correct. As Puritans and the Pilgrims came over, from England to America, they had just had their “run-in” with Queen Mary 1. They thought that if they put more emphasis on character, then the country, that their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on, will develop into something better than their home county, England. So they tried their hardest to set up more holiness of character. They started within their own families, teaching the Holy Bible to their children at a young age so they …show more content…
It was instead a far-reaching reform movement with diverse and even conflicting tenden¬cies. The Separatists who established Plymouth Plantation did not see eye-to-eye with their cousins at Massachusetts Bay, who some¬times took as short a way with dissenters as the hated Archbishop Laud. Another dissenter, Roger Williams, moved on to found Rhode Island, a colony which eventually produced, according to Vernon L. Parrington, “a theory of the commonwealth that must be reckoned the richest contribution of Puritanism to American political thought.” Providing for a separation of church and state, it placed an even higher premium on the integrity of conscience than did the other Puritan