Act of Uniformity 1662

The problem was that I was not on Cromwell’s good side, so to speak. My friends and I did not care for the way that Cromwell and Parliament decided to execute our king. In response, we tried to find the late king’s son, Charles II, in order to persuade him to come out of exile from Holland and take back his throne. The expedition was led by my friend Christopher Love in 1651. This was seen as an act of treason by Cromwell and his “purged” Parliament, so my friends and I were imprisoned. Sadly, Christopher Love was put to death. I, after several months in prison was released after asking for mercy and I was miraculously reinstated as vicar at St. Stephen’s again in 1652. Eventually, Charles II did ascend the throne of England, but my troubles were far from over. My biggest obstacle in my ministry came in the form of the Act of Uniformity that was renewed in 1660. I did not feel the effects of the new law until August 24, 1662 when I, along with about two thousand other Puritan ministers, was removed from my pastoral occupation for not agreeing to the Act of Uniformity. We came to know this event as the Great Ejection. This should have stopped me from preaching, but it did not. I continued to deliver the blessed Word of God in secret, preaching in barns, private homes, and even clearings in the nearby woods. This continued until 1672 when the Declaration of Indulgences was enacted and I was allowed to obtain a license to preach in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate. I…

system and the nobility process. Therefore, the plight of the poor and the serfs remained bad and the nonconformist sentiments commenced because people saw the actions of the Church to be problematic. Therefore, when the Church of England came up with the various edicts like the Act of Uniformity in 1559, the Puritans and other people who did not accept this to be legitimate sowed the seed of the non-conformist movement. This is because they considered the break-away from the Catholic Church to…

English settlers lived to set an example to society, live pure lives, and please God. (Doc A) John Winthrop passionately reinforces this idea to fellow Puritans in A Model of Christian Charity. Their religious values tied together with economy. Moderate profit to serve God and others were more accepted than the enrichment of one person. (Doc E) The 1636 Articles of Agreement that were enforced in Springfield, demonstrate the New England settlers’ motives to spread their beliefs. (Doc D) Thus the…

The Act for the relief of the Poor, 1601 or the Elizabethan Poor law was an Act of Parliament of England. It is prevalently also known as the ‘Old Poor Law’ and was approved in 1601 that formed a national poor law system for countries of Great Britain; England and Wales. During the 16th century, England was going through a bad phase of stern economic depression with large unemployment, rapid price inflation and food crisis. These deteriorating conditions led to the increase of miserable poor and…

Quantity is the interpretation of an object from the standpoint of size and, therefore, of extension and divisibility. Knowledge results from the occurrence of immaterial entities corresponding to al objects. Connected with the subjective contents are the processes of judgement and inference. All knowledge depends upon the unifying capacity of the soul. Digby believed this activity to be so unique that there is nothing in the intellect which is in the senses. Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683) …