The Puritans Against The Church Of Rome

Thesis:The Puritans were a widespread and diverse group of individuals who took a stand for religious purity in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. They had been strongly against the Catholic Church. As a matter of fact the Puritan colonists believed that English Reformation had not gone far enough and that the Church of England, also known as the Anglican church, was still tolerating too many practices that were associated with the Church of Rome they wanted greater reforms to do away with all the traces and the effects of the Roman Catholic Church. As a matter of fact the faith of the Puritans was not to separate entirely from the Church of England.

I. The Puritans had been strongly against the Catholic Church they wanted greater reforms