Context

Question 1

Gender roles

Answer 1

Woman legally owned by their husbands upon marriage, seen as inferior and in some instances evil

Question 2

View on religious institutions

Answer 2

-Opposed them, believed that each individual should be his own church without any establishment to encumber him
-Called for the removal of bishops and priests
-Believed that the individual and his conscience was a more powerful way of interpreting the Word of God than the example set by a church

Question 3

Political support

Answer 3

Supported the rise of Cromwell and the
Parliamentarians

Question 4

Satans snakes

Answer 4

The Age of Exploration revealed that much of the accepted knowledge of the 16th and 17th centuries was based on error and superstition, mirrored in the fictional origins of serpent names (hydrus) of Satan’s followers in their error of rejecting god.

Question 5

Presbyterian minister Matthew Henry

Answer 5

“but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”