The Puritan Threat Flashcards

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What is a Puritan

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A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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What did the puritans believe in

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Predestination

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What does predestination mean

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Means that you are predestined at birth to either go to heaven or hell

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What did puritans do on Sundays

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Did religious studies (no theatre, gambling, games)

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What were Presbyterians

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Extremely puritans who fought for their cause

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When was the vestments controversy

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Puritan threat

1570

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What was the vestments controversy

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Archbishop of Canterbury wrote the ‘book of advertisements’

Many puritans were against this and 37 were sacked in London

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‘When was’ Thomas Cartwright

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Puritan threat

1570

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What did Thomas Cartwright do

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Cartwright threatened to abolish archbishops because he was a Presbyterian

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What did John Stubbs do

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He wrote a book criticising the Queen in 1579

He alleges that the Queen was engaged with the Duke of Anjou

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What were the Marprelate tracts

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In 1588-89 a series of leaflets sent across the country, though this had a minimal impact because Protestants did the same with Protestant ideas

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What did Walter Strickland do

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A Puritan MP from Yorkshire who wrote a new book of common prayer. Banned as a MP as a result 1571

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What did John fields and Thomas Wilcox do

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Published 2 books saying that the bible wanted a Presbyterian church

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What did peter wentworth do

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Complained that MPs did not have a say in the parliament

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Who was archbishop grindal

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Archibishop of Canterbury in July 1575 who was asked to stop prophesying (puritan meetings) but he did nothing

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What did John Whitgift do to stop Presbyterianism

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He replaced Grindal and was not sympathetic to puritans. Issued the 3 articles forcing people to accept archbishops, the book of common prayer and the 39 articles

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When did separatist puritans set up their own church

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In 1580

18
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What wasn’t enough for predestination

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Belief in Jesus wasn’t enough
Being a good person wasn’t enough
You had to be elected for salvation, no one knew who was or wasn’t saved