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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot  There were certainly Congregational Puritans, but Presbyterianism was the primary Puritan ecclesiology. .......... |
Presbyterian polity may have been the primary one in the Assembly. I think it would be hard to argue that the Assembly was truly representative of the nation as a whole. The Baptists for instance had no representatives at the Assembly and the Independents who were not Baptist only had a hand full of representatives. But even a handful were able to frustrate the Presbyterian objective of establishinig Presbyterian polity as the nationally accepted one and subsequent events demonstrated that it would not have been acceptable to the nation.
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Originally Posted by larryjf Getting back to the OP...i think that many times the Puritans are confused with the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were congregationalist. |
Many ejected Puritans became Baptists and others became Independents. The Pilgrims were puritans who had given up all hopes of the CoE being thoroughly reformed and saw a better hope of establishing a biblical polity in a new land.