Essay On The Advantages Of The Protestant Reformation
Chapter and Module 4
Henry had taken advantage of the Protestant Reformation to obtain power in the Church of England. While the English Reformation had practically banned the Catholic Church, it also stated that the king was the only leader of the church. Elizabeth I pushed for intense Catholicism and Puritanism in the English church. While in opposition of Elisabeth I, James I and Charles I moved the English church away from puritan ideals, Charles I. revoked the Puritan represented parliament, and Charles also enforced anti-puritan policies. The monarchy once had thought of puritans as a focal point in New England, but latter on they pushed away Puritanism and treated puritans harshly which had upset many of those puritans to make plans to immigrate to either the West Indies, America, or Europe (Roark, …show more content…
While Puritans had fled to New England and made home there, Cromwell had believed that New England had no future, that God had gathered upright English citizens there so that, when the time came, they could answer the call to do his work elsewhere” (Kupperman, 95) If I had been a Die-Hard puritan back when Charles I. had reigned, I would’ve fled to America by ship because people shouldn’t be persecuted or punished for their own religion. When Charles had been executed, I probably would’ve been very ecstatic. The former king, Charles I., who had forced me to leave my homeland because of all the harshness shown to my religion which had been there for decades, was killed, so I would feel that he had gotten what he disserved. Oliver Cromwell had leaded the Puritan Revolution, but I don’t think I would’ve headed back to New England. I would’ve stayed in my American home with my family because if one king had decided to attack an entire religion, what to stop another monarch from doing the same thing again.
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Henry had taken advantage of the Protestant Reformation to obtain power in the Church of England. While the English Reformation had practically banned the Catholic Church, it also stated that the king was the only leader of the church. Elizabeth I pushed for intense Catholicism and Puritanism in the English church. While in opposition of Elisabeth I, James I and Charles I moved the English church away from puritan ideals, Charles I. revoked the Puritan represented parliament, and Charles also enforced anti-puritan policies. The monarchy once had thought of puritans as a focal point in New England, but latter on they pushed away Puritanism and treated puritans harshly which had upset many of those puritans to make plans to immigrate to either the West Indies, America, or Europe (Roark, …show more content…
While Puritans had fled to New England and made home there, Cromwell had believed that New England had no future, that God had gathered upright English citizens there so that, when the time came, they could answer the call to do his work elsewhere” (Kupperman, 95) If I had been a Die-Hard puritan back when Charles I. had reigned, I would’ve fled to America by ship because people shouldn’t be persecuted or punished for their own religion. When Charles had been executed, I probably would’ve been very ecstatic. The former king, Charles I., who had forced me to leave my homeland because of all the harshness shown to my religion which had been there for decades, was killed, so I would feel that he had gotten what he disserved. Oliver Cromwell had leaded the Puritan Revolution, but I don’t think I would’ve headed back to New England. I would’ve stayed in my American home with my family because if one king had decided to attack an entire religion, what to stop another monarch from doing the same thing again.
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