![]() The indigenous people mainly the Indians did not agree with their religion and a conflict arose. There is no way the Puritans and the Pilgrims could have just sailed on the new lands and expect to take over the new lands from the indigenous people. However, what they believed was their destiny was to be faced by different challenges. They traveled to the new lands so that they could have new colonies and spread their religion (“Cobbs Hoffman & Gjerge, 65”). I think they meant well for the purposes of religion and uniting one another. When the Pilgrims first landed with ‘The Mayflower’ in the new land, they signed a treaty that they were going to work together. This was because of the challenges they faced in the new land. The Puritans and the Pilgrims all expected to form colonies of New England in the newfound land but I think that was not to happen. What the groups thought was promised and was there will, was not to be attained based on the different problems and challenges they faced. ![]() All of these groups had one thing in common, to spread their religion into the Promised Land. The Puritans had come to form new colonies for New England. After them, they were followed by another group of people known as the Puritans. ![]() However, after, sailing for more than nine weeks they set show on a nearby place, cape good hope. The Pilgrims defected from the Church of England. Despite their differences, their faith and their physical distance from England drew them together in a new land.The Pilgrims set sail aboard the ship, “The Mayflower” to find the chosen lands where they could begin a new life. But since there were no bishops or other hierarchy in the colony to support the Church of England bureaucracy, they became, in a sense, de facto separatists.Įventually, both Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies embraced the Congregational Way. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, however, the Church of England was still the official church and everyone was under the jurisdiction of the parish. Instead of a church hierarchy and appointed priests, each congregation had the power to choose and ordain its own minister, and to accept or dismiss individual members. These believers were bound together by a covenant with God. Instead of including everyone who lived in a community, no matter their belief or personal character, the Pilgrims believed that only committed Christians should belong to a “gathered” church. In Plymouth Colony, the separatists favored a congregational approach to church government, which came to be known as the Congregational Way. Puritans wanted to reform, or “purify” the Church of England from within, while the Pilgrims were “separatists” who had given up on the possibility of reform and wanted to establish their own separate church. The difference between the Puritans and Pilgrims was their approach. It’s not surprising that there were calls for change. Parish priests were assigned to communities and individual priests were often their “living” as a political favor to a family. The worship services were read and there was little or no preaching. Everyone who lived in England was a member of the church parish in their community whether they wanted to be or not. In England, the Church of England was the only legal church. Puritans and Pilgrims were distinct groups with fundamentally different approaches to the religious issues of their day. Both were part of the Protestant Reformation and they both wanted change.īut they weren’t the same. They both settled in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims in Plymouth in 1620, and the Puritans in Salem nine years later. ![]() Both had issues with the Church of England and were looking for a place where they could worship according to their beliefs and principles. They were both from England, braving the dangerous Atlantic crossing to the new world in pursuit of religious freedom. From our 21st century vantage point the Puritans and Pilgrims look much the same.
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