I The Consciousness of Sin II The Impossibility of a City on a Hill 1 The Presence of Sin The True and False Principles of Trade 1639 2 Compromises with the World a The Halfway Covenant b Sumptuary Laws ID: 625793
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The Failure of the Puritan Community
I. The Consciousness of Sin
II
. The Impossibility of a City on a Hill
1) The Presence of Sin: The True and False Principles of Trade (1639)
2) Compromises with the World: a) The Halfway Covenant b) Sumptuary Laws
III. Land, Class and CommunitySlide2
Terms:
Sumptuary
Laws
“Spiritual Milk for American Babes” (1646)
True & False Principles of Trade (1639)
Halfway Covenant (1662)Slide3
Themes:
1) Puritans lived with tremendous inner tension. The consciousness of sin always battled with the aspiration toward grace.
2) Their perfect community was doomed to failure. Human imperfections and growing social tensions made it impossible to sustain.Slide4
The Tension WithinSlide5
John Cotton,
Spiritual Milk for American Babes
(1646) reflects the inner anxieties of PuritanismSlide6
John Cotton, 1585-1652Slide7
The Impossibility of Puritan CommunitySlide8
"forced worship stinks in God's nostrils“ – Roger Williams.
Williams arrived in Massachusetts in 1631 and was in exile in Rhode Island by 1636Slide9
True & False PrinciplesSlide10Slide11
Compromises With the WorldSlide12
Solomon Stoddard’s House, Northampton
Stoddard was a major supporter of the Halfway CovenantSlide13
Sumptuary Laws Attempted to Control How Puritans DressedSlide14
Land, Class & CommunitySlide15
The Savage Family
,
a 1779 painting by the New England painter Edward SavageSlide16
Within
a few generations competition for land undermined the early sense of community.