The Puritans supported the establishment of a State Church
the verdict
CONTESTED
contested - the weight sits with the supporting side
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
1 source for · 0 against
AS REPORTEDno primary record reached; this is what the reporting says
Historical literature notes that while some Puritans worked within the established church, others did not, making the claim of universal Puritan support for a state church overstated by the single source provided.
These developments show both the wide influence of Puritanism at the time and the different ways Puritans responded to royal authority: some, such as William Perkins, Master of Emmanuel College, worked within the established church; others, such as William Ames, left England and spent much of their careers in places like Holland. The English Puritan movement, which had started under Elizabeth and grew under James, sought to push the Reformation in the Church of England further, to remove all remaining Roman Catholic influence, and to promote the interests of the English crown and people under a united Protestant confession that followed the Bible and Reformed theology closely. This Puritan vision, developed in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, would later lead to the Westminster Assembly and the Westminster Standards, including the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism, the Larger Catechism, and the Directory for Public Worship. Under James I of England, the Puritan movement and the conforming Church of England lived side by side within a generally accepted system of episcopal Protestant religion.