Across the water

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CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 19 Across the Water
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Ancient Church History
Medieval Church History
Modern Church History
Reformation Counter Reformation
Apostolic Church
The First Medieval Pope
The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
Apostolic Fathers
Rationalism, Revivalism, Denominationalism
The Crusades
Church Councils
Revivalism, Missions, Modernism
Golden Age of Church Fathers
The Papacy in Decline
The Pre-Reformers
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MODERN ERA
1517 1648 1790 2007
Reformation and Religious Wars
Polemical Orthodoxy rise of different schools of
theological thought
Modern Missionary Era Includes infidelity
various forms of modernism
CHALLENGES
Multiplication of distinct and separate churches
Multiplication of locations
Multiplication of information
FOCUS ON AMERICA
Importance and interest to us
Impact on the world
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Across the water.
The Colonization of North America
for God and gold
Spanish Portuguese Central South America
French Canada, Louisiana, Mississippi River
Valley
Why is the study of the 13 colonies most
important?
Sidney Ahlstrom A Religious History of the
American People

• Sheer numbers by 1710 Pennsylvania had more
  Europeans than all of New France

• The population of NE alone was greater than all
  white Spaniards

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Huguenots
South America
1555 Gaspar de Coligny - Brazil
North America
1562 Jean Ribaut
1564 Rene de Laudonniere
1685 revocation of edict of Nantes
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Who came to America, and why?
I. Church of England (Anglican)
1607 Jamestown
1693 College of William Mary
II. Pilgrims
1607 Scroobyites Holland
1620 Left England on Mayflower
Mayflower Compact church covenant applied to a
political situation
Aimed for Virginia, hoped for Newfoundland,
arrived in Mass
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But though these things did trouble them they
did not dismay them, for since their desires were
set on the ways of God and the enjoyment of his
ordinances, they therefore rested on His
providences and knew whom they had
believed John Brown Pilgrim Fathers
After 7 years 267 came 58 died 53 moved 156
remained, plus servants
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III. Puritans
It was an effort to rid the Christianity of
England from all things contrary to biblical
revelation, to remove all things whether in
doctrine, discipline, ceremony or polity which
had been added by Rome Dr. Panosian
It was a vigorous effort to bring Gods
discipline to this world, its people, and,
preeminently, to Gods Church Ahlstrom, p. 128
Ecclesiastical
Political
Doctrinal
Who were the Puritans?
Where did they come from?
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How did the Puritans leave England?
1628 New England Co.
1629 Massachusetts Bay Company
1630 April 8th Four ships sailed Gov. John
Winthrop

1. They had a firm covenant with one another
2. They had a commission from God to go
3. That the entire body must dwell together in
   Scriptural fashion and,
4. That they would be examples to the present world
   and to future generations

a citty on a hill
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What did the Puritans seek to establish in New
England?
A colony in which they could order their affairs
so as to please God in everything they did
CHURCH

• They never renounced the Church of England

We will not say as the Separatists were wont to
say at their leaving England, Farewell Babylon!
Farewell Rome! But we will say, Farewell, dear
England farewell, the Church of God in England
and all the Christian friends there! We do not
go to New England as Separatists from the Church
of England, though we cannot but separate from
the corruption in it. Francis Higginson
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• They formed Churches by voluntarily covenanting
  together then calling or ordaining a pastor, or
  both

• They employed a congregational form of church
  government

CIVIL

• Civil government was God ordained

• Only church members should vote

• No democracy but oligarchy the rule of the many
  by the few

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The church and state were separate, but dependent
on each other
The Puritans wanted nothing of religious
toleration
Applications or conclusions

• We must distinguish between our belief that they
  erred in their position regarding the
  relationship between the church and state while
  recognizing that they were following their own
  sincere convictions

• We must recognize that they attempted to maintain
  the unity of Christs universal church and not to
  be divisive