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@pteranodo.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 11:14 AM

Martyr-bishop Hugh Latimer: our abundance exists to relieve our poor neighbours' misery. Today their misery is cited mostly as grounds for moving them somewhere else. A bold new reading of 2 Corinthians.
#christian #anglican #puritan #refugees #bible

Black square graphic. Left: a Tudor-era painted portrait of Hugh Latimer, a white-bearded man in a black cap and gown, holding a book with spectacles hanging at his chest, labeled "Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester," with a coat of arms. Beneath it in bold white italic type: "HUGH LATIMER (1485–1555)," then "A Sermon Preached by M. Hugh Latimer, at Stamford, November 9, Anno 1550." Right, in white text, the quotation: "And indeed so ought men to consider their gifts and goods to be given, ut illorum copia aliorum succurrat inopiae; that their abundance might succour the necessity, poverty, and misery of their poor neighbours; and not to waste it, consume it in riot and excess, but in deeds of mercy, in deeds of charity, and pity upon the poor."

@pteranodo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:17 PM

Puritan William Gouge on Hebrews 13:1–3: to brotherly love add hospitality, care for the sick and imprisoned, intercession for the oppressed, prayer for all. We all endorse love. It's the rest of the list that arrives with terms, conditions and acceptable diseases.
#christian #puritan

Black square graphic. Left: an oval oil portrait of William Gouge, an older man with a white moustache and goatee, wearing a black skullcap and a broad white collar, labeled "Wm Gouch." Beneath it in bold white type: "WILLIAM GOUGE (1578–1653)," then in italics, "Commentary on the Whole Epistle to the Hebrews." Right, in white text, the quotation from his comment on Hebrews 13:1–3: "Therefore as an apostle adviseth to add grace to grace, 2 Pet. i. 5-7; so I advise in this case to join to brotherly love hospitality, to the succouring such as are restrained by sickness, imprisonment, bonds, or any other way; to these join distribution to the necessity of the saints; hereunto intercession for the oppressed, consolation to the troubled in conscience, and finally prayer for all."

@2coolrobot69.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:36 PM

Something important I need people to know is that the reason I was a Puritan for so long is because let me be honest some of you guys are just kind of assholes and never bothered to like actually explain why age play isn't bad in a way that wasn't acting like I'm stupid
#kink #fetish #Puritan

@legoutervivre111.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:10 AM

Meanwhile in #puritan land

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#monde oinkerk

@robmoorechess.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:38 PM

2/2

There were objections to mandated forms, but the prayer book was generally not the concern. Governor John Winthrop's "a city upon a hill" cast a vision for #prayer, meditation, and practicing grace, "knit together by this bond of love." #puritan

#Massachusetts Bay Colony.

@robmoorechess.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:37 PM

1/2

Most #puritan settlers of the #Massachusetts Bay Colony did not consider themselves separatists, and Morning and Evening #Prayer were a tradition consistent with Scripture and church history.

@pteranodo.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:21 PM

Puritan vicar William Whately: search any town and most households are stuck fast in the mire of want. Say that now and people sniff for an agenda. His: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax, by others' scheming or their own folly.

How can you show mercy in the market?
#puritan #presbyterian

Black square graphic. Left: an engraved oval portrait of William Whately, an older bearded man in a skullcap and ruff, framed by a Latin inscription with Latin verses beneath. Below it in bold white type: "WILLIAM WHATELY (1583–1639)," then in italics, "A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage." Right, in white text, the quotation: "Run throughout an whole Town and Country, inquire into all the households, and search into all the estates of the greater number, and you shall find them broken, encumbered, low, dejected, and even sticking fast in the mud and mire of want and penurie."

@pteranodo.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 12:53 PM

Puritan John Bunyan: always selling for as much as you can get isn't done with an eye to God's glory. He saw the cruelty in hard bargains. Some cite "2,000 years of church teaching" minus this bit. Others assume the Reformed never had any decency to cite.
#reformed #theology #compassion #puritan

Black square graphic. Left: an engraved portrait of John Bunyan, a man with long wavy hair and a moustache, in a buttoned dark coat. Beneath it in bold white type: "JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)," then in italics, "Life and Death of Mr. Badman." Right, in white text, the quotation: "In all that a man does, he should have an eye to the glory of God, but that he cannot have that sells his commodity always for as much as he can, for the reasons urged before."

@pteranodo.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 10:51 AM

Robert Bolton, Puritan minister, called charity bought by evicting the poor "blood money" — the church should shun the giver, not launder the gift. Now, too often today, shunning's reserved for whoever criticizes the giver.
#puritan #selfexamination #oppression

Portrait of Puritan minister Robert Bolton (1572–1631) beside a quotation from his "The Saint's Self-Enriching Examination," decrying landlords who enclose land, drive the poor from their homes, and then offer charity as blood money bought "by oppression, extortion or usury, or by grinding the face of the fatherless."

@historicaljnl.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 6:55 AM

📣Out now on #firstview!

Lloyd Bowen @lloydbowen.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641'

#Terminology #Debate #Drama #Pamphlets #Theatre #Puritan #Print 17thc📜🗃️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This article revisits the contested origins of the political label ‘Roundhead’ during the English Revolution, challenging the conventional view that the term originated spontaneously during the Westminster tumults of December 1641. While historians have generally relied upon John Rushworth’s later account of David Hyde denouncing parliamentary crowds as ‘round-headed dogs’, this study demonstrates that the contemporary evidence is more ambiguous. It explores alternative formulations, particularly Hyde’s reported insult ‘Ram-headed rogues’, and situates both terms within a wider culture of anti-Puritan satire, theatrical caricature, and political mockery. Drawing upon pamphlets, dramatic literature, manuscript annotations, and print culture, the article argues that ‘Roundhead’ may already have circulated before December 1641, notably in Richard Brathwaite’s Mercurius Britannicus. The article therefore proposes a more complex genealogy for the term, showing how political identities emerged through the interaction of print, performance, satire, and popular mobilization rather than through a single moment of invention.

@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 4:29 PM

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