Presbyterians: guided by higher governing bodies of ministers and laypersons Congregationalist: led by the congregation; each congregation conducts its own affairs; independent from one another, no other authority Puritans believed in the Calvinist philosophy of Predestination; that the saved, or Elect, were already chosen and good works did nothing to change one’s fate the Puritans strongly disagreed with English society, which they saw as too obsessed with gambling, theatergoing, drinking, ignoring…
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