"I said they won't come while you shut down most of the taverns and make the place like the inside of a Puritan church!"

It was a Puritan congregationalist church when first established, but since the mid-18th century has been Unitarian, in spirit if not in name.

Abraham's father was the pastor of the Puritan (Congregational) church in Branford from around 1647 to around 1667.

Settling in Boston with her husband, William, she attracted considerable enmity in high places when she challenged the authority of the Puritan church.

Full membership in the tax-supported Puritan church required an account of a conversion experience, and only persons in full membership could have their own children baptized.

This effort led to the creation of the Halfway Covenant, in order to boost participation in the Puritan church.

I felt sure those big square Puritan churches on the town green would be helpless in the face of a European vampire.

Universalist churches in contrast followed a different path, having begun as independent congregations beyond the bounds of the established Puritan churches entirely.

They established a Puritan church rather than the Church of England, enforcing this establishment with severe penalties.

I am working to keep them attentive and awake, just like a good minister would do in a Puritan church in a long Sunday session.