bishops, vestments and rituals of the Anglican Church as the leftovers of Catholicism. The Puritans wanted to restore the church to its primitive purity, as delineated in the New Testament. Perhaps one of the chief excellences of Puritanism was its attempt to combine correct theology with real Christian godliness. They avoided a dead, doctrinaire intellectualism on the one hand and a formless subjective mysticism on the other. They strove to think right, believe right, speak right and live right.