ABSTRACT
The doctrine of covenant permeated all aspects of ecclesiastical, social, and political thought by the time of the Puritan Revolution in the middle of the seventeenth century. The Puritan Revolution produced a prophetic movement that understood more than others the ramifications of its doctrines for the coming age. The movement only lasted for a brief, four-year period of time during the late 1640s, but it displayed more than others the wide-ranging power of Puritan ideals and the direction those ideals would take in the coming era. The Puritans brought similar views of church and state to America in the early part of the seventeenth century. According to Perry Miller, Stephen Foster, and many scholars, the Puritans brought the same central vision of church and state with them when they settled in America, even if it developed in time into new constellations as an accidental product of a different set of circumstances.
