Oliver Cromwell

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper. wikipedia

Cromwell ~ 1650

-terminated royalist and catholic control corrupting the British Isles

-believed the only true king was God;

-brought in freedom of worship for non catholics;

-advocated congregational control of local church governance;

-practiced an independent form of Puritanism;

-encouraged an educational freedom;

-as usual, church reforms, brought in by force, meant the reforms were short lived;

-puritanical hang-ups against a happy gospel were always going to be problem too !