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During this time God and church were the top priorities of people's life's. It was actually against the law to not attend church. They lived by a theocracy and believed that every sin should be punished.
“Ministers were looked to for guidance by the judges, who were generally without legal training, on matters pertaining to witchcraft”(Linder Par. 13).
The practice was for men orally [women in writing] to make confession of faith and a declaration of their experiences of a worke of grace in the presence of the whole congregation, having been examined and heard before by the elders in private and then stood propounded in public for two or three weeks ordinarily, John Cotton [the younger], 1679.
These are some of the purifications they wanted: Reform the government of the Church of England, its worship, and teachings. Stop the clerical dress, the kneeling at the Mass, the sign of the cross... the ministers should be chosen by the people, and the office of the bishop abolished; this amounted to a demand of the Presbyterian form of church as Calvinism, in place of the Episcopalian way of Anglicanism.
