Note Note 4, page 106 — BOOK II. THE PURITAN MIGRATION.

A purified ritual. While attempting to mediate between the parties at Frankfort, Calvin expressed his preference for a ritual of greater purity than that established by the English Prayer Book of King Edward's time. Extreme Protestants rallied round this ideal of a liturgy purified of human tradition. It was some years later, after the Frankfort church had been dissolved and the exiles had returned to England, that this party came to be known by the name of Puritan—that is, a party not so much bent on purity of conduct as on purifying Protestant worship from mediæval forms. Note 4.