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The author argues that Puritan law (Paragraphs 4-6) *

A. Was based on their interpretation of the New Testament.
B. Was not as focused on punishment as many cultures today
C. Was rooted in a set of very rigid religious laws
D. Was weaker because of their inclusion of religion

( paragraph 4) In the matter of education the Puritans stood in the forefront. Many of the clergy were men of classical education, and through their efforts Harvard College was founded but six years after the great exodus5 began. Before the middle of the century Massachusetts required every township of fifty families to employ a teacher to educate the young in reading and writing, while every township of one hundred families must maintain a grammar school. The other colonies soon followed with similar requirements.

(Paragraph 5) But the most striking feature in the life of New England is found in its religion. The State was founded on religion, and religion was its life. The entire political, social, and industrial fabric was built on religion. Puritanism was painfully stern and somber; it was founded on the strictest, unmollified Calvinism;6 it breathed the air of legalism rather than of free grace, and received its inspiration from the Old Testament rather than the New.

(Paragraph 6) There was a gleam of truth in the charge of Mrs. Hutchinson7 that the Puritans lived under a covenant of works.8 This was because they had not yet fully grasped the whole truth of divine revelation. No further proof of the legalistic tendencies of Puritan worship is needed than a glance at their own laws. A man, for example, was fined, imprisoned, or whipped for non-attendance at church services. He was dealt with still more harshly if he spoke against religion or denied the divine origin of any book of the Bible. Laws were made that tended to force the conscience, to curb the freedom of the will, and to suppress the natural exuberance9 of youth — laws that could not have been enacted and enforced by a people who comprehended the full meaning of Gospel liberty, or had caught that keynote of religious freedom sounded by the ancient prophet and resounded by St. Paul and Luther, “The just shall live by faith.”