He was beginning to join ranks with those early seventeenth-century English Protestants who imposed upon themselves rigorous and strict codes of behavior and self-denial, and who were increasingly being called by their enemies Puritans.

他要开始加入,17世纪早期英国新教徒的行列,那些人把严格的行为准则和自我否认,强加到自己身上，还不断被敌人称为清教徒。

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They took advantage of their opportunity, seized their opportunity and imposed their own form upon it.

他们抓住机会，紧握他们的机会,并强加入他们自己的形式。

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Final point then is...and we're not going to talk about salvation right now...but we're going to talk about the fact that the only supreme law is the will of God, because God is a creator God rather than a created God. He's imposed order, an order upon the cosmos.

最后一点，我们并不准备马上讲救赎,我们准备讲的事实是唯一的,至高无上的法律就是上帝的意愿，因为上帝是一个创造者,而不是被造出来的上帝，他对宇宙发号施令。

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