Laud took his mission as the head of the Church of England to be the squelching of this Puritan opposition.

劳德以其身为英国大主教的特权,极力打压着清教徒的反抗。

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The act of preaching sermons for Puritans was becoming more important, actually, than following the ceremonial rituals of the Church of England.

训诫对于清教徒而言愈发的重要，实际上，甚至比英国教会的宗教仪式更为重要。

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Now the Church of England establishment always countered these puritan treatises in attack of their position.

现在英国的教会当局,总是在清教徒的立场上对他们的论文进行反击。

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Puritans at this moment in English history were placing, when thinking about how things should work at church, more and more emphasis on the sermon, the institution of the sermon.

清教徒指的是在英国历史上，致力于研究教会事务，并把重点越来越多的放在布道训诫之上的人。

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So in the years just before 1637, the English court under James I and then later under Charles I -the English crown had been cracking down on the delivery of Puritan sermons in the church.

因此在1637年之前，詹姆斯一世以及,后来的查理一世，领导下的王庭,此时英国的王权已经在极力打击,清教徒训诫仪式的实行。

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A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

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