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The Puritans were very heavy into their religion. Puritans came from the commercially depressed woolen districts. Calvinism fed on this social unrest and provided a spiritual comfort to the economically afflicted. As time went on, Puritans grew unhappy over the slow progress of the Protestant Reformation in England. Puritanism consisted of several parts which were predestination, calling, covenant, Protestant ethnic and conversion. Predestination was one belief that was in the doctrines of Calvin. Predestination was basically a group of people that had been marked for the internal fires. Good works and doings could n