More from Tyacke’s Anti-Calvinists:

That Calvinism was the de facto religion of the Church of England under Queen Elizabeth and King James may surprise those brought up to regard Calvinists and Puritans as one and the same. Such an identification, however, witnesses to the posthumous success of the Arminians in blackening the reputation of the Calvinist opponents; until the 1620s Puritan, as a technical term, was usually employed to describe those members of the English Church who wanted further Protestant reforms in liturgy and organization. Only thereafter was the definition of Puritanism publicly extended so as to include Calvinist doctrine. Thus in 1626 the Clvinist Bishop Carleton could write, in reply to the Arminian Richard Montagu: “this is the first time that ever I heard of a Puritane doctrine in points dogmaticall, and I have lived longer in the Church then he [Montague] hath done (pp. 7, 8).

Montague “dubbed Calvinists ‘Puritans'” in his book A New Gagg for an Old Goose (p. 47).Thus Samuel Ward’s complaint as to

why that should now be esteemed Puritane doctrine, which those held who have done our church the greatest service in beating down Puritanisme, or why men should bee restrained from teaching that doctrine hereafter, which has been generally and publiquely maintained, wiser men perhaps may but I cannot understand (p. 138).