A Model of Christian Charity
A City on a Hill
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. -John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 In 1630, the ship Arbella left England carrying a group of Puritans led by John Winthrop for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. During this journey, Winthrop delivered a sermon, A Model of Christian Charity, in which he called upon the colonists to be stricter in their religious observance and to…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64679-262-7
- EAN: 9781646792627
- Produktnummer: 35494139
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 28 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.1 cm 43 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 43
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JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649), an English Puritan lawyer and the leading figure in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led the first immigrants from England in 1630 and served as this colony's governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years.
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