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A Model of Christian Charity: A City on a Hill

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Availability:In StockContributor:John WinthropPublish date:2020-12-09Pages:28
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646792627ISBN-10:1646792629UPC:9781646792627Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Christian Living, Sermons, United StatesBook Topic:Social Issues, Christian, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.07 inchesWeight:0.0904Product ID:SC77RBNHWH

"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 work together. He also declared that the settlers were destined to build a "city upon a hill"-influenced by the Bible's Sermon on the Mount.


This deeply religious text and its idea of a "city upon a hill," has inspired several presidents from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in their speeches about American exceptionalism.


Also from Cosimo Classics: Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630) by John Cotton.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646792627ISBN-10:1646792629UPC:9781646792627Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Christian Living, Sermons, United StatesBook Topic:Social Issues, Christian, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.07 inchesWeight:0.0904Product ID:SC77RBNHWH
Winthrop, John: - 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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