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The Puritan faith shaped much of the early New England colonies in every way: politically, the economically and religiously. For this assignment begin by reading Shi “America”, Chapters 2 & 3, next read the assignment question on the attached assignment document carefully before you read the attached primary sources. Read the all sources carefully, taking notes as you read. After a thorough and careful reading of the text and the primary sources, answer the assignment question with insight and clarity. Answer the question fully, paying attention to all parts of the question. Draw upon what you have read but also reflect upon the relevant historical material covered in class.

Please leave the question on the assignment submission and place your responses directly after each question. The questions should be answered in 1-2 solid paragraphs. Use academic college level writing including evidence analysis, place in historical context. To support your answers, provide specific details and examples with in-text citations from the materials.

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Pilgrims and Puritans

The Puritan faith shaped much of the early New England colonies in every way: political, the economy and religiously. For this assignment begin by reading Shi “America”, Chapters 2 & 3, next read the assignment question carefully before you read the attached primary source “Model of Christian Charity.” Read the all sources carefully, taking notes as you read.

After a thorough and careful reading of the text and the primary sources, answer the assignment question with insight and clarity. Answer the questions fully, paying attention to all parts of the question. Draw upon what you have read but also reflect upon the relevant historical material covered in class.

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Assignment Questions:

Puritans led by Johnson Winthrop believed they could purify the Church of England from within. In 1630 they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the purpose of creating a community free of corruption of the Church of England and English society in general. On their journey, John Winthrop delivered the “Model for Christian Charity” sermon. After a thorough and careful reading of the eBook chapters and the primary sources attached, answer the assignment question with insight and clarity.

1. Who was John Winthrop speaking to in his sermon “Model of Christian Charity”? What do you think is the purpose of this sermon? What do you think Winthrop meant when he said, “We shall be as a City Upon a Hill”?

2. Explain Winthrop’s reasons for maintaining that everyone should have a set place in society and that wanting a different place would be harmful to the common good.

3. Winthrop argues against social equality and individual self-reliance. What are his reasons? What do you think of them?

4. What is the historical significance in America’s history of this sermon and the statement a “City on the Hill”?

5. How does Winthrop’s view of exceptionalism differ from modern concepts of America’s exceptionalism?

Are there components of Winthrop’s society that can still be seen in America?

John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

. . . First, for the persons. We are a company professing ourselves fellow members of Christ, in which
respect only, though we were absent from each other many miles, and had our employments as far
distant, yet we ought to account ourselves knit together by this bond of love and live in the exercise
of it, if we would have comfort of our being in Christ. . . .

Secondly for the work we have in hand. It is by a mutual consent, through a special overvaluing
providence and a more than an ordinary approbation of the churches of Christ, to seek out a place
of cohabitation and consortship under a due form of government both civil and ecclesiastical. . . .

Thirdly, the end is to improve our lives to do more service to the Lord; the comfort and increase of
the body of Christ, whereof we are members, that ourselves and posterity may be the better
preserved from the common corruptions of this evil world, to serve the Lord. . . .

Fourthly . . . we must not content ourselves with usual ordinary means. Whatsoever we did, or
ought to have done, when we lived in England, the same must we do, and more also, where we go. . .
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Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with Him for this work.
We have taken out a commission. The Lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles. We
have professed to enterprise these and those accounts, upon these and those ends. We have
hereupon besought Him of favor and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and bring us
in peace to the place we desire, then hath He ratified this covenant and sealed our commission, and
will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in it; but if we shall neglect the observation
of these articles which are the ends we have propounded, and, dissembling with our God, shall fall
to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnal intentions, seeking great things for
ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us, and be revenged of
such a people, and make us know the price of the breach of such a covenant.

Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel
of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit
together, in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be
willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others’ necessities. We must
uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must
delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and
suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as
members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The Lord
will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing
upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth,
than formerly we have been acquainted with. We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when
ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory
that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “may the Lord make it like that of New England.” 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. We shall open
the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God’s sake. We shall
shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses

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upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.

And to shut this discourse with that exhortation of Moses, that faithful servant of the Lord, in his
last farewell to Israel, Deut. 30. “Beloved, there is now set before us life and death, good and evil,” in
that we are commanded this day to love the Lord our God, and to love one another, to walk in his
ways and to keep his Commandments and his ordinance and his laws, and the articles of our
Covenant with Him, that we may live and be multiplied, and that the Lord our God may bless us in
the land whither we go to possess it. But if our hearts shall turn away, so that we will not obey, but
shall be seduced, and worship other Gods, our pleasure and profits, and serve them; it is
propounded unto us this day, we shall surely perish out of the good land whither we pass over this
vast sea to possess it. Therefore let us choose life, that we and our seed may live, by obeying His
voice and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity.

The full text of “A Model of Christian Charity” can be found online at the University of Virginia
Library’s Religious Freedom Page: http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/charity.html

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http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/charity.html

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