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A Model of Christian Charity
![The page is browned. The text is in a serif font and is as follows (material in square brackets added by this Wikipedia editor): [line break] A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY [line break] WRITTEN ON BOARD THE ARBELLA, ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN [line break] By the Hon. John Winthrop Esqr. In his passage (with a great company of Religious people, of which Christian tribes he was the Brave Leader and famous Governor;) from the Island of Great Brittaine to New-England in the North America. Anno 1630. [line break] [a horizontal line] CHRISTIAN CHARITIE [line break] A Modell hereof. [line break] God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence hath soe disposed of the condition of mankinde, as in all times some must be rich, some poore, some high and eminent in power and dignitie; others mean and in submission. [line break] The Reason hereof. [line break] 1. Reas: First to hold conformity with the rest of his world, being delighted to show forth the glory of his wisdom in the variety and difference of the creatures, and the glory of his power in ordering all these differences for the preservation and good of the whole; and the glory of his greatness, that as it is the glory of princes to have many officers, soe this great King will haue many stewards, counting himself more honoured in dispensing his gifts to man by man, than if he did it by his owne immediate hands. [line break] 2. Reas: Secondly, That he might haue the more occasion to manifest the work of his Spirit: first upon the wicked in [the page ends]](view.php?q=A_Model_of_Christian_Charity&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:A_Modell_of_Christian_Charity,_1838_printing_by_the_Massachusetts_Historical_Society.png) "A Model of Christian Charity" printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, third series, vol. 7 (1838), page 34 | |
| Date | 1630 |
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| Also known as | "City upon a Hill" |
| The full text of the speech at the Winthrop Family Papers, of the Massachusetts Historical Society | |
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"A Model of Christian Charity" is a sermon of disputed authorship, historically attributed to Puritan leader John Winthrop and possibly written by John Wilson or George Phillips.[1] It is also known as "City upon a Hill" and denotes the notion of American exceptionalism.[2] The sermon was preserved by the New-York Historical Society, but it was not published until the 1830s.
- ^ McGann (2019, pp. 43–44).
- ^ Hacht 2007, pp. 359–370
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