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A Model Of Christian Charity Summary
In “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630), John Winthrop states that society should have an absolute covenant to God and be as established as a government. Winthrop elucidates on this model of a perfect society by creating a metaphorical object, with love being “the bond of perfection” and “ligament”, in which it’s knitted into bodies(“Christ and church are one body”) that act as brotherly love. He proceeds with reasons for this society, such as holding conformity, controlling peace between classes, and creating bonds of brotherly-love, in order to prevent people from instituting grave consequences (“so cause him to withdraw his present help from us). Winthrop clearly addresses people of his own and his fleet, that is Puritans and Christians,
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