Compare And Contrast Anne Bradstreet Model Of Christian Charity

John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity,” Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse, and Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World connect and juxtapose world events during the 1600s. Winthrop supposedly presented his “Model of Christian Charity” sermon on the Arabella en route from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While the Mayflower Compact was not a sermon, it connects to Winthrop’s sermon in two ways. First, both are significant to the ships they were presented on, the Mayflower and Arabella, and the people on them are either part of the Pilgrims or Puritans. Second, both are devoted to God in one way or another, whether it be it to come together in God’s Glory at Plymouth or to deliver a sermon. Bradstreet’s poems about Queen Elizabeth were written after the queen had died while the monarchy was defunct. In 1860, ten years after The Tenth Muse was published, the monarchy was restored and King Charles II took over the throne. Bradstreet had begun to shift her poetry to a more personal style by this time though.
While the puritans were aboard
Still life was not the only thing painted in the Netherlands as Cornelis Saftleven’s Witch’s Sabbath came from the same time, around forty years later, the Salem Witch Trial occurred in the colonies. Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World was written in defense of his witch hunt efforts. Saftleven’s painting connects the same general idea of witch’s existing. Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, The Tenth Muse by Anne Bradstreet, and “Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop all connect with other events that happened around the same time; many events could have occurred and sparked another event to occur. Other events were very different and did not relate but did happen during the seventeenth