The journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
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The journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
（John Harvard library）
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996
Abridged ed
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Journal of the transactions and occurences in the settlement of Massachusetts and the other New England Colonies
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780674484269
Description
This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about modernized, includes an introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780674484276
Description
The journal of Governor John Winthrop, one of the key documents of early New England history, records the first two crucial decades of the Bay Colony. Writing in a precise expository style, Winthrop details the myriad religious and political problems of the new settlement. The modernized abridgment incorporates about 40 percent of the text and includes a copy of Winthrop's sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity." This abridged edition, complete with introduction and annotations, also modernizes the governor's spelling and punctuation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Editorial Method A Model of Christian Charity The Journal of John Winthrop Abbreviations Suggested Further Reading
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