England was going through a religious civil war and the protestants wanted to separate themselves from it. The religion puritanism came for protestant, the puritans felt the protestants weren't leaving the materialism of the England church. Puritans wanted to show England how a church run society should be governed and developed. The puritans leave for north America, which would be Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 called the mass puritan migration of 17 ships and 1000 colonists. During the passage, John Winthrop governor of the colony would give a sermon called “A Model of Christian Charity” to the puritans heading to the treacherous new world. Which preach of a bible commonwealth that would be a model for its people and the nations surrounding them.The sermon delivered by john Winthrop was ingenuity during an ethical dilemma because the speech gave the uneasy puritans a sense of …show more content…
He lays down the “god laws”which the puritans must live by. Laws for them to govern themselves by, being decent and faithful human beings to one another. The speech prepares the puritans for the dangerous unpremeditated land that if they were to succeed building this new society that the world and god would surely look upon them with beatific smiles. But if the puritans fail they would all go to hell. The voyage alone to the Americas was dangerous by any standard. Stuffed into a small wooden ship, along with the rocking back and forth at the mercy of the Atlantic ocean. The passage lasted usually 6-7 miserable weeks. But during all of this John Winthrop eased their worries with this sermon giving them a sense of community to bring the people together. “ Every man might have the need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the bonds of brotherhood”. If that didn’t give them a conversion experience I wouldn’t know what