John Winthrop
Charity", we can find remarks of an Aristocrat who seemingly is proposing new boundaries and standards of a nation being born. On board the Arabella, a sermon was given of the testament of one man's vision of the new land. The opening statements of this speech give us the impression of a god fearing man preaching of the hardships that the people on board this freighter, are about to undertake. "Some must be rich some poore," (Winthrop, 195), this statement although direct and cumbersome, seems to be a fair representation of the thesis this man is about to profess in the following words. "In ordering all these differences for the preservaticion and good of the whole and the glory of his greatnes 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 dispenceing his guifts to man by man" (Document without translation). This was an example of Winthrop's poetic way of indulging in the thought that the rich feeling safe with there comforts and luxury, is somehow a representation of the graces of a greater power, and that the stewards (poor) must serve the rich (princes) in masses in order to reflect the greatness of god. The officers seem to share m
Althought the poor are not given such wealth and are only representative of god as "stewards" they represent a divine purpose, and that purpose being different still has its place that cannot be changed. "wee shall surely perishe out of the good Land whether wee passe over this vast Sea to pessesse it; Therefore lett us choose life, that wee, and our seede, may live; by obeying his, voice, and cleaueing to him, for hee is our life, and our prosperity. The statement that the "poore, and disposed rise vpp against their superiors and shake off theire yoake", gives the sense that keeping your shoulder to the grind and servicing the rich and keeping there place they can honor the "King". " Thus saying that if a man should leave this land to explore other continets they still will live with the beautiful theory of god, but also with the misguided theory that men are created equal but only by there financial dispositions ordained by God. With a mentality that creates boundaries and lines within a culture to attempt to collectively protect a single class of citizen seems a little different than the democracy and promotion of political correctness that the "current" America is likely to experience, yet I still wonder if this is still an issue within our country. Within the latter parts of the sermon, ironically Winthrop protects the thought of sociological lines that were created in a country they were fleeing to get away from persecution. The same is to be said for the poor. ore in common with the bourgeois and the rich, yet sustaining a way of life for the affluent. Doing this service to the poor brings ultimately a service to god no matter how little that service may be.
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