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 more in common with the bourgeois and the rich, yet sustaining a way of life for the affluent. The thought of god being, "honoured in dispenceing his guifts to man by man" seems to be an ideology of the rich with there luxuries being able to pass down some of that wealth. Doing this service to the poor brings ultimately a service to god no matter how little that service may be. Supporting elements can be found within the sermon; "riche and mighty should not eate vpp the poore, nor the poore, and disposed ris vpp against their superiors and shake off theire yoake", this seems to tie the previous remark by explaining that by not "eating up the poor&qu...

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