John Winthrop
The speaker of “A Model of Christian Charity,” John Winthrop was a lay preacher and the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In his liberal use of the plural pronoun “we,” Winthrop includes himself in…
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Colonists
As a treatise on society and universal morals, “A Model of Christian Charity” does not contain characters, per se. But it is important to note the addressees of Winthrop’s sermon: a group of over…
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