A Model of Charity

John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, 1838), 3rd series 7:31-48. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITTEN ON BOARD THE ARBELLA, ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. [p.33] By the Hon. John Winthrop Esqr. In his passage (with a great company of Religious people, of which Christian tribes he was the Brave Leader and famous Governor;) from the Island of Great Brittaine to New-England in the North America. Anno 1630. CHRISTIAN CHARITIE. A Modell hereof. GOD …

…giues the body its perfection, because it makes eache parte soe contiguous to others as thereby they doe mutually participate with each other, both in strengthe and infirmity, in pleasure and paine. To instance in the most perfect of all bodies; Christ and his Church make one body; the severall partes of this body considered a parte before they were united, were as disproportionate and as much disordering as soe many contrary quallities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**