What did John Winthrop do in the Americas?
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He founded the Puritans, led by John Winthrop, came to America in 1630 in search of prosperity and, like the Pilgrims, for religious and political freedom.
Winthrop laid out many of the Puritans’ reasons for migration in his 1629 “Reasons to be considered for justifying the undertakers of the intended plantation in New England.” The Puritans, he explains, hoped to escape economic hardship and what they saw as worldly evils—corruption of churches and schools—in England and Europe. They also hoped to escape what they saw as remaining heresies and religious regulations in the Church of England. They saw America as a place where they could live out their beliefs, purify and fully reform the church, and advance the Christian Gospel.
In his well-known 1630 Model of Christian Charity sermon, Winthrop further explains the Puritans’ civil motives for migration. They desired to create a new Bible-centered commonwealth or civil state held together by Christian brotherly love, peace, and unity. Their community would be based on covenants and godly, moral laws. Referencing Matthew 5:14, they ultimately hoped that their community would provide a godly model—a “city on a hill”—for Europe and the world. “For we shall be a city on a hill,” writes Winthrop. “The eyes of all people are upon us.” In Matthew 5:14, Jesus tells His followers, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Indeed, the Puritans had a great vision in coming to America.
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