Compare And Contrast Franklin Winthrop And A Model Of Christian Charity

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Franklin, Winthrop, and Rowlandson’s views on religion are all drastically different from each other. Winthrop believes in God, but he uses it as justification on how the Puritans are better than England. In his sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity” Winthrop writes:
We must love brotherly without dissimulation; we must love one another we a pure heart reverently. We must bear one another’s burthens. We must not look only for on our own things but also on things of our brethren, neither must we think that the Lord will bear with such failings at our hands as he doth from those among whom we have lived (Winthrop 102). Those lines are opposite of what England did to the Puritans. He uses powerful wording of God to get the Puritans riled

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