Bradford, William. Mayflower Compact(1620). MS, 24 Beacon st, State House Room 341,Boston,MA 02133.
This surviving account, signed by the 21 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, is the first written framework of government in what is now the USA. This only surviving account, the compact, was made to prevent hatred and dissent amongst Puritans and those Pilgrims who had landed a few days later. The purpose of the compact was to also create a civil body politic to enforce just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices.
Columbus, Christopher. Columbus's Description of the Discovery of America, ed. Bortolomeo De Las Casas Journals. Journals, Thursday, October 11, and Friday October 12, 1492.
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History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay: The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson(1637), vol. II, 1767 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936), pp. 366–84.
In this book, Thomas Hutchinson uses the same dialogue of the antinomian controversy of 1636-1638 that broke out in the months of a religious revival led by Cotton when a spiritual melancholy gripped the colonists. Hutchinson had been holding biweekly devotional meetings to discuss Cotton’s sermons at her home, which drew as many. She brought attention to Cotton’s spirit-centered theology, claiming him and her brother-in-law John Wheelwright as true Christian ministers against the “legal” preachers who taught that a moral life was sufficient grounds for salvation. With Cotton and Wheelwright, Hutchinson believed that redemption was God’s gift to his elect and could not be earned by human effort: the soul remained passive to the work of divine grace in the drama of salvation. In the dialogue she claims to be led by revelation, therefore, this threatens the law and order as well as the ministers. Consequently, Hutchinson was banished and excommunicated from the church. This controversial movement gave woman a broader view of leadership through the 17th
This surviving account, signed by the 21 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, is the first written framework of government in what is now the USA. This only surviving account, the compact, was made to prevent hatred and dissent amongst Puritans and those Pilgrims who had landed a few days later. The purpose of the compact was to also create a civil body politic to enforce just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices.
Columbus, Christopher. Columbus's Description of the Discovery of America, ed. Bortolomeo De Las Casas Journals. Journals, Thursday, October 11, and Friday October 12, 1492.
This version of Christopher …show more content…
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay: The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson(1637), vol. II, 1767 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936), pp. 366–84.
In this book, Thomas Hutchinson uses the same dialogue of the antinomian controversy of 1636-1638 that broke out in the months of a religious revival led by Cotton when a spiritual melancholy gripped the colonists. Hutchinson had been holding biweekly devotional meetings to discuss Cotton’s sermons at her home, which drew as many. She brought attention to Cotton’s spirit-centered theology, claiming him and her brother-in-law John Wheelwright as true Christian ministers against the “legal” preachers who taught that a moral life was sufficient grounds for salvation. With Cotton and Wheelwright, Hutchinson believed that redemption was God’s gift to his elect and could not be earned by human effort: the soul remained passive to the work of divine grace in the drama of salvation. In the dialogue she claims to be led by revelation, therefore, this threatens the law and order as well as the ministers. Consequently, Hutchinson was banished and excommunicated from the church. This controversial movement gave woman a broader view of leadership through the 17th