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This is a 5 page paper discussing the qualities of character found in William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647” and John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity, 1630”. Both men sailed to the New World to set up Christian based communities which were independent of the English Church. Bradford’s journal documents the first thirty years of the Plymouth community and in addition to promoting the ideals of equality, liberty and the following of the Gospel, also deals with issues of corruption and the nature of man. Winthrop’s “model” was written on his voyage over and provides a much more idealistic look at a model Christian community. Elements of inequality of class and differences must continue within a structure of a community, Winthrop argues, but these differences are superceded by the virtues given to men by God such as sympathy, mercy, sensitivity and charity between the classes and within the Christian community which is based on the real love between Christians.
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be important texts in early American history and the origins of Christian settlements within the U.S. Both men sailed to the New World to set up Christian based communities which
were independent of the English Church. Bradfords journal documents the first thirty years of the Plymouth community and in addition to promoting the ideals of equality, liberty and the following
of the Gospel, also deals with issues of corruption and the nature of man. Winthrops "model" was written on his voyage over and provides a much more idealistic look at
a model Christian community. Elements of inequality of class and differences must continue within the structure of a community, Winthrop argues, but these differences are superceded by the virtues given
to men by God such as sympathy, mercy, sensitivity and charity between the classes and within the Christian community which is based on the real love between Christians. William Bradfords
journal "Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647" gives a first-hand report by Bradford of the first 30 years of the Plymouth Colony. Bradford was a passenger on the Mayflower and after the
death of the Plymouth Colonys first governor, John Carver in 1621, Bradford was elected governor and held that position for most of the next 36 years (Pilgrim Hall). The journal
is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in the 17th century, the "400-year-old document is in remarkably
good condition" according to historians and provides readers with the perfect blend of "fact and interpretation" by Bradford and can reveal a great deal about the characters of those within
the Plymouth Colony as well as the personal nature of Bradford himself (Pilgrim Hall). Bradfords diary immediately relates how the Pilgrims had to get away from England and the
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