Culminating project pt3

Transcript

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Speaking of individuals, Winthrop illustrates the reality of people joining together as a group while maintaining their uniqueness to show a cohesive community.

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- "For this end, we must be knit together, in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others ’necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other; make others’conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together,always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body” (Winthrop 7).

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Overall, John Winthrop's principal goal was to promote the sense of community that exists among those who gather for the benefit of God's message.