This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about modernized, includes an introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.
- ISBN10 0674484266
- ISBN13 9780674484269
- Publish Date 1 January 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 374
- Language English