false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180459888m/1042858.jpg 1042858 1 This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 per cent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation 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. 1029261 1 1 1997 The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-49 (Belknap Press) total:6|5:1|4:0|3:2|2:3|1:0| 6 17 9 1 2 0 false false Fri Aug 14 21:50:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 21:51:20 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Oct 23 10:41:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 10:41:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 05:13:15 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 05:13:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 02:36:57 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 02:36:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 31 06:52:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 06:52:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 11 13:26:27 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 13:26:29 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Oct 08 15:08:29 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:08:29 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jun 12 13:10:19 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 13:10:19 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 25 06:53:36 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 15:24:17 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 06:53:36 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1042858