Posted on 06/13/2004 1:23:52 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke and to provide for our posterity is to followe the Counsell of Micah, to doe Justly, to love mercy, to walke humbly with our God, for this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meekenes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in eache other, make others Condicions our owne rejoyce together, mourne together, labour, and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of His wisdome power goodnes and truthe then formerly wee have beene acquainted with, wee shall finde that the God of Israell is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when Hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the Lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause Him to withdrawe His present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the wayes of God and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Israell Deut. 30. Beloved there is now sett before us life, and good, deathe and evill in that wee are Commaunded this day to love the Lord our God, and to love one another to walke in His wayes and to keepe His Commaundements and His Ordinance, and His lawes, and the Articles of our Covenant with Him that wee may live and be multiplyed, and that the Lord our God may blesse us in the land whether wee goe to possesse it: But if our heartes shall turne away soe that wee will not obey, but shall be seduced and worshipp other Gods our pleasures, and proffitts, and serve them, it is propounded unto us this day, wee shall surely perishe out of the good Land whether wee passe over this vast Sea to possesse it;
Therefore lett us choose life,
that wee, and our Seede,
may live; by obeyeing His
voyce, and cleaveing to Him,
for Hee is our life, and
our prosperity.
Didn't his spell check work?
Have the networks approached you for your own sitcom?
That was beautiful, Luis. Thank you for posting it. Disregard the idiot comments.
Like everyone else, I heard Reagan talk about the shining city on a hill, and wanted to read the entire sermon.
I found the end to be quite astonishing.
These are the words of my ancestor, John Winthrop, and to me they are beautiful, even if full of mispellings.
Thanks Luis..BTT
Therefore lett us choose life,
that wee, and our Seede,
may live; by obeyeing His
voyce, and cleaveing to Him,
for Hee is our life, and
our prosperity.
Gov Winthrop was NOT a nice person. He was a persecutor of those he did not agree with. Which was sadly typical in those days.
See Mary Dyer. The Quaker martyr.
there was no such thing as standardized english back then. He didn't mispell, spelling was just still deeply influenced from the old english. he was probably a very educated man. I have a masters in english by the way.
Beautifully said isn't it! Thanks for the ping, Luis.
As an aside, Luis, when I memorized the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, I memorized it in 'Olde English'. I enjoyed reading the piece you posted just as spelled.
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