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TITLE:

Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630)

AUTHOR(S):
John Cotton
Reiner Smolinski , Editor, Georgia State University

DOCUMENT TYPE: Article

ABSTRACT:

The work reprinted here, in an online electronic text edition, is Cotton’s famous farewell sermon preached at the departure of the Winthrop fleet in Southampton in 1630. Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630)—courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society—is an ideological justification for engaging in such a risky venture, a promotional tract to encourage emigration, and a typological argument for possessing the wilderness. Like Winthrop’s famous A Model of Christian Charity (1630), John Cotton’s sermon is central to the Puritan experiment in the New World.