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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.
Publication Date
1630
Publisher
Zea Books
City
Lincoln, Nebraska
Disciplines
American Literature | American Studies | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Cotton, John, "Gods Promise to His Plantation" (1630). Zea E-Books in American Studies. 19.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeaamericanstudies/19
Comments
This introductory essay and the following text of Gods Promise to His Plantation were published in The Kingdom, the Power, & the Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall- Hunt Publishing, 1998). Copyright © 1998 Reiner Smolinski.