AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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____the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going____
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Fredrick Douglass
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John Winthrop
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Benjamin Franklin
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William Apess
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -His writing voiced his goal of creating a model Puritanical community, one that was free of the corruption the Puritans thought was running rampant both in English society and the Church of England. He told his listeners that their colony would only succeed if they followed God’s plan for them.
Detailed explanation-2: -So Winthrop’s sermon is part pep talk in which he tells his listeners that better times lie ahead. Our goal, he reminds them, is “to improve our lives to do more service to the Lord; [to insure] the comfort and increase of the body of Christ…
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