John Winthrop, William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, and Anne Bradstreet were strong believers of Christ and believed that he was the King of all things, and they wanted to spread his word and love. ... John Winthrop's belief in the direction of God differentiates but has a similar belief God's love and fortitude. ...
John Winthrop explained to incoming settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that they would be a model of future settlements and must act as a "city upon a hill" and "work as one man" as God would want them to. ... John Winthrop knew that the settlers would agree, because if they did not cooperate, it would be disobeying what God wanted for the colony. ... Captain John Smith explained how on the voyage to Virginia, there was only talk about how each person was going to strike gold and become wealthy, rather than create a successful colony. ... John Winthrop set a foundatio...
This had challenged authority as if Christ was to rule the earth, there would be no need for a monarch which would pose a great threat to the king. ... John Lilburne, who was an English political leveler, was prepared to suffer extreme punishments for his outspoken views and would not stop. ...
(King 2) In a nation whose Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal,"" one might be forgiven for wondering why that didn't seem obvious from the start. ... New Spain as described by Christopher Columbus, (with his descriptions of plant life, exotic animals, and the "natives, ") appears a very different place than that as described by John Winthrop, whose inspiration seems rooted in the "Lawe of Grace or the Gospell." ...
John Locke's book, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," presents the concept of Tabula Rasa or blank slate, which states that the human mind receives knowledge through the experience without any pre-existing innate ideas when they were born. ... When the King sold Jim to a farmer named Silas Phelps, Huck was completely devastated. ...
