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Quotation from A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
“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 walk humbly with our God.”
A Model of Christian Charity, Application, p. 46 (1838 printing) (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1838)
After warning of God's wrath if the covenant is broken, Winthrop gives Micah 6:8 as the remedy.
Citation: "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 walk humbly with our God." — John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, Application, p. 46 (1838 printing) (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1838). (id a-model-of-christian-charity-q5)
Portrait: A Modell of Christian Charity, 1838 printing by the Massachusetts Historical Society, Unknown author, Public domain.
