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en-wikipedia-org-9241		A Model of Christian Charity - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1674	137	73	"A Model of Christian Charity" is a sermon by Puritan leader John Winthrop, delivered on board the ship Arbella on April 8, 1630 while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony,[1] although it might have been preached at the Holyrood Church in Southampton before the colonists embarked in the Winthrop Fleet.[2][3] It is also known as "City upon a Hill" and denotes the notion of American exceptionalism.[1] The sermon was known by reputation and preserved in contemporaneous manuscript copy held by the New-York Historical Society, but it was not published until the 1830s. John Winthrop begins his sermon by stating, "God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence, hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in subjection." He then states three reasons why God made people have different positions from one another: 	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9241.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9241.txt