{"product_id":"gods-promise-to-his-plantation-9781646792726","title":"God's Promise to His Plantation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more.\" -2 Samuel 7:10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Cotton, a distinguished minister in England in the early seventeenth century, had been for years in contact with John Winthrop, a future leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. When Winthrop decided to depart with a fleet of ships carrying Puritans to New England in 1630, Cotton traveled to the English town of Southampton and preached his famous farewell sermon \u003cem\u003eGod's Promise to His Plantation\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sermon's purpose was to encourage emigration and to offer a religious argument for the journey to the New World. Like Winthrop's sermon \u003cem\u003eA Model of Christian Charity\u003c\/em\u003e (also from Cosimo Classics), it became a principal document of the history of the Puritans in the New World. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCotton, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - JOHN COTTON (1585-1652), a preeminent English clergyman, who was forced by the Church of England in 1632 to flee for New England. There he became an influential New England Puritan leader and minister. Cotton wrote several books, including Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646), a catechism for children, which is considered the first children's book by an American and remained popular into the nineteenth century.","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929593516306,"sku":"9781646792726","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5bab9e16-09f7-4156-8500-3def2c1ddce3.jpg?v=1739046510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gods-promise-to-his-plantation-9781646792726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}