Scott Michaelsen is the author of this article explaining John Winthrop's Modell. Throughout the article Winthrop is decribed as having a lawyer / businesslike approach to his sermons. Winthrop was big on Covenant Law, meaning that law was based on agreements. Winthrop also had legalistic views on Mercy and Justice, defining mercy as the governing force behind giving, lending and forgiving. Defining Justice as governing lending agreements such as rules of collateral and repayment of debts. Winthrops views and ideals were atypical and out of step with the relgious leadership, in that he believed that the puritans had so to speak placed a contract for ratification on God's Desk.The strict idea of the covenant saturated the writings of John Winthrop ever increasing the interestingness of his ideals.
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