John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards are Puritan writers who hold very different views on certain aspects of life and a relationship with God that is expressed profoundly in their works of literature. In “A Model of Christian Charity", Winthrop’s message to those who had followed him to the Massachusetts Bay Colony was that of unity through love, and the belief of irresistible grace would lead the community and those around to prosperity. Contrasting Winthrop’s perspective, Edward’s sermon “A Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” gave a message of innate depravity and a salvation that can only be attained through repentance or else they would surely be damned to Hell. The differences in Winthrop and Edward’s views on how to abstain from sin and how to achieve grace and salvation can be attributed to their individual experiences in their own communities and the period of time in which they lived. Newly appointed Governor Winthrop delivered his sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity” in 1630 on board the Arbella to the seven hundred or so emigrants who had joined him on the voyage to Massachusetts. The most prominent idea he spoke of is the idea that his colony would be like a city upon a hill that would give guidance to those who would be watching. The Bible describes the city upon a hill as being “the light of the world” (New American Bible, Matt.5.14). The scripture continues, “Just so your light must shineand glorify your heavenly Father” (Matt.5.16). Winthrop explains this excerpt from Matthew 5 in the form of a warning to his fellow Puritans: For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. (101) In this section of his sermon, the tone can be inferred as one of stern enco