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It was right here, in the waters around us, where the American experiment began. As the earliest settlers arrived on the shores of Boston and Salem and Plymouth, they dreamed of building a City upon a Hill. And the world watched, waiting to see if this improbable idea called America would succeed.
Jun 28, 2010 · The “City upon a Hill” section of the essay called “A Model of Christian Charity” was written in 1630 by the Puritan leader John Winthrop while the first group of Puritan emigrants was still onboard their ship, the Arbella, waiting to disembark and create their first settlement in what would become New England.
James Savage, a curmudgeonly man devoted to archives, manuscripts, and records, was fast becoming the most important and renowned authority on seventeenth-century Puritanism. In 1825, he had carefully edited and published John Winthrop’s important journal, The History of New England.
The sermon is famous largely for its use of the phrase “a city on a hill,” used to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world. But Winthrop’s sermon also reveals how he expected Massachusetts to differ from the rest of the world.
Feb 18, 2020 · When politicians and scholars first began calling the United States a “city on a hill,” they pointed to the place of these words in “A Model of Christian Charity,” a sermon supposedly preached aboard the Arbella by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay, as he and his Puritan followers sailed to New England. In that ...
Eisenberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Saale-Holzland. Neighboring municipalities are Jena (25 kilometres (16 miles) in west) and Gera (15 kilometres (9 miles) in south east). West of Eisenberg runs the motorway A 9 from Berlin to Munich.
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John Winthrop’s “City upon a Hill,” 1630. 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. For this end, wee must be knitt together, in this worke, as one man.
