history quote responses

John Winthrops Arbella sermon
• throw away your old habits,
• what it meant by calling the new land, ‘new England’ is that they would run their new land the same way to establish a colony but to rid of the bad habits and without the corruption
• they wanted to relate the name of their new country to keep England as an alibi, they wanted to stay on good terms. They knew that they wouldn’t be able to fight their own home country in a war, maybe scared?
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• God gave them a chance to start or renew Christianity without corruption or the ‘dirty deeds’ in the new world
• Like god saving them from Egypt and giving them a new start and build a new England
• God wants them to set an example of Christianity for the people watching them in starting their new colony.
“City Upon a Hill”
• between 1630 and 1640, more than twenty thousand new settlers emigrated to new England, induced by Winthrops vision of a “city upon a hill”
• by 1640, New England had one of the highest ratios of preachers to population in all Christendom
• New England immigrants tend to come from the middling ranks of English society
• In contrast to the Chesapeake, New England immigrants usually came as families