"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 ... we shall be made a story and a by-word
throughout the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil
of the ways of God. ... We shall shame the faces of many of
God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses
upon us til we be consumed out of the good land whither we are
a-going."
John Winthrop
John Winthrop
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