 | Clergy - 1841 - 506 pages
...pray se and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "the Lord make it likely that of JVetp England." For wee must consider that wee shall be...of all people are uppon us. Soe that if wee shall dcale falsely with our God in this worke wee haue undertaken, and soe cause him to withdrnwe his present... | |
 | Perry Miller - History - 2009 - 260 pages
...expressed through time. Winthrop was aware of this aspect of the mission — fully conscious of it. "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty...upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us." More was at stake than just one little colony. If we deal falsely with God, not only will He descend... | |
 | Roger H. Brown - History - 1971 - 260 pages
...Puritans reached New England there have been Americans who have felt a strong sense of world mission. "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty...upon a Hill. The eies of all people are uppon us," John Winthrop avowed as the ship Arbella approached the shores of the future Bible commonwealth. A... | |
 | Charles L. Chaney - Religion - 1976 - 356 pages
...thether.115 The often quoted passage from Winthrop's sermon on shipboard reveals the same concern: "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us."116 However, with the first years of success in New England and the coming of the English Revolution,... | |
 | David E. Stannard - History - 1977 - 256 pages
...that their mission was not to erect a permanent, isolated utopia, but rather to build such a community "that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us."1 These were Englishmen who intended when the time was right to return to their homeland in triumph.... | |
 | Gene Wise - 1980 - 431 pages
...embodied in Winthrop's Arbella speech — "we must be knitt together in this worke as one man," "we shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us."69 When he is concerned with consequences later in the book — the HalfWay Covenant of 1662, the... | |
 | James J. Hennesey - Religion - 1983 - 418 pages
...aboard the Arbella sailing to Massachusetts Bay in 1630. In A Modell of Christian Charity he wrote: "We shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us." The Puritans saw themselves as a new Israel, a new chosen people ordered by God to make a new world.... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - Education - 1986 - 492 pages
...thought of Puritan New England . . . men shall say of succeeding plantations: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee...upon a Hill, the eies of all people are Uppon US. . . .' JOHN WINTHROP The Puritan was a man with a sense of purpose and mission directed by God. That... | |
 | Ann Kibbey - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 226 pages
...Political Ideas, 1558-1794, ed. Edmund S. Morgan (New York: BobbsMerrill, 1965), pp. 76-93. See esp. p. 93: "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty...upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us." Cotton uses the metaphor of the theater instead: "God hath set us (saith the Apostle [Paul]) upon a... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Fathers" waren ja ausgezogen, das neue Jerusalem als leuchtendes Beispiel für die ganze Welt zu gründen. "For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty...upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us", sagt John Winthrop in seiner den neuenglischen "Covenant" begründenden Laienpredigt "A Model of Christian... | |
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England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us... 
