Transcript of Puritan Lesson
- 1. 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 byword through the world, we shall open the mouths of enemies
to speak evil of the ways of God and all professors for Gods sake;-
John Winthrop What does he mean by a City upon a Hill?
- 2. The passengers of the Arbella who left England in 1630 with
their new charter had a great vision. They were to be an example
for the rest of the world in rightful living. By the end of the
1630s, as part of a Great Migration of Puritans out of England,
nearly 14,000 more Puritan settlers came to Massachusetts, and the
colony began to spread.
- 3. There was not too much room for religious disagreement in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their devotion to principle was Gods
work; to ignore Gods work was unfathomable. When free-thinkers
speak their minds in such a society, conflict inevitably
results.
- 4. Why did the Pilgrims come to the New World? What was unique
about the Mayflower Compact? Where did the Pilgrims establish the
Plymouth Colony?