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The Covenant & the Charter - The City on the Hill
March 1630. Eleven ships leave Southampton carrying seven hundred Puritan settlers — not refugees scraping for survival, but lawyers, craftsmen, landowners, and clergy. They have a plan. They have a charter. And they have a sermon.
John Winthrop, the newly elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, tells the people on those ships that they are building a city on a hill. That the eyes of all people will be upon them. That if they fail the covenant they are about to make with God, He will not simply withdraw his blessing — He will consume them.
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