Individual Responses to the Quotes

Quote 1::The definition which the scripture gives us of love is this: ‘Love is the bond of perfection.’ [I]t is a bond or ligament. . . . There is no body but consists of parts and that which each part so contiguous to others as thereby they do mutually participate with each other, both in strength and infirmity, in pleasure and pain. . . . Christ and his church make one body. The several parts of this body, considered apart before they were united, were disproportionate and as much disordering as so many contrary qualities or elements, [however, when united], it is become the most perfect and best proportioned body in the world[.]”

i believe that this quote is saying that everyone is united, and that body has to work together to accomplish it's main goal

Quote 2:: “Whatsoever we did or ought to have done when we lived in England, the same must we do, and more also, where we go.”England was a powerful nation, and they wanted to copy their government without all the corruption.


Quote 3::“Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with him for this work. We have taken out a commission, the Lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles. We have professed to enterprise these actions . . . . Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and bring us in peace to the place we desire, then hath he ratified this covenant and sealed our commission, [and] will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in it.”
This quote means that if they showed people how much better it was when religion was purer then others would follow converting Native Americans.


Quote 4::
“[W]hen he shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding [colonies], ‘the Lord make it like that of New England.’ For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us[.]”

I believe that this quote means that city on a hill is a model colony for others to follow in New England.