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WRITTEN ON BOARD THE ARBELLA, ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
A Modell of Christian Charity
(1630)
Wee shall finde that the God of Israell is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when hee shall make us a prayse and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "the Lord make it likely that of New England." For wee must consider that wee shall be as a citty upon a hill. The eies of all people are uppon us. Soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke wee haue undertaken, and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as his oune people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our wayes.