In his “Model of Christian Charity,” delivered in 1630, John Winthrop exhorted his brethren: “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us” (Winthrop 1630). Winthrop made clear that, having entered into a covenant with God, the colonists had a responsibility to “seek out a place of cohabitation and consortship under a due form of government both civil and ecclesiastical. In such cases as this, the care of the public must oversway all private respects, by which, not only conscience, but mere civil policy, doth bind us.”