Responses to Quotes

Quote # 1
The benefit of having a well coordinated social, spiritual and political is the fact that they are united and well proportioned, they work together to accomplish a substantial community.

The metaphor makes sense to Winthrop's audience because he talks about God, and all the people who are listening to him are believers and can automatically relate to him because that was how they were raised.

Commonwealth would bring all the seperate parts together into a union.

Quote # 2
They called it New England because they saw it as a new opportunity, for another chance at making England better but still carrying aspects of the old England along because they still wanted to be apart of England, but just a fresher start that they could do over the things that were wrong in old England.

Quote # 3
They saw it as an opportunity to get away from the English Church and share their belief with others at which they thought was right.

Quote # 4
Winthrop viewed MA Bay Co. as a colony to look up to as an example for all the other colonies to look to as a role model. Future colonies would become more like MA Bay Co. because they were supposed to be the prime example of how colonies were supposed to be like in the new world.