For this end,
wee must be knitt together in this worke
as one
man,
wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion,
wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities,
wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity,
wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community
as members of the same body, soe shall
wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us
as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that
wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly
wee have beene acquainted with.
Wee shall finde that the God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn 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 plantacions: the lord make it like 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 have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us,
wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till
wee be consumed out of the good land whither
wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.
He happens upon the Browns, who name him for the train station they meet him in and twenty minutes in the stage is set for a whimsical
wee tale equally interpretable
as a chirpy anti-UKIP yarn
as it is a harrowing parable on the consequences of
man's interference with nature, although it's mostly the former.