In the very speech in which he
spoke about the «City upon a hill,» Winthrop qualified it by cautioning that «if we shall deal falsely with our God in this
work we have
undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.»
He told MPs: «It is not unusual, when you are exploring a
working relationship with a client, to
speak in public together
about the
work that you hope to
undertake.»