inthrop came to new America from England, leading a group of Puritans (a breakaway group of the Church of England, who claimed the church was corrupt), in their quest to form a new life and new opportunities in the colony of Massachusetts.
             During this voyage, Winthrop made a sermon to the people on board The Arabella, telling them their purpose was to form a model colony, where they could live as god had intended them to. Winthrop told his followers that if they worked together and obeyed the commandments given to them, God would bless their new colony and they would prosper. Winthrop wrote:
             So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The lord will be our god, and delight to dwell among us as his own people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways. (Winthrop NAAL 2003:216)
             As opposed to Jefferson, who allowed double meaning in his choice of words and phrases, Winthrop used deliberate biblical references to appeal to his Puritan audience. Winthrop's metaphor of a 'City on a Hill' was taken from the Biblical passage Matthew 5:14, which gives rise to the notion that his vision of a 'City on a Hill' would become the new Jerusalem.
             Winthrop was an accomplished puritan writer and he used the puritan practice of interpreting biblical scriptures to decipher the future. As our ENG361 Study Guide explains, "Signs and events in the Old Testament were considered as foreshadowing events and people in the New Testament. In such interpretation, the original phenomenon was considered the 'type' and the later 'antitype'." (ENG361 Study Guide 2004:39) If we consider this puritan typology practice, then the Puritans journey to the new world can be seen as an antitype of the exodus of the Israelites in the bible. Winthrop was very aware of, and used typology in his writing and his 'City on a Hill' as prophesied in his sermon, can be viewed as an ant...