City upon a Hill
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"City upon a hill" is a phrase derived from the teaching of salt and light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament. Originally applied to the city of Boston by early 17th century Puritans,
Civita di Bagnoregio, an unrelated city set on a hill in Italy dating back to the era in which the phrase is derived from
A Model of Christian Charity
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"A Model of Christian Charity" is a sermon of disputed authorship, historically attributed to Puritan leader John Winthrop and possibly written by John Wilson or George Phillips. It is also known as "
City upon a Hill
…You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. This scripture was cited at the end of Puritan John Winthrop's lecture or treatise, "A Model of Christian Charity" delivered on March 21, 1630, at Holyrood Church in Southampton, before his first group of Massachusetts Bay colonists embarked on the ship Arbella to…
Arbella in the Winthrop Fleet