A Puritan lawyer by the name of John Winthrop who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony wrote an outline in 1630 for the future governance of the newly discovered lands of North America. It was entitled "A Model of Christian Charity". It was to serve as the framework for both a civil and ecclesiastical system of governance for the new colony of religious refugees. This American compact, amongst others, would serve to recognize and acknowledge that the destiny of the 17th century arrivals of religious refugees to America was to be similar to the divine plans for God's prototypical, covenantal Hebrew people. The new settlers went out of their way to voluntarily obligate themselves to be accountable and subject to the same moral standards of righteousness established for the Hebrew people as delineated in the Bible's first testament.

Moral and civic promises made to God were voluntarily linked by the new arrivals to their destinies and land acquisition. Their dedication of the newly discovered lands to the Kingdom of God was tied to their choice of God's moral law to be the foundational basis for their governmental operations. God's blessings which would produce both their spiritual and material success, were dependent on their abiding by the same terms and conditions pre-existing in the covenants between the God of Israel and the Hebrew people.

Did this covenant between the settlers and God run with the land for later generations?

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