The Lord thy God will gather thee from all the nations and bring thee unto the land [of promise] and thou shalt possess it, and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers . And the Lord will put all these curses upon thine enemies and make the plenteous in every work of thine hand . See, I have set before thee this day life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may dwell in the land which the Lord swore unto thy father, to give them. (Deut. 30:3-20)

Geneva Gloss on "choose life":

"By faith in Christ love and obey God: which thing is not in man's power, but God's spirit only worketh it in His elect."

(2) City on a Hill:

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine, before men, that they may see your good works. And glorify your father which is in heaven. (Mat. 5:14-16)

Geneva Bible gloss on Matthew 5:

"Christ teacheth who are blessed . Your office is to season men with the salt of the heavenly example . Because you are seen far off, give good example of [everlasting] life.

Text:

Thus stands the case between God and us: We are entered into a covenant with Him [and if He] shall please to hear us then hath He sealed our commission . But if we shall neglect the observation of these articles [and] fall to embrace this present world seeking great things for ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us .Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck is to follow the counsel of Micah . We must be knit together in this work as one man . We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together always having before our eyes our community as members of the same body . [Thus] the Lord will delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and we shall se much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and truth than formerly . For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world And to shut up this discourse with that exhortations of Moses in his last farewell to Israel, Deut. 30: Beloved, there is now set before us life and death . We are commanded this day to love one another and to keep His commandments . [If] we will not obey we shall surely perish out of the good land [which] we pass over this vast sea to possess it.Context:Written on board the Arbella, on the Atlantic Ocean, by the Honorable John Winthrop, Esquire, in his passage (with the great company of religious people, of which Christian tribes he was the brave leader and famous governor), from the Island of Great Britain to New England in the North America.