Cambridge Agreement (August 26, 1629) of the Massachusetts Bay Company, was a compact between the members of the Massachusetts Bay Company consenting to change their charter from a business venture to a plantation charter. The document included their justification of the decision, stating:
<And having weighed the greatness of the worke in regard to the consequence, God's glory and the churches good.> 1629CA001
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Endnotes:
1629CA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Cambridge Agreement, August 26, 1629, of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Thomas Hutchinson, A Collection of Papers Relative to The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (London: 2nd ed., 1765), p. 25 ff. Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, 2 vols. (NY: F.S. Crofts and Company, 1934; Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948, 6th edition, 1958; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 9th edition, 1973), Vol. I, p. 18.