What Did John Winthrop Mean When He Told His Puritan

What did John Winthrop mean when he told his Puritan followers,"We shall be as a city upon a hill"?

A) That choosing to establish their new community on a hillside would enable the Puritans to keep a watchful eye out against sin on the lands below.
B) That God wanted the Puritans to form a religious community in the New World that would be an example for the rest of the world, and especially Old England.
C) That God had made the Puritans his chosen people over the Anglicans and Quakers.
D) That God had spared the Puritans major hardship in reaching the New World.
E) That by coming to the New World, they could reinvent all the rules of society.