3God's glory is mentioned before the king's honor because as a religious people they saw this as most important, followed by spreading the Christian religion. The honor of king and country came third in this list of priorities. 4Virginia is mentioned because they were supposed to have gone to Virginia. The land in front of them did not yet have a name. In fact, they were not entirely certain where they were, except that they were too far north.
Civil societies enact laws, constitute a form of government, and frame ordinances.
After a number of laws have been passed, they are often organized into a set of ordinances which brings all the laws on a given topic together in one place and puts them in a logical order. Otherwise they remain scattered through the records of the legislature. The term ordinances was a synonym of statutes. Anno Dom. 1620. Note there are no women signers.