Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury, was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth17 July 1591
CountryUnited States of America
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.
In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him-who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?
Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away?... Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist.