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
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
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.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
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?
I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
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 do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
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?