Quotes from Anne Hutchinson

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.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

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?

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

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.

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.

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.