Anne Hutchinson Quotes
- She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. - View Quote Details on She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a…
- 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. - View Quote Details on I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus, that…
- I will give you another scripture, Jer. 46. 27, 28 — out of which the Lord shewed me what he would do for me and the rest of his servants. — But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me… Ever since that time I have been confident of what he hath revealed unto me… Therefore I desire you to look to it, for you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you that as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do. You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul, and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin you will I bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it…. - View Quote Details on I will give you another scripture, Jer. 46. 27, 28…
- Courageous Exponent of Civil Liberty and Religious Toleration - View Quote Details on Courageous Exponent of Civil Liberty and Religious Toleration
- One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said… But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. - View Quote Details on One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than…
- If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true. 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 — This I considered of and 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?… The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me…. I bless the Lord, he hath let me see which was the clear ministry and which the wrong. Since that time I confess I have been more choice and he hath let me to distinguish between the voice of my beloved and the voice of Moses, the voice of John Baptist and the voice of antichrist, for all those voices are spoken of in scripture. Now if you do condemn me for speaking what in my conscience I know to be truth I must commit myself unto the Lord. - View Quote Details on If you please to give me leave I shall give…
- I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women. - View Quote Details on I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of…
- Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? - View Quote Details on Do you think it not lawful for me to teach…
- As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. - View Quote Details on As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are…
- You have spoken divers things as we have been informed very prejudicial to the honour of the churches and ministers thereof, and you have maintained a meeting and an assembly in your house that hath been condemned by the general assembly as a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God nor fitting for your sex… - View Quote Details on You have spoken divers things as we have been informed…
About Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson (July 1591 – 20 August 1643 ) Puritan preacher and religious dissident, banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her activities; born Anne Marbury.
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