Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Hutchinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Anne Hutchinson.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which 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 the Puritan religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ. — © Anne Hutchinson
The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.
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.
I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
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?
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
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.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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.
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.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
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.
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.
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
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?
Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God. — © Anne Hutchinson
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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 desire to know wherefore I am banished?
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.
Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.
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 bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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