Anne Hutchinson Quotes (30 Quotes)

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.

But put the case, Sir, that I do fear the Lord and my parents. May not I entertain them that fear the Lord because my parents will not give me leave

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

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.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

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 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.

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.

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.

If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true.

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.

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

I confess I have been more choice and he hath left me to distinguish between the voice of my beloved and the voice of Moses, the voice of John the 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.

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

What from the Church at Boston I know no such church, neither will I own it. Call it the whore and strumpet of Boston, no Church of Christ.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

When I first came to this land because I did not go to such meetings as those were, it was presently reported that I did not allow of such meetings but held them unlawful and therefore in that regard they said I was proud and did despise all ordinances. Upon that a friend came unto me and told me of it and I to prevent such aspersions took it up, but it was in practice before I came. Therefore I was not the first.

He that denies the testament denies the testator, and in this did open unto me and give me to see that those which did not teach the new covenant had the spirit of antichrist, and upon this he did discover the ministry unto me and ever since, I bless the Lord, he hath let me see which was the clear ministry and which the wrong.

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?

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.

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

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 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.

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.

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

I thinke the soule to be nothing but Light.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.