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Anne Hutchinson was a 16th-century English born religious figure. Anne Hutchinson was an English-born religious figure who was an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the nascent Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious formal declarations 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“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?”
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God Me Think

“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.”
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Time Must Younger

“But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.”
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“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.”
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“Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.”
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