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Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley:
Because you will deny the thing.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: Ey, but that is to be proved first.
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: I will make it plain that you did say
that the ministers did preach a covenant of works.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: I deny that.
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: And that you said they were not able
ministers of the New Testament, but Mr. Cotton only.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: If ever I spake that I proved it by God's
word.
Court: Very well, very well.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: If one shall come unto me in private, and
desire me seriously to tell them what I thought of such an one, I must
either speak false or true in my answer.
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: Likewise I will prove this that you said
the gospel in the letter and words holds forth nothing but a covenant of
works and that all that do not hold as you do are in a covenant of
works.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: I deny this for if I should so say I should
speak against my own judgment....
Mr. Hugh Peters: That
which concerns us to speak unto, as yet we are sparing in, unless the
court command us to speak, then we shall answer to Mrs. Hutchinson
notwithstanding our brethren are very unwilling to answer.
(The Governor says to do so. Six ministers then testify to the
particular charges and that she was "not only difficult in her
opinions, but also of an intemperate spirit")
Mr. Hugh Peters:.... (I asked her) What difference do you conceive
to be between your teacher and us?... Briefly, she told me there was a
wide and broad difference.... He preaches the covenant of grace and you
the covenant of works, and that you are not able ministers of the New
Testament and know no more than the apostles did before the resurrection
of Christ. I did then put it to her, What do you conceive of such a
brother? She answered he had not the seal of the spirit.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: If our pastor would shew his writings you
should see what I said, and that many things are not so as is reported.
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