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Mr. Wilson: ...what is
written [here now] I will avouch Hutchinson
Mr. Weld: (agrees that Peters related Hutchinson's words accurately)
Mr. Phillips: (agrees that Peters related Hutchinson's words
accurately and added) Then I asked her of myself (being she spake rashly
of them all) because she never heard me at all. She likewise said that
we were not able ministers of the New Testament and her reason was
because we were not sealed.
Mr. Simmes: Agrees that Peters related Hutchinson's words accurately
Mr. Shephard: Also to Same.
Mr. Eliot: (agrees that Peters related Hutchinson's words
accurately)
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: I called these witnesses and you deny
them. You see they have proved this and you deny this, but it is clear.
You say they preached a covenant of works and that they were not able
ministers of the New Testament; now there are two other things that you
did affirm which were that the scriptures in the letter of them held
forth nothing but a covenant of works and likewise that those that were
under a covenant of works cannot be saved.
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: Prove that I said so.
Gov. John Winthrop: Did you say so?
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: No, Sir, it is your conclusion.
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: What do I do charging of you if you deny
what is so fully proved?
Gov. John Winthrop: Here are six undeniable ministers who say it
is true and yet you deny that you did say that they preach a covenant of
works and that they were not able ministers of the gospel, and it
appears plainly that you have spoken it, and whereas you say that it was
drawn from you in a way of friendship, you did profess then that it was
out of conscience that you spake....
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson: ...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.
Dep. Gov. Thomas Dudley: There have been six witnesses to prove
this and yet you deny it. (and then he mentions a seventh, Mr. Nathaniel
Ward)
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