Threat of Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson went against the assumptions of what women should do in her time. She held meetings in her home giving her views of her extremist Puritan beliefs, which many were against. Anne Hutchinson was the same type of threat to the Massachusetts Bay colony just like any other antinomian, except she was much more influential, thus more dangerous than many other individual previous antinomians. Deputy Governor testimony accused Hutchinson of being an antinomian. He stated, "...Mrs. Hutchinson hat so forestalled the minds of many by their resort to her meeting that now she hath a potent party in the country. Now if all these things have endangered us as from that foundation and if she particular hath disparaged all our ministers in the land that they have preached a covenant of works, and only Mr. Cotton a covenant of grave, why this is n
He still tried to defend her, by saying that she never said that the other ministers preach the covenant of works. Several ministers stated that Hutchinson had come and accused all of them, except John Cotton, of preaching covenant of works, which supports what Deputy Governor claimed. He stated that she claimed that the ministers, except Cotton, were not preaching covenant of grace. "How the comparison sprang I am ignorant, but sorry I was that any comparison should be between me and my brethren and uncomfortable it was. Anne Hutchinson was an see as an antinomian by both the Puritan Church and government, which are tied closely together, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, thus seen as a threat that needed to be dealt with, and was. Having been accused of being an antinomian, she was trying to overthrow the power of the ministers, thus trying to overthrow the government as well, which is a threat the community in that time and place. Her words did make him feel uncomfortable in front of the other ministers, but also he received it as a compliment. And I must say that I did not find her saying they were under a covenant of works, not that she said they did preach a covenant of works. She would have needed more than a miracle to win that case. Although he tried to defend Hutchinson, because of how she saw him as the only good minister among those she was talking to.
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