Anne Hutchinson Quotes
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
"The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown." The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, edited by David D. Hall, 2nd ed., Duke University Press, 1990, p. 338.
This proverb is often attributed to The Prophet and hence has special meaning.
Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.