The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams
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_Mrs. H._ I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.... _Dep. Gov._ I desire Mr. Cotton to tell us whether you do approve of Mrs. Hutchinson's revelations as she hath laid them down. _Mr. C._ I know not whether I do understand her, but this I say, if she doth expect a deliverance in a way of providence, then I cannot deny it. _Gov._ ... I see a marvellous providence of God to bring things to this pass.... God by a providence hath answered our desires, and made her to lay open herself and the ground of all these disturbances to be by revelations. . . . _Court._ We all consent with you. _Gov._ Ey, it is the most desperate enthusiasm in the world.... _Mr. Endicott._ I speak in reference to Mr. Cotton.... Whether do you witness for her or against her. _Mr. C._ This is that I said, sir, and my answer is plain, that if she doth look for deliverance from the hand of God by his providence, and the revelation be ... according to a word [of Scripture] that I cannot deny. _Mr. Endicott._ You give me satisfaction. _Dep. Gov._ No, no, he gives me none at all.... |
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