_Mr. C._ I pray, sir, give me leave to express myself. In that sense that
she speaks I dare not bear witness against it.

_Mr. Nowell._ I think it is a devilish delusion.

_Gov._ Of all the revelations that ever I read of I never read the like
ground laid as is for this. The enthusiasts and Anabaptists had never the
like....

_Mr. Peters._ I can say the same ... and I think that is very disputable
which our brother Cotton hath spoken....

_Gov._ I am persuaded that the revelation she brings forth is delusion.

All the court but some two or three ministers cry out, We all believe it,
we all believe it....

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And then Coddington stood up before that angry meeting like the brave man
he was, and said, "I beseech you do not speak so to force things along,
for I do not for my own part see any equity in the court in all your
proceedings. Here is no law of God that she hath broken, nor any law of
the country that she hath broke, and therefore deserves no censure; and if
she say that the elders preach as the apostles did, why they preached a
covenant of grace and what wrong is that to them, ... therefore I pray
consider, what you do, for here is no law of God or man broken."

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