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Anne Hutchinson And The Conviction Of The Holy Spirit

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Anne Hutchinson was a puritan that believed that the Holy Spirit was within her and that had the Holy Spirit within were not subject to the laws of man. Many believed that the conflicts she had with the clergy could lead to the destruction of the puritans religious experiments. As a woman challenging the clergy and other higher ups this was not something that women did in her times telling her "you have step out of your place"(Conlin,48) and that theses thing were not "fitting of you sex"(Conlin,48). They convicted her because the consider her a danger to the spiritual welfare of the people and banished her to Rhode

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