words, which sound strangely in the mouth of a New England judge:-- * * * * * We have thought good to send for you ... that if you be in an erroneous way we may reduce you that so you may become a profitable member here among us, otherwise if you be obstinate ... that then the court may take such course that you may trouble us no further, therefore I would entreat you ... whether you do not justify Mr. Wheelwright’s sermon and the petition. _Mrs. H._ I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge. _Gov._ I have told you some already, and more I can tell you. _Mrs. H._ Name one, sir. _Gov._ Have I not named some already? _Mrs. H._ What have I said or done?... _Gov._ You have joined with them in the faction. _Mrs. H._ In what faction have I joined with them? _Gov._ In presenting the petition.... _Mrs. H._ But I had not my hand to the petition. _Gov._ You have counselled them. _Mrs. H._ Wherein? _Gov._ Why, in entertaining them. _Mrs. H._ What breach of law is that, sir? _Gov._ Why, dishonoring of parents.... _Mrs. H._ I may put honor upon them as the children of God and as they do honor the Lord. _Gov._ We do not mean to discourse with those of your sex but only this; you do adhere unto them, and do endeavor to set forward this faction, and so you do dishonor us. _Mrs. H._ I do acknowledge no such thing, neither do I think that I ever put any dishonor upon you. * * * * * And, on the whole, the chief justice broke down so hopelessly in his examination, that the deputy governor, or his senior associate upon the bench, thought it necessary to interfere. * * * * * _Dep. Gov._ I would go a little higher with Mrs. Hutchinson. Now ... if she in particular hath disparaged all our ministers in the land that they have preached a covenant of works, and only Mr. Cotton a covenant of grace, why this is not to be suffered... _Mrs. H._ I pray, sir, prove it, that I said they preached nothing but a covenant of works.... _Dep. Gov._ If they do not preach a covenant of grace, clearly, then, they preach a covenant of works. _Mrs. H._ No, sir, one may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. * * * * *