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"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
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"But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart."
"I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it."
"As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway."
"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business."
"If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?"
"How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?"
"One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth."
"Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth."
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"This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court."
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."
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