It was the largest church in Boston. As Boston was the largest and most powerful town in New England with commerce and trade. The church congregation growing from eighty to One hundred and twenty members during the first four months of Cotton’s presence there in Boston. The sudden success was formed Cotton’s different views on religion. Which brought people from all over to hear him speak. This unorthodox way of doing things kept Anne’s weekly meetings and the unorthodox messages were spreading out of the eyes of the lead minsters. More accurate it could be said that the leaders like Winthrop really were focusing on Cotton, and Anne was just small time and non-threating …show more content…
Anne started to offer her own religious views and stressed that only” an intuition of the Spirit”. (Rugg) Her views started to diverge from the views of the colony minsters, and soon the governor of the colony Governor Vane was even in the meetings. As one can imagine her views did not go along with the views of the sinister leader of the colony. The colony ministers found out about the meetings. They branded it as unauthorized meetings, and that it may confuse the faithful. When asked to stop the meetings Anne responded with her own verse form Titus “the elder women should instruct the younger”.