ABSTRACT
Lucy Hutchinson is the first woman in England who writes a recognisably theological treatise and on the marriage of her daughter it is addressed to Barbara, and is in manuscript. In the Principles' she spends some time thinking and writing about what she calls a preparatory worke'; and the only extra marginal note in the whole treatise concerns a possible mistake about her original thoughts. However, in her manuscript treatise On the principles of the Christian religion, addressed to her daughter', she despite being a High Calvinist is not writing in defence of Calvin. She does allow the opponents to preparationism' a fair hearing; and includes their opinion, that faith is supernatural and does not need preparatory convictions, in her treatise; faith is the first act of life immediately wrought by the power of the spiritt without legall and preparatory convictions & humiliations'.
