Generally these conventicles produced very many bastards, and the excuse they (the ministers) made for that was, “where sin abounds the Grace of God super-abounds; there is no condemnation in those that are in Christ.” Sometimes this: ‘The lambs of God may sport together; to the pure all things are pure.” Nay, generally they are of opinion that a man is never a true saint till he have a fall like that of David with Bathsheba, The true character of the Presbyterian Pastors and People of Scotland. Reign of King Charles II--and since the Revolution. p. 12.