And Anne Hutchinson replied, "Aye, verily."
"Then you say that you can commit no sin?"
"If my heart is right, I can not sin."
"Is your heart right?"
"I am trying to make it so."
"Then you can commit any act you wish?"
"Whatever I wish to do will be right, if my heart is right."
"But suppose, now—" and here these clergymen asked questions which no gentleman ever asks a lady.
These men had a fine faculty for misunderstanding, misinterpreting, and misrepresenting other people's thoughts.
John Cotton tried to pour oil on the troubled waters by explaining that the idea of a Covenant of Grace was general, and to make it specific was unjust and unreasonable. Then they turned on Cotton and said, "So, you are one of them?"