Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

Secondly. And as he feigneth me to speak of many reverend persons that I never meant, so he feigneth me to take them actually for Impostors, because I take the distinction for a cheat. ⟨p. 48⟩But is it not possible that it may cheat or deceive themselves, though some never utter it to the deceiving of others? Much less as impostors with an intention to deceive: I would you had never learned this art of confutation.

Thirdly, But I perceive how you would take it if I had applied this to your self. And what is this, but plainly to forbid me to dispute with you? (which I had never done on other terms then for Defence.) Can I not tell you that your Argument is a Fallacy, but you will thus exclaim of me, as making you an Impostor? why then if you be so tender, who may deal with you? On the same grounds, if I say that your Major or Minor is false▪ you may tell the world I make you a Liar; and I must either say as you say, or let you alone; lest by contradiction I make you a Liar or an Impostor. Prove that ever I blamed Mr. Crandon for such a passage as this, if you can. It is not [this word] thus applied, but other words that I excepted against; I will not yet believe it all one to call an Argument or distinction a cheat or fallacy, and to call the person a Cheater and Deceiver, and that designedly, as purposely dissembling his Religion.

Thirdly, But I perceive how you would take it if I had applyed this to your self. And what is this, but plainly to forbid me to dispute with you? (which I had never done on other terms then for Defence.) Can I not tell you that your Argument is a Fallacy, but you will thus exclaim of me, as making you an Impostor? why then if you be so tender, who may deal with you? On the same grounds, if I say that your Major or Minor is false▪ you may tell the world I make you a Lyar; and I must either say as you say, or let you alone; lest by contradiction I make you a Lyar or an Impostor. Prove that ever I blamed Mr. Crandon for such a passage as this, if you can. It is not [this word] thus applyed, but other words that I excepted against; I will not yet believe it all one to call an Argument or distinction a cheat or fallacy, and to call the person a Cheater and Deceiver, and that designedly, as purposely dissembling his Religion.