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Fifthly, it is a means to make others to think we are guilty: There is no means whereby I would think ¹one were guilty of what he is reproached, as that, namely, a mighty inordinate passion at hearing of those things. If you hear a couple disputing, commonly he that wants arguments for his case, will fall into giving ill language, and passion, and therefore those men that have power over their passion in reasoning, do what they can to bring those they reason withal into passion, for then they have them at their will: And so those that are brought into passion, when they are reproached, gives a great suspicion of the weakness of their cause, and are thought to be guilty.

Fifthly, it is a means to make others to think we are guilty: There is no means whereby I would think ¹one were guilty of what he is reproached, as that, namely, a mighty inordinate passion at hearing of those things. If you hear a couple disputing, commonly he that wants arguments for his case, will fall into giving ill language, and passion, and therefore those men that have power over their passion in reasoning, do what they can to bring those they reason withal into passion, for then they have them at their will: And so those that are brought into passion, when they are reproached, gives a great suspition of the weakness of their cause, and are thought to be guilty.

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Fourthly, let us not carry our selves revengefully under our reproaches, not to desire the reproachers ¹might have an evil name in the same kind: It is ordinary for people that are reproached to do thus, but many though they dare not say so, yet secretly they would be willing that those that do reproach them, might have an evil name. But where have we those