A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Fourthly, You add, Your pert Assertion so oft occurring in your Book, that there is neither reason, truth, nor honesty in my words, is but the overflowings of that former intemperate zeal; whereunto may be added, what in the last place you insist on to the same purpose, namely, that I charge you with fraud, ignorance, and wickedness, when in my own heart I find you most clear from any such blemish. I do not remember where any of those expressions are used by me; that they are no where used thus altogether, I know well enough, neither shall I make any enquiry after them. I shall therefore desire you only to produce the instances, whereunto any of the censures intimated are annexed, and if I do not prove evidently and plainly, that to be wanting in your discourse, which is charged so to be, I will make you a ⟨p. 19⟩public acknowledgement of the wrong I have done you. But if no more was by me expressed, than your words as used to your purpose did justly deserve, pray be pleased to take notice that it is lawful for any man to speak the truth: And for my part, [Greek or Hebrew], as he said in Lucian, I live in the Country, where they call a Spade a Spade. And if you can give any one instance, where I have charged you with any failure, where there is the least probability that I had in my heart other thoughts, concerning what you said, I will give up my whole interest in this cause unto you; Mala mens, malus animus. You have manifested your conscience to be no just measure of other mens, who reckon upon their giving an account of what they do or say: So that you have but little advanced your Charge, by these undue insinuations.

Fourthly, You adde, Your pert Assertion so oft occurring in your Book, that there is neither reason, truth, nor honesty in my words, is but the overflowings of that former intemperate zeal; whereunto may be added, what in the last place you insist on to the same purpose, namely, that I charge you with fraud, ignorance, and wickedness, when in my own heart I find you most clear from any such blemish. I do not remember where any of those expressions are used by me; that they are no where used thus altogether, I know well enough, neither shall I make any enquiry after them. I shall therefore desire you only to produce the instances, whereunto any of the censures intimated are annexed, and if I do not prove evidently and plainly, that to be wanting in your discourse, which is charged so to be, I will make you a ⟨p. 19⟩