For if we be sure we are in the right
and do not hold the truth guiltily,
which becomes not,
if we ourselves condemn not our own
weak and frivolous teaching, and
the people for an untaught and irreligious
gadding rout, what can be more fair,
than when a man judicious, learned,
and of a conscience, for aught
we know as good as theirs as taught
us what we know, shall not privily
from house to house, which is more
dangerous, but openly by writing
publish to the world what his opinion
is, what his reasons, and wherefore
that which is not thought cannot be
sound. Christ urged it as wherewith
to justify himself that he preached
in public (Gosp.John 18:19-20), yet
writing is more public than preaching
and more easy in refutation, if
need be, there being so many whose
business and profession merely it is
to be the champions of truth, which
if they neglect, what can be imputed
but their sloth or inability?
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