I will here use no Arguments for Liberty of Debate, which Subject has already been copiously handled, and wants nothing, that I can add unto it. But before I enter into the Body of the _Bishop_'s Book, and upon a profess'd Defence of my Discourses against him, let us consider the manifest Lies, Prevarications, and wicked Insinuations in his _Dedication_, whereby he would move the Secular Powers to a severe Punishment of me. I will pass by the _Motto_ of his Book, _viz. But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a Kiss_; Whereby he would signify and intimate, not to _Scholars_ (for they have more Wit than to think the worse of me for his Abuse of Scripture) but to the ignorant Multitude, that I am another _Judas_, a Traitor and Rebel to _Jesus_. Commonly _Mottos_ of Books are suited to their Authors, and the Design of them; whether the _Bishop_ will be willing to take this _Motto_ to himself or not, I will upon another Occasion give it a pleasant and pertinent Turn upon him. At present I shall only say, what the Learned will observe, that _this_ is of a wicked and malicious Use and Intention, of no less, than to create in the Minds of the People an Hatred and Detestation of me; of no other, than by dressing me up, as it were, in a Bear's Skin, to excite the Ecclesiastical and merciless Mob to worry and destroy me. Such has been the roguish Artifice of priests of all Ages, to represent their Adversaries, whom they would destroy, under odious and borrow'd Names, that their Persecutions of them might be thought the less cruel. But passing this by for the present, the