And as to the sermon of which he was accused, several witnesses who heard it, and some who wrote it in shorthand, deposed that he had used no such expressions as those which were imputed to him.

He offered his own notes as a further proof.

The women could not show by any circumstance or witness that they were at his meeting.

And the expressions to which they deposed were so gross, that no man in his senses could be supposed to employ them before a mixed audience.

It was also urged, that it appeared next to impossible for three women to remember so long a period upon one single hearing, and to remember it so exactly, as to agree to a tittle in their depositions with regard to it.