It looks to me as if 1 and 2 are indeed describing rules of Junto debate, while 3 and 4 (despite the heading that appears in the linked document above the section from which they are taken) are rather describing Franklin’s conduct later in life, inspired by his experiences in the Junto.
[EDITED to add:] In the actual autobiography that heading does not appear; where Franklin says what he did “agreeably to the old laws of our Junto” I don’t think he is claiming that the practice he describes is itself required by those laws; the term “old” is interesting, but I think the Junto was still active at that time—Franklin says it was at about the same time as the establishment of the Philadelphia public library, which was ~1730, and elsewhere in the autobiography he implies the Junto’s continued operation in the late 1730s.
Even if we take that interpretation, I think 3 and 4 are useful operational expansions of 1 and 2. They’re concrete things you can do to implement them.
It looks to me as if 1 and 2 are indeed describing rules of Junto debate, while 3 and 4 (despite the heading that appears in the linked document above the section from which they are taken) are rather describing Franklin’s conduct later in life, inspired by his experiences in the Junto.
[EDITED to add:] In the actual autobiography that heading does not appear; where Franklin says what he did “agreeably to the old laws of our Junto” I don’t think he is claiming that the practice he describes is itself required by those laws; the term “old” is interesting, but I think the Junto was still active at that time—Franklin says it was at about the same time as the establishment of the Philadelphia public library, which was ~1730, and elsewhere in the autobiography he implies the Junto’s continued operation in the late 1730s.
Even if we take that interpretation, I think 3 and 4 are useful operational expansions of 1 and 2. They’re concrete things you can do to implement them.