A42456:16
An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth…
An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth Mr. Wotton, besides his former foul aspersions of heresy and blasphemy, with Arianism, Mr. Gataker with Socinianism, Dr. Gouge and Mr. Downham with a false attestation, Dr. Baylie and Mr. Stock with self-condemnation, all the eight ministers employed in the business between himself and Mr. Wotton with partiality and unjust judgement : upon occasion of a relation concerning that business / written by the said Thomas Gataker and by him now again avowed, wherein the said M. Walkers vindication is in many things showed to be an untrue relation.An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth Mr. Wotton, besides his former foul aspersions of heresie and blasphemy, with Arianism, Mr. Gataker with Socinianism, Dr. Gouge and Mr. Downham with a fase attestation, Dr. Baylie and Mr. Stock with self-condemnation, all the eight ministers employed in the busines between himself and Mr. Wotton with partiality and unjust judgement : upon occasion of a relation concerning that busines / written by the said Thomas Gataker and by him now again avowed, wherein the said M. Walkers vindication is in many things shewed to be an untrue relation.
London: printed by E.G. for F. Clifton, 1642
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Secondly, as concerning survivorship, I have ever held it, and so still shall, having kvotes therein with me, I am sure, not a few, until M. Walker shall be able to convince me of error in it; that it is a worse ⟨p. 4⟩matter to traduce the dead, then the living. Since that the one may, the other cannot now make apology for himself. Besides that it is generally held an argument of lno ingenuous disposition, to insult over, or deale• igorously with the deceased. And it may well be questioned whether an injury done to a Saint in Heaven, have not the greater guilt, in regard o• his present estate. Sure I am, that against those of the Romish party, mour Writers use it as an argument, and nthe Apostle may well seem to add strength thereunto, that it is a greater wrong to offer any indignity to Christs body now glorified in Heaven, then it had been to do the like unto him then, when in the state of humiliation he conversed with men here on earth. Nor see I ought, why it may not hold as well in the other limbs, as in the head; that the greater sin it is to offer any wrong or contumely to them, the more highly they are now honoured and advanced by God. And what greater wrong or contumely can be done to them, then to blast their reputations, to charge them with inexpiable crimes, to damn them to Hell, that now reign with God in Heaven? So osacred hath the condition of the deceased been deemed, that it hath been accounted a ⟨p. 5⟩point of psacrilege, to disturb their remains, or to meddle with the monuments wherein their corps lie enclosed. But the godly deceased,