An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth…

Of M. Walkers restraint for some time, I have heard. During which also I sometime visited him at his brothers house. And that he suffered for the truth, I hope also is true, though it be more then I know; because I know not for what he suffered. Of his bonds, I never heard till now. If he were ever in bonds, (God be thanked) he is now free. But however, he might do well to remember, that M. Wotton, upon occasion of a passage used in his prayer, when the settling of Church-matters with us was in agitation, (which as things now stand, I suppose would not be so heinously taken) that His Majesty who then was, might in that weighty business, not be swayed with prejudice of long or pretended antiquity, but proceed according to the rule and direction of Gods Word, had for some good space of time before been deprived of the exercise of his ministry, and of the means thence arising for the maintenance of him and his; his charge then depending upon him being greater, then I suppose M. Walkers either then was, when he so suffered as he saith, or now is. And that he lay still at that very same time under that heavy pressure, (which he was never wholly quit of to his dying day) when M. Walker pursued (I may well say, ^xpersecuted him) with those hideous imputations of teaching ^ydevilish heresy and ^zblasphemy, and ^athe most pestilent opinions that ever Satan sowed among Christians. Now whether ⟨p. 7⟩this his demeanour toward M. Wotton in such times, were to ^badd affliction unto affliction, or no, I leave to any man, not of ^cbrass bowels, and iron entrails, to determine. This am I sure of, that if M. Walkers troubles, past and overblown now, may aggravate ought here, the storm still continuing might much more aggravate there. But this is the common guise of humane weakness, that men are rather prone to tender ^d