A42456:195
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But here M. Walker much mistakes his mark, and shoots at random. For my Relation, which he pretends to refute, is not M. Gatakers Defence of M. Wotton, but M. Wottons Defence of himself: nor did either I, or any of those that were joined with me in the meeting related, undertake to defend M. Wotton as one free from all error, but delivered only, what we thought of M. Wottons own Defence of himself in regard of ought that M. Walker had laid to his charge. Nor do I therefore conceive, either that I stand upon me credit engaged to answer to all M: Walkers Interrogatories; or that M. Walker hath any due power thus to bind me over to silence and shame, upon my refusal so to do.
But here M. Walker much mistakes his marke, and shoots at randome. For my Relation, which he pretends to refute, is not M. Gatakers Defence of M. Wotton, but M. Wottons Defence of himself: nor did either I, or any of those that were joyned with me in the meeting related, undertake to defend M. Wotton as one free from all error, but delivered onely, what we thought of M. Wottons own Defence of himself in regard of ought that M. Walker had laid to his charge. Nor doe I therefore conceive, either that I stand upon me credit engaged to answer to all M: Walkers Interrogatories; or that M. VValker hath any du power thus to bind me over to silence and shame, upon my refusal so to do.
Yet let us see what they are.
The first is, bWhether it be truth and honesty to say, that call the eight Ministers with unanimous consent generally resolved and pronounced, that there appeared not to them either heresy or blasphemy in ought that M. Wotton was by M. Walker convinced to have delivered or maintained: when their subscription shows that they meddled only with his Expositions, and not with his heretical