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

Walker strikes in to help Socinus at a dead lift, and telleth us, contrary to his Text, sure without any warrant at all from it, ^mthat by obtaining forgiveness of sins, Socinus means getting the sense and assurance of forgiveness. a gloss well-beseeming him, that professeth such a detestation of the very least sent or shadow of Socinianism in others.

Walker strikes in to help Socinus at a dead lift, and telleth us, contrary to his Text, sure without any warrant at all from it, ^mthat by obtaining forgivenes of sins, Socinus means getting the sense and assurance of forgivenesse. a glosse wel-beseeming him, that professeth such a detestation of the very least sent or shadow of Socinianism in others.

1. mPag. 28.

The third point is, ⁿthat faith is a believing of that which Christ taught, and an assurance of obtaining that he promised upon our repentance and obedience. Which whether it be a just definition of justifying Faith; (for of that here the question is) or do fitly express the office of it in the work of justification, I leave to be discussed by others. M. Wotton relateth it, ^oto show how that in laying down the nature and office of justifying faith, he goes an other way then Socinus doth; and further then Socinus either doth, or can, holding his own grounds, follow him. who indeed thus defines Faith, to bring all home to Repentance and obed•enee, as in the former point; and to exclude Christs merit, and ought done or endured by him, as satisfactory for mans sin: as appears plainly by the whole context of his discourse in that Chapter, out of which these words are alleged. And I would demand of M. Walker, how he can free himself from Socinianism, when he maintains such points as these for sound and orthodox in Socinus: and what censure himself would have past upon an other, that should have thus blanched and varnished over such