A42456:23
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, I demand of M. Walker, where I have thus branded him. True it is, that I do indeed directly and expressly charge him with gunequal dealing; and hwant of candour in his carriage toward M. Wotton. And this he returns never a word unto, nor will be able ever to wash off. With those other defaults here mentioned I do not my self charge him. I affirm only that such carriage as I there describe, ihath been ever generally held a breach of piety and charity, and may well be deemed to argue no small defect of humanity, not to add of common honesty. And what I therein say, no ⟨p. 9⟩man, I suppose, will deny; not M. Walker himself. But whether M. Walker in his late dealing with M. Wotton have so carried himself, as to contract such guilt, or no, I pronounce not; *I say nothing, but leave it to be deemed and determined by others, upon that which afterward is related, under the hands, either of M Walker himself, or of those whom he himself chose, and by his own choice of them made competent Judges in his cause.
Secondly, I demand of M. Walker, where I have thus branded him. True it is, that I do indeed directly and expresly charge him with gunequall dealing; and hwant of candor in his carriage toward M. Wotton. And this he returnes never a word unto, nor will be able ever to wash off. With those other defaults here mentioned I doe not my selfe charge him. I affirm only that such carriage as I there describe, ihath been ever generally held a breach of piety and charity, and may well be deemed to argue no small defect of humanity, not to adde of common honesty. And what I therein say, no ⟨p. 9⟩