A42456:31
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.
Where first, I wonder how the matter against M. Wotton cometh so much to be aba•ed, that from so many pretended heretical and blasphemous errors, whereof seven horrible heads at least were represented in the Parallel, it should be brought down now to one single error, to one heresy. M. Walkers heart here, it may be, did misgive him; suspecting that some of them might be generally by all votes acquired of heresy at least, if not of error. And he thought it therefore the wisest and wariest course to pitch upon some one; and yet not to tell us, which that one […] meant, was, that so he might be free to ⟨p. 11⟩fasten where he should think fittest, if either his proofs concerning any of the other should fail; or those, whom he calleth in for Advocates in his own behalf, and for witnesses to give evidence against M. Wotton, as condemning his opinions for heretical and blasphemous, should be found voting in some of them rather for him then against him.
Where first, I wonder how the matter against M. Wotton cometh so much to be aba•ed, that from so many pretended hereticall and blasphemous errours, whereof seven horrible heads at least were represented in the Parallel, it should be brought down now to one single errour, to one heresie. M. Walkers heart here, it may be, did misgive him; suspecting that some of them might be generally by all votes acquired of heresie at least, if not of errour. And he thought it therefore the wisest and wariest course to pitch upon some one; and yet not to tell us, which that one 〈…〉 •eant, was, that so he might be free to ⟨p. 11⟩fasten where he should thinke fittest, if either his proofes concerning any of the other should faile; or those, whom he calleth in for Advocates in his own behalfe, and for witnesses to give evidence against M. Wotton, as condemning his opinions for hereticall and blasphemous, should be found voting in some of them rather for him then against him.