A42456:49
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.
As for that he relateth of M. Richardsons censure, both there, and uhereafter, be it true or no; I say only thus much to it: that if M. Richardson shall condemn all those for blasphemous heretics, who deny the imputation of Christs righteousness consisting in the perfect observation of the Law Moral unto justification; and hold justification to consist wholly in remission of sins: (which I conceive to be M. Wottons principal error, and wherein I dissent both from him and them) he shall together with M. Wotton exclude from life eternal Olevian, Piscator, Ursinus, Pareus, Scultetus, Altingius, Cameron, and many other Worthies, who were as famous and bright lights in the Church of God here, as ever M. Richardson was, while he lived; ⟨p. 19⟩and (if the Prophet xDaniel may be believed) do now shine as Stars in the Kingdom of heaven, and so shall do for ever and ever; whatsoever doom M. Richardson, or M. Walker shall pass on them. For my part I deem this their censure not unlike that other conceit, that I remember to have heard M. Walker sometime maintain, and is fathered likewise upon the same party, (concerning whom, I forbear to speak my mind, lest I undergo the lash of M. Walkers tongue) that, The fall of our first parents proceeded not from the mutability of their will: and that all that hold it to have thence proceeded, by so holding, make God the Author of sin. By which censure all the Divines in the World (for ought I know, M. Walker, and M. Richardson, if he at least so also held, only excepted) are condemned of extreme impiety; yea of Atheism, or worse, (if yM. Walkers manner of arguing by deduction may go for currant) since that zit is much at one, to hold God to be wicked, and to hold him no God at all.
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