A42456:7
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.
Had M. Walker either dealt more fairly at first, with his Christian brother and fellow-Minister of Christ, M. A. Wotton; or upon second thoughts (a which are wont to be the wiser) better considered of what before he had unadvisedly attempted; he had therein peradventure in part at least, either saved or salved his own credit: sure I am, he had eased me of some labour, that I had little lust unto. He traduced M. Wotton in the Pulpit as a vile heretic, while he lived, what time he knew Master Wottons tongue, through the iniquity of the times, to be so btied up, that he could not in public plead his own cause. Long after his decease he reneweth his revilings of him, and brandeth him again for the like in print; when being hence translated, he cannot now either in public or in private personally appear for himself. A true relation of the carriage of the main matter in controversy between them, in a meeting of M. Walkers own procuring, wherein M. Wotton was acquitted, being hereupon published; he proceedeth, after his wonted guise, in violent and virulent manner, not only to charge him, as before, with heresy and blasphemy in the doctrine of justification, but (yet further to express his extreme malice and rancour against him) cwith the denial of the eternal Deity of Christ; how ⟨p. 2⟩soundly, yea or seemingly, for any show or shadow of reason, let any intelligent Reader judge. And over and besides that, (hoping thereby to help himself, where he sticketh fast in the mire) he sticketh not to dcast foul aspersions upon all those that had any hand in that hearing, not sparing them therein whom himself had made choice of.