A42456:78
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.
3. It is not true, that rM. Hicks and my self bare our selves at the meeting, towards M. Walker as an Adversary, or as Advocates for M. Wotton: Unless to require the ⟨p. 26⟩forbearance of railing and reviling terms, and endeavouring to have the business fairly and calmly carried, without Invectives and Declamations, which M. Walker, if let alone, would never have made an end of, may bear such an interpretation. And yet M. Hicks (a man whom to my knowledge I never saw before or since, nor know I how M. Walker knows to be sof M. Wottons mind in all points) spake least in the business of the most there present, being the youngest among us, and a man of very modest and moderate carriage. But somewhat must be fastened on a man least known; because of the better known it would not be so easily believed.
3. It is not true, that rM. Hicks and my selfe bare our selves at the meeting, towards M. Walker as an Adversary, or as Advocates for M. Wotton: Unlesse to require the ⟨p. 26⟩forbearance of railing and reviling terms, and endevouring to have the businesse fairely and calmly caried, without Invectives and Declamations, which M. Walker, if let alone, would never have made an end of, may beare such an interpretation. And yet M. Hicks (a man whom to my knowledge I never saw before or since, nor know I how M. Walker knows to be sof M. Wottons mind in all points) spake least in the businesse of the most there present, being the yongest among us, and a man of very modest and moderate cariage. But somewhat must be fastned on a man least known; because of the better known it would not be so easily beleeved.
- rVindic. p. 19.
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