A42456:87
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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2. For the Doctors speech, (howsoever his judgement, I suppose, so rashly given especially, will bear no great weight with those that throughly knew the man and his manner) if it were such as M. Walker saith; and were delivered, as he implieth, upon the very first hearing of M. Walkers charge only read, before he had heard M. Wottons defence: it may seem, he was of that mind, that othe Stoic sometime was, who held it a ridiculous thing to hear any defendant or second party: tho most wise men have ever been pof a contrary judgement; requiring ⟨p. 30⟩qthe one ear at least to be reserved for the defendant; and condemning those of runjust and unequal dealing, albeit the sentence they pass be agreeable to right, that condemn a man unheard.
2. For the Doctors speech, (howsoever his judgement, I suppose, so rashly given especially, will beare no great weight with those that throughly knew the man and his manner) if it were such as M. Walker saith; and were delivered, as he implieth, upon the very first hearing of M. Walkers charge onely read, before he had heard M. Wottons defence: it may seem, he was of that mind, that othe Stoike sometime was, who held it a ridiculous thing to heare any defendant or second party: tho most wise men have ever been pof a contrary judgement; requiring ⟨p. 30⟩qthe one eare at least to be reserved for the defendant; and condemning those of runjust and unequall dealing, albeit the sentence they passe be agreeable to right, that condemne a man unheard.