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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67141	A trve relation of the chiefe passages betweene Mr. Anthony Wotton, and Mr. George Walker, in the yeare of our lord 1611, and in the yeares next following untill 1615 written by George Walker ... ; for the vindicating of himselfe from some imputations laid on him by Mr. Thomas Gataker, in his defence of Mr. Wotton.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1642 (1642)	Wing W367; ESTC R22429	24,717	39

A TRVE RELATION Of the chiefe passages betweene Mr. Anthony Wotton and Mr. George Walker in the yeare of our Lord 1611. and in the yeares next following untill 1615. Written by George Walker out of his owne papers which he hath yet to shew for the vindicating of himselfe from some imputations laid on him by Mr. Thomas Gataker in his defence of Mr. Wotton Printed at London for William Branch and are to be sold in St. Olaves Churchyard upon Breadstreete hill 1642. A true relation of the chiefe passages betweene Mr. Anthony Wotton and Mr. George Walker in the yeare of our Lord 1611. THe foule brand which Mr. Gataker hath laboured to set upon mee in his preface to wit breach of piety and charity and defect of humanity and common honesty is so scandalous to the person and calling of a living Minister and Pastor in Gods Church that Mr. Gataker in going about to set it on me doth manifestly appeare to have printed it deepely in his owne forehead The words of truth spoken of a dead man in the defence of a divine and saving truth and in confuting of a dangerous error can bee no such breach of piety or charity as the unjust scandall and slander laid on a man living and labouring in the worke of the Lord For this tends to bring his Ministry and the word of God by him preached into contempt to disgrace his person most uncharitably and to adde affliction to him who hath suffered persecution and bonds for the truths sake by wounding him deepely in his reputation which is contrary to humanity and common honesty Mr. Wotton in his papers which he dispersed in this Citie and which he acknowledged to be his owne when I brought them to his face before Mr. Gataker and eight other grave Ministers doth deny the imputation of the whole obedience of Christ to the Law of God both active and passive both joyntly and severally He affirmes that there is no end or use whatsoever of the imputation of Christ his righteousnesse for justification He renounceth the law in whole and part performed by our selves or any other in our stead for our justification In stead of mans owne workes of righteousnesse performed to the law in his owne person which was the condition of justification and life in the first covenant and instead of Christs fulfillng of the law for us which is the condition of justification and life to beleevers in the covenant of grace he sets up faith even the Act of beleeving for righteousnesse affirmes that it is said to be imputed in a proper sense without a trope and serves for all purposes in our justification under the Gospell as perfect righteousnesse of workes performed to the whole law did for mans justification in the first covenant Hee denieth the punishment of our sinnes in Christ and the satisfaction wch in him our head surety was made to Gods justice for purchase of our pardon For saith he I see no place left for pardon if we in Christ be said to have satisfied Gods justice to have suffered in him the punishments due to sin for pardon and punishment are contrary Thus he overthrowes our redemption by Christ and that Christ is our ransome as Socinus did though hee hold the words of Scripture with Socinus in an improper sense to wit Redeemer Ransome Propitiation and the rest For no man can dreame of any other way by which Christ is said in Scripture to redeeme us and to be a ransome for sinne but onely by being made under the Law and a perfect fulfiller of it in our stead If faith serves for all purposes to justification as a mans perfect righteousnesse of workes performed to the full in his owne person would have done in the first Covenant then it serves to this purpose to be our formall righteousnesse yea our owne inherent righteousnesse by which we are justified Which is most contrary to the truth of the Gospell and contradictory to his owne words in other places These and such like speeches I condemned for Socinian Heresie and blasphemy as Beza Paraeus and Lubertus had done before me and for this Mr. Gataker did deride me when I gave in my charge against Mr. Wotton 27. yeares agoe and now blames it in mee as falshood and dishonesty I desire no better defence of my innocency but Mr. Wottons owne confession in his Expositions which Mr. Gataker hath published for his defence For in his answer to the first proposition he confesseth that the denying of the imputation of Christs righteousnesse as a meritorious cause of justification is both hereticall and blasphemous And this he himselfe doth in the words which are cited out of his owne papers to prove him guilty of the first error as you may see in the 12 page of Mr. Gatakers defence where they are thus laid downe and translated out of Mr. Wottons Latin Theses No necessary use or end can he assigned of the imputation of the obedience of Christ to the justification of a sinner And in an English Manuscript of his which I also shewed and he acknowledged for his owne he useth more peremptory words saying I dare not admit of Christs righteousnesse imputed to any end whatsoever I find no testimony or proofe of it in any part of Gods word no signification in any Sacrament of the Gospell no necessary use or end thereof Which words if we take them as Mr. Gataker hath related them prove him to be an Heretike and blasphemer by his owne confession Unlesse Mr. Gataker can perswade us that to be imputed as a meritorious cause is to be imputed for no end or use whatsoever But before I proceede to my narration I will first lay downe the occasion by which I have provoked Mr. Gataker to proclame so bitterly against me and to brand me with breach of piety charity and defect of humanity and common honesty In my discovery and confutation of Socinianisme I perceived that Mr. Goodwins disciples did admire and extoll him as a deepe searcher out and discoverer of divine truth which none could ever find out before him To convince them of folly and ignorance I rehearsed the names of severall persons who had published and taught the same things before Mr. Goodwin and for them and other errors and Heresies which are therein necessarily included have beene condemned in former ages as Peter Abailard Servetus Socinus Arminius and Mr. Wotton out of whose booke De Reconciliatione Mr. Goodwin stole his opinions My words are these The fifth perverse publisher of this heresie who first openly professed it in England and in manuscript Pamphlets and printed bookes dispersed it in London and from thence into severall places of the Countrie about twenty eight yeares agoe was Anthony Wotton I would gladly know what just offence can be taken at any of these words That Mr. Wotton was the perverse publisher of this heresie and the first that openly professed it in England is a manifest truth