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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

fraudulent dealing protested that he would never hearken to his opinion and doctrine in these points any more and that he was much comforted and confirmed by that acknowledgment of the truth which I at length did wring from Mr. Wottons owne mouth The second day after this I went to Cambridge returned not to London till three months after in which time what lyes were dispersed in London concerning my apostasie to Mr. Wottons errors my letter to him sheweth The next yeare after I came to be setled in my pastorall charge and because I found some in my parish much inclining to Mr. Wottons opinion out of respect to his person more then any knowledge being not able to give any reason for it at all I spent many Sabbaths in preaching the doctrine of justification out of the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans and in discovering and confuting all errors contrarie to the truth professed in the reformed Churches and amongst the rest the errors of Socinus What affronts were offered me in the Church what clamours raised against me in the citie my letter to Mr. Wotton will tell you in part I could rehearse many passages which would move laughter and discover the absurditie and ridiculous folly of divers people who were factiously addicted to admire all things in Mr. Wotton good or bad I will Instance in one example onely It was this I was requested to preach at Black-friers on a Wednesday in the absence of Mr. Gouge some weekes after I had finished my text concerning Justification In that assemblie there were many ancient professors of Religion who knew me not by face and who were so taken with my Sermon that they were verie inquisitive to know my name and hearing that I was Pastor of Saint John Evangelists and my name Walker they were so possessed with an evill opinion of me by the slaunders and railings of Mr. Wotton and his disciples that they cryed Hang him he will be hanged before he come to preach such a godly Sermon as this is we will never beleeve that this is that Walker which hath preached against that man of God Mr. Wotton and belyed him in the pulpit My Clerke being well acquainted with them and overhearing did affirme to them that I was the man and told them that they themselves might easily come to be hanged in hell if they did not repent of their wicked railings against me so unjustly By this you see what wrong I suffered and what hu●t shamelesse slaunders of wicked hypocrites may doe to the good name of the most innocent even among them that are religious These such injuries and reproaches heaped on me together with a ridiculous booke written against me by one Spencer a disciple of Mr. Wotton forced me to write a challenge in my letter to Mr. Wotton by which I at length brought him to the conference which is the subject of M. Gatakers invective against me This letter because it containes a just complaint and a rehearsall of the ill behaviour of M. Wotton and his Disciples towards me I have thought good here to insert that the world may see the intolerable provocations wherewith I was provoked to call M. Wotton to account before some brethren in the Ministery equally chosen by both parties Anthonio Wottono Georgius Walker resipiscentiam sanam mentem precatur SIr my hearty desire and prayer to God for you is that you may repent and be saved And as I doe and by the grace of God will continually pray to God for you so long as there is any hope So now also I will not spare to exhort you and in the bowels of Jesus Christ beseech you yea if neede require by thunderings and threatnings of Gods heavy judgements proceed and goe forward to puty ou in feare that if it be possible you may repent and recant and that the errors and thoughts of your heart may be forgiven for I perceive that you are in the gall of bitternesse and in the bonds of iniquitie You will perhaps say A sharpe and a fierce onset who can beare it To remove and prevent all prejudice I answer if it be sharpe it is as it ought to be for a deepe and festered wound hath neede of a sharpe corrasive but such I am perswaded in my soule that yours is and upon my conscience and before God I speake it whom I know to be the searcher of all hearts Wherefore though an heart settled in error and over-runne with perverse affection cannot brooke any sharpe reproofe but will hate the reproover according to that saying of the wise man Reproove a scorner and he will hate thee yet I will against hope beleeve under hope though my experience would perswade me the contrarie and will hope better things of you yea I will thus say to my heart Feare not neither be affraid of his countenance though it be as hard as brasse for if he be ordained to life and be within the compasse of Gods election though he be troubled and frett at the first yet spare not to rebuke for by this meanes thou shalt find more favour in the end I am not ignorant that by my former both writing and preaching against your errors and by my fervency and vehemency of words I have troubled and vexed you neither would I have you thinke that I have thus dealt with you upon any distempered affection or such like infirmity I professe ingenuously that I have done it upon good deliberation and of set purpose because I have judged doe yet still deeme that course to be the best for divers reasons First because I knew that the errors and opinions which you maintaine and wherewith you have infected divers are of all that ever were sowne by the enemie of God and men among Christian people the most pe●●ilent and dangerous being nothing else but the heresies of Serve●us and Socinus those most damnable and cursed heretickes the greatest monsters that ever were borne within the borders of Christs Church as I can plainly shew by your owne writings and theirs compared together and would have already shewed if you had not refused to joyne with me in a Christian conference before eight learned and godly Ministers Now being perswaded yea knowing that your opinions are so dangerous pe●nicious do you not thinke that I am bound before God to lay them open and to inveigh against them after the manner of Gods Prophets whose fashion hath ever beene to brand lesse sinnes then these and lesse dangerous errors with the name of abomination blasphemy sorcery witch-craft and such like The second reason of my fervency is godly jealousie because I see that you labour by all meanes to draw mens hearts from the love of the truth of my God generally professed unto your errours and that many who are grounded in knowledge of good things are so overcome with a conceit of you and affection to your person that rather then they will forsake you

Wotton had made a larger Exposition and fully purged himselfe from Socinianisme By which it appeared that they durst not openly justifie their subscription nor suffer it to come into my hands And that it was a thing with much importunity wrung from them which the better part of them would never have yeelded unto but upon promise of a better and larger exposition and in hope to draw Mr. Wotton wholly from his errors some of which he had allready contradicted and acknowledged to be hereticall and blasphemous to wit his denying of Christs Righteousnesse imputed for any use or end whatsoever Dr. Bayly the first of the Subscribers had upon the first reading of those speeches of Mr. Wotton which I shewed out of his owne writings and did parallell them with Socinus condemned Mr. Wotton for an heretike and his errors for blasphemie Mr. Downham heard his censure uttered at Mr. Wetwoods table and by silence assented to it Mr. Randall did argue verie hotly against Mr. Wottons opinions that same day that they subscribed and told him before as all that he had protested against them often in private and had disswaded him from them and that he for his part abhorred them Dr. Gouge hath publikely confuted them and in the pulpit condemned them under the name of Socianisme Mr. Stocke did ever abhorre them as he often told me in private And one time I by a prettie Stratageme brought him before other witnesse to condemne them for heresie and blasphemie Mr. Wetwood mine host in whose house I then lodged having by much importunity obtained of Dr. Bayly the sight of Mr. Wottons expositions subscribed as you heard before and committed to his custodie did lend them to me for the space of two houres till I had copied out both them and the subscription word for word with the mens names which copie I have yet to shew And one Sunday at night being invited to supper by Mr. Thomas Goodyeare my parishoner I brought it with me to shew it to Mr. Goodyeare who was verie desirous to see and read it Mr. Stocke and his wife being at the same time invited came in while we were reading it together And seeing me 〈…〉 in my hand asked what it was I answered that it was a paper of new and strange opinions which when he desired to heare I did read to him that passage in Mr. Wottons Expositions where he saith This I say that in this proposition Faith is counted for Righteousnes the word Faith is to be taken properly not tropically and I asked him what he thought of it He not knowing that it was Mr. Wottons Exposition out of which I read it did answer that it was Popery or worse I asked him whether he did not thinke it to be the heresie and blasphemy of Socinus he answered yes verily I asked him then what hee thought of certaine learned Divines who had subscribed to this and other such speeches that they were neither heresie nor blasphemy He said he thought none but mad men would doe it and asked who they were I presently read the subscription and among the rest his owne name and withall shewed him the copy Mr. Goodyeare laughed heartily and said to Mr. Stocke O Master our Parson is too cunning for you I never saw any man so finely taken in a snare as hee hath taken you in your owne snare I have ever told you that in this controversie you were too partiall for your old friend and familiar Mr. Wotton Mr. Stocke could plead nothing but this That Mr. Wotton had promised them to silence himselfe and his disciples in these points and to write a large declaration whereby he would purge himselfe fully from Socinianisme In hope whereof they did gratifie him with this subscription for the suppressing of clamours till he had further cleared himselfe But Mr. Wotton had broken his promise and boasted of that which made nothing for him in the maine cause but onely upon the by and had requited their favour towards him with disgrace to them and danger to himselfe and that it had beene better he had never beene borne then to trouble the Church of God with his false opinions By this you see how dangerous a thing it is even for godly men to be judges in a cause of controversie betweene a familiar friend as Mr. Wotton was to these men and a stranger as I at that time was to the most of them As for the other three to wit Mr. Balmeford Mr. Gataker and Mr. Hickes they were Mr. Wottons advocates rather then equall Judges Mr. Balmeford was Mr. Wottons silenced brother Mr. Hickes was Mr. Wottons disciple one who would jurare in verba Magistri Mr. Gataker did more angrily and peevishly speake against me and snarle at me then my adversary Mr. Wotton himselfe so that I was forced to challenge him as well as Mr. Wotton and to offer to dispute against them both What Mr. Wottons intent was in begging such a beggerly subscription and Mr. Gatakers in procuring it from the rest the event hath shewed For Mr. Wotton and his disciples did presently report through London that I could prove nothing against him nor bring any thing out of his bookes or writings to convince him of Socinianisme and that the eight learned Ministers had justified him and condemned me for a false accuser And upon this he grew more bold and wrote certaine Essaies concerning Justification a copy whereof I have to shew wherein he denies the true reall and spirituall union of the faithfull with Christ and Chrits meriting of justification and salvation for them he affirmes that when they are said to be one with Christ the speech is Metaphoricall and that there is no mention of Christs merits in all the Scripture By which his violent breaking out and going on from evill to worse I was forced to write my Antithesis Wottonismi Christianismi wherein I discovered more of his errors and his factious and Schismaticall behaviour This I presented to the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who committed it to Doctor Nidd● his Chaplaine who being himselfe a favourer of Arminians neglected to make report of it to his Lord And indeed I never called upon him because Mr. Wotton having intelligence of it silenced himselfe and all his disciples being admonished by his friends of the danger in which he was unlesse hee and they did forbeare to justifie and maintaine his errors and further to provoke me by their false reports and calumnies Thus was the fire quenched and no man opened his mouth to defend Mr. Wottons opinions though I with many others did often as occasion was offered by the Scriptures which we expounded confute and condemne them In the meane time Mr. Wotton wrote his booke De Reconciliatione in Latine wherein he seemed to recant and to contradict divers of his former writings but yet he vented so much poyson in it that when it was sent over to Leiden to be Printed the Professors there rejected it