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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

as my parallell of him with Socinus published by Mr. Gataker now in print proveth most fully If he be offended because I call this errour an heresie though he and his fellow Subscribers to Mr. Wottons exposition out of their great love to Mr. Wottons person and upon his promise of reformation did thinke it not fit to call any thing in his exposition of his speeches by the name of heresie or blasphemie I answer first that his speeches which I cited in my parallell are manifestly blasphemous and hereticall by his owne confession and of them and his opinion in them published doe I speake and call it heresie Secondly though I rather assent to Beza Paraeus Lubertus and other most learned and orthodox Divines who condemne some things in Mr. Wottons expositions for heresie blasphemie rather then to Mr. Gataker and his fellowes who were pleased to thinke otherwise I hope I give therein no offence especially seeing I have Gods Word for my warrant and have such cleare knowledge and full perswasion of the blasphemie of some of his speeches That I did as Master Downham Dr. Gouge and others present at our meeting did heare and see and if their memories faile them not will confesse challenge Mr. Wotton and Mr. Gataker also if he would take his part to defend some passages in those expositions and promised that I would aske Mr. Wotton forgivenesse on my knees if I did not by convincing arguments in strict syllogismes prove them to be hereticall which they cowardly then refused with shew of scornfull disdaine But if Mr. Gataker be so highly offended because I call Mr. Wotton by the bare name of Anthony Wotton I must answer that therein I did him a favour For under that obscure title his person might have beene hid and not made knowne to any but those who were acquainted with all the passages betweene him and me But Mr. Gataker by discovering him more plainly and blazoning his armes hath exposed his person to much shame and stained the name and memorie of him long agoe dead and buried in the dust with the brand of Heresie hath made all the world see that he was the man who first sowed these Socinian tares in the faire field of the Church of England As for my selfe I am assured that the goodnesse of my cause which is the cause of God his truth will beare me out justifie me against all his misreports And if any man be forestalled with prejudice and a sinister opinion of my proceedings against Mr. Wotton let him read this my relation which I can justifie both by living witnesses and by my papers which I have in my custody untill this day When Mr. Wottons opinions were first made knowne to me upon the occasion mentioned in my letter to Mr. Wotton which hereafter followeth I by meanes of my late reading of the controversies betweene Junius Arminius Lubertus Bertius Gomarus and others of the Remonstrants did easily discerne them to be of the same stampe with the heresies of Servetus and Socinus newly revived and set on foote in Holland by Vorstius Arminius and those of that faction I shewed Mr. Wottons papers to Mr. Alexander Richardson a most learned and judicious Divine to whom for his singular learning in Divinity and all other learned Arts and excellent knowledge in the originall tongues of holy Scripture divers studious young men did resort from Cambridge to his dwelling in the parish of Barking in Essex to be directed in their study of Divinity and other arts among which these proved men of good note in our Church Mr. Hooker Mr. Chauncey Mr. Yates Mr. John Barlow Mr. Perry with others Mr. Richardson approved my censure of them and so detested them that he could not read one passage without sighing He also sent to Mr. Wotton to meete him in a conference before some judicious hearers which Mr. Wotton promised but did not performe I also sent and desired that he would admit me to come to him and conferre with him but as he was afraid to meete Mr. Richardson so he disdained my youth and yeares and referred me to one Spencer a tradesman a factious Disciple of his as I have objected to him in my letter upon this I preached two sermons in the Church of which I am now Pastor in the one I laid open breifly the true received doctrine of justification in the other I discovered Mr. Wottons opinions to be Socinian heresie and shewed the danger of them The next day some of Mr. Wottons friends being startled came to me and intreated me to goe with them to him and promised that he should purge himselfe from those errors and give me good satisfaction I yeelded to their desire and went along with two of them to Mr. Wottons house who welcomed me coldly in words though his heart seemed by his countenance to be hot with indignation and disdaine At my first entrance into his Studie he told me very abruptly that I had untruly affirmed that the whole streame of learned Orthodox Divines did hold the same doctrine which I had taught concerning justification by Christs righteousnesse imputed to beleevers And withall he shewed a place out of Luther upon the Galatians in which Luther denyed justification by our owne workes and righteousnesse of the law but in the words which next followed upon the top of of the next page which Mr. Wotton covered with his fingers as he held the booke in his hand Luther in plain words affirmed that Christs fulfilling of the law for us is our righteousnes in the same page also saith that faith is not sufficient for righteousnes without Gods imputation of Christs righteousnesse I snatched the booke out of his fingers read the words which were directly against himselfe blamed him before the two witnesses for his dealing d●lo malo and going about purposely to delude us and with great compassion and teares in mine eyes professed my griefe to see him a man of great esteeme whom I had never seene before but had much reverenced for the reports which I had heard of his great learning to play the prancke of a deceiver and jugling Sophister After many words which passed betweene us but in no strict forme of disputation which I desired and M. Wotton refused he confessed that my doctrine which I taught concerning imputation of Christs righteousnesse was sound and saving truth able to save beleevers though they went no further but he had dived more deepely into the poynts of justification and did goe further but not a contrarie way But I protested against his opinion and told him it was as contrarie to my doctrine and faith as darknesse is to light Mr. Standish one of the witnesses who went along with me desired me to rest satisfied and to breake off to which I yeelded and tooke my leave And no sooner were we entred into the streete but the said Mr. Standish brake out into speeches of dislike against Mr. Wottons

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

in your errours you shall perish and your blood shall be on your owne head But on them that put away shame from Israel and are instruments to roote out heresie from the Church and on their seed and on their house shall be peace for ever from the Lord The God of power and strength give you an heart to feare his judgements and to hearken to them that admonish you in his name And if it be his will I pray that you may be converted in his good time that the truth may flourish and the peace of our Church may be surely established unto the end of the world Thus you see I have opened my minde freely unto you If I be deceived in you it is error amoris non amor erroris I will so soone as I perceive it change my stile and mine affection towards you I pray you let me have your answer as shortly as you can if you send not quickly I will take it for granted that you scorne to hearken to me and despise my Christian admonitions as heretofore you seeme to have done and I will proceed in my resolution against you God is my witnesse I desire your good and the good of his Church If I were not carefull of your safety I would not steale this time from my nights rest and sleepe this Sabbath day at night after my body is wearyed with reading Preaching and administring the Lords Supper From my study this second of May past one a clocke in the morning Anno Dom. 1614. Yours if you be Christs George Walker VPon the receipt and reading of this Letter Mr. Wotton sent me a Letter of defiance and therein professed his scorne and disdaine of my threatnings but the next day he sent me another wherein he promised to yeild to my motion And yet to prevent our meeting he used meanes by Mr. Mason the Bishop of Londons Chaplaine an Arminian to make it knowne to the Bishop in hope that he would forbid our meeting Notwithstanding the Bishop gave way and we did meete upon a day appointed before the eight Ministers named in Mr. Gatakers defence I brought for me Mr. Stocke Mr. Downham Mr. Westfield and Mr. Gouge now Doctors He brought for him Mr. Balmeford Mr. Randall Mr. Gataker and Mr. Hickes the last of which appeared to be already of Mr. Wottons minde in all points And both Mr. Gataker and be bare themselves towards me as towards an adversary and as advocates for Mr. Wotton Dr. Westfield being the onely man with whom I then had any great familiarity did perceive a generall inclination in them all to favour Mr. Wotton as much as they could being all his old familiar friends and I a stranger of two yeares residence in the City after our first meeting refused to meete any more fearing what followed and I chose Dr. Baylie in his place I being the Plaintiffe and procurer of the meeting did first shew what I desired namely that I might have Mr. Wottons writings which were come to my hands viewed and by Mr. Wotton acknowledged which he could not deny but did confesse them to be his owne handy-worke And that I having rehearsed Mr. Wottons words out of his bookes and writings which I had in my Sermon confuted under the name of Socinian heresies and having paralleled them in writing with the words of Socinus and made them appeare to be the same by shewing and comparing the bookes and writing They would give me their hands to my parallell and subscribe that I had not either charged Mr. Wotton with any opinions or words but his owne or confuted under the name of Socinianisme any words of his but onely those wherein he did concurre with Socinus If I had either mis-related his words or confuted under the name of Socinianisme any point wherein he did not jumpe with Socinus I desired them to censure me The Parallels being read and examined appeared to some of them so cleare and my charge so just that the same day at Mr. Randall Wetwoods table where Dr. Baylie and Mr. Downham dined with me the Doctor did protest that I had discovered Mr. Wotton to be as damned an hereticke as ever did tread on English ground Mr. Downham Mr. Wetwood Mr. Taylor and Mr. Hopkins were eare-witnesses of this and all yet living as well as my selfe Mr. Wetwood asked why they did not justifie me and censure him without more adoe seeing that was the purpose of our meeting that they should judge of things accordingly as they were proved They pretended that they desired to convert not to confound Mr. Wotton that they perceived him to be afraid of shame like to fall on him and that if I would yeeld to let him expound himselfe he would by a wrested exposition gaine-say and contradict his former words and opinions and run from them which being gotten from him under his hand they would either hold him to it or shame him for ever if he did fall backe againe This course being Mr. Gatakers device I refused to yeeld unto because I had never opposed him but onely in opinions formerly published and not in future expositions and because I had fully proved my charge I desired their verdict and just judgement But after much importunity I yeelded and so lost my cause and was drawne into a new businesse that was to contend with Mr. Wotton not about his former opinions which I had formerly confuted but about new expositions which he would make in answer to my parallells At another day appointed he brought his expositions which when they had read in my hearing I did except against divers passages in them and some contradictions which I desired to argue against with Mr. Wotton face to face in strict syllogismes but he refused to answer me and our Judges refused to heare me or to suffer me to have a coppy of his expositions as he had of my parallels Whereupon I protested against their unequall dealing and departed threatning to bring him and them before higher Judges After that they had read the expositions which Mr. Gataker did plead for most hotly Mr. Wotton promised to make and publish a large declaration wherein he would free himselfe from all Socinian errors In the meane time he begg'd this favour that they would subscribe to his expositions that they found no heresie or blasphemy in them Upon this promise and intreaty they did subscribe as followeth Howsoever we whose names are underwritten doe differ from Mr. Wotton in some points of the former doctrine of Justification contained in these his expositions yet we hold not the difference to be so great and weighty as that they are to be justly condemned of heresie and blasphemy Lewes Baylie James Balmeford John Randall Richard Stocke John Downham Thomas Gataker William Gouge William Hickes THE Expositions thus subscribed were commtited to Doctor Baylie with charge that he should keepe them close and not suffer me or any other man to see or read them untill Mr.