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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67126	Socinianisme in the fundamentall point of justification discovered, and confuted, or, An answer to a written pamphlet maintaining that faith is in a proper sense without a trope imputed to beleevers in justification wherein the Socinian fallacies are discovered and confuted, and the true Christian doctrine maintained, viz. that the righteousnesse by which true beleevers are justified before God is the perfect righteousnesse and obedience which the Lord Iesus Christ God and man did perform to the law of God, both in his life and death / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W365; ESTC R3923	109,383	364

dispersed it in London and from thence into severall places of the Countrie about 28. yeares agoe was Anthony Wotton who being discovered and hotly opposed by the Author of this answer was by his zeale and the industrie of some other Preachers in London quickly quelled and his opinion suppressed but yet because he would uphold a secret faction he wrote a booke in Latine wherein he seemed to retract or rather to run from some desperate opinions and speeches which are to bee seene in his private manuscripts given by him from hand to hand and formerly dispersed For whereas in divers of them he professeth in plaine words his dissent from all our Orthodox Divines which had beene before written of Justification saying I am inforced to dissent from them all He in that booke laboured to make a shew of consent with them and did wrest some of their doubtfull speeches to countenance his Socinianisme This booke intituled De Reconciliatione some of his fiery factious and zealous disciples with much difficulty after it was rejected at Leiden and Amsterdam procured it to be printed at their owne cost brought over the Copies and sold them under hand in London And out of it wee may justly suspect that this Scribler and babler hath stollen the most part of his conclusions arguments and distinctions for I am informed that he is a great admirer of that book and of the Author also So that if this Socinian Iohn will and must needs have and usurpe that high Title which our Saviour gave to Iohn the Baptist and will bee called as his disciples stick not to stile him the shining light of the Church in these last dayes Surely he is but a borrowed light or rather a wandring light like that ignis fatuus which in darke nights leadeth the followers into ditches loggs praecipces and breakneck downfalls as the Philosophers write of it For the recalling of the ignorant who are by him seduced for the confounding of them who are by him perverted and for the stopping of the foule lying and slanderous mouthes of those factious sectaries his followers of a scarred conscience who as they have his person in high admiration so also are bold to revise and defame all godly and learned Preachers who oppose his errours and preach against them I will spend a few spare houres to sift his written discourse at least so much of it as is come to my hands hoping by evidence of truth plaine Scriptures solid reasons and testimonies of the best writers to make it manifest to GODS people that he is a mere Socinian Sophister and dangerous seducer and that his discourse is an hotch potch of pestilent errours and full of ●e●giversations contradictions and perverse wrestlings of Scriptures and of the words and writings both of Ancient and moderne Divines And that neither he himselfe nor his clamarous disciples may have the least colour or occasion to complaine that I have not dealt fairely with him I will first set downe his Socinianisme word for word out of his owne writings without concealing any word or sentence And to every part thereof I will oppose the contrary doctrine of Christ under the name of Christianisme And first I begin with his preface with which he begins his first Chapter The Preface to Socinianisme FOr the cleare understanding of the state and drift of the question something would be premised which for the evidence sake might be privileddg and exempted from passing under much dispute and contradiction yet if any thing be not sufficiently prepared for assent in the briefe proposall of it the ensuing discourse will labour to reconcile the disproportion And in the progresse make satisfaction for what it shall receive upon curtesie in the beginning The Answer to the Preface THis short Preface doth by the affected stile and phrase of it discover the Author to bee one who hath studied to preach himselfe more then Christ and to set forth his owne absurd conceits in the entising words of carnall wisedome not to declare the Testimony of GOD in Apostolicall plainenesse nor in demonstration of the Spirit and of power as Saint Paul did The loftie words and short cut speech which hee useth here and in this ensuing discourse are so farre beyond the capacity of his rude unlearned followers that his wooden pulpit shall assoone as they understand them unlesse he first teach them his Grammaticall skill before hee admit them into his Theologicall auditorie But belike hee knowes the ready way to catch the wavering unstable and giddie multitude those wandering Starres of these last times who are like clowdes without water carried about with windes of every new and strange Doctrine and of all people are the fittest to bee his disciples For the mouth which speaketh great swelling words is admired of them who have mens persons in admiration and farre fetcht phrases are fine fooleries to tickle the itching eares and win the hearts of such as desire to seeme and bee counted something when indeed they are nothing but bubbles and empty bladders who as they admire every bewitching Simon Magus as the great power of GOD and extoll to the Skies his most cursed errours So they abhorre and revile all sincere and godly Preachers rebukers of their madnesse blaspheme GODS word in their mouthes and speake evill of the good things which they understand not untill in the gainsaying of Core they utterly perish Moreover to give him his due he appeares to mee in his stile and phrase a very skilfull Artist in his owne way as cunning as the subtle Serpent in cloathing and trimming his strange Doctrines with strange conceited words fited to them by which they who affect strange novelties may easily be allured and insnared But when the children of truth hunt him by the smell and strong savours of his rankling errours which stink as well as fret like an eating Cancer and are ready to catch him hee doth by his inkhorne termes so obscure and darken his meaning that onely they who have a sharp quick and strong sight can lay fast and sure hold on him Wee may well resemble him to the crafty fish Sepia of which we read that when she is pursued and ready to be taken she spueth forth a black inke wherewith she darkneth the waters round about and so escapes away in thick darknesse through which she cannot be seene and discerned But to omit his stile and to come to the matter of his preface it is a promise and pretence of somewhat by him premised which shall serve for the cleare understanding of the state of the question and for evidence sake might be priviledged from passing under much dispute and contradiction but hoc aliquid nihil est this something is nothing we find no performance of promise nor truth in what hee pretendeth neither his briefe proposall nor his ensuing discourse gives us any satisfaction neither can his beginning progresse or ending receive from us any thing upon curtesie For if