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A67122	Mr. Anthony Wotton's defence against Mr. George Walker's charge, accusing him of Socinian heresie and blasphemie written by him in his life-time, and given in at an hearing by Mr. Walker procured ; and now published out of his own papers by Samuel Wotton his sonne ; together with a preface and postcript, briefly relating the occasion and issue thereof, by Thomas Gataker ...	Wotton, Anthony, 1561?-1626.; Wotton, Samuel.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3643; ESTC R39190	28,259	78

our obedience Therefore a man believeth because he trusteth And it is perfected by obedience because no man is truly said to have trusted before he do indeed obey Part. 4. chap. 11. pag. 555 556. And a little after 3 Whereby that appeareth to be most true which we even now strove to prove that that faith which of it self so far as concerneth what is in us doth justifie us is confidence in Christ 559. WOTTON 1 The condition to be performed on our part to justification is to believe Sermon 8. upon John pag. 352. 2 The act of faith or believing bringeth justification and adoption onely and merely by the place and office which the Lord of his own mercie hath assigned it to be the condition required on our parts for the atchieving of these favours and honours Serm. 9. pag. 452. The third errour is That Faith doth not justifie us as it apprehendeth Christ and his righteousnesse but by it self in a proper not metonymicall sense SOCINUS 1 We are justified by faith in Christ so farre forth as we trust in Christ Part. 4. chap. 11 pag. 558. col 2. 2 The faith of Christ doth justifie us by it self or to speak more rightly God doth justifie us by himself pag. 559. col 1. WOTTON 1 Faith in that place to wit Rom. 4.5 is to be taken properly unlesse peradventure it be used for to believe or to trust For that which is by some alledged of a trope whereby they suppose that Christs obedience apprehended by faith is signified I doubt how I may grant And a little after 2 What trope should there lie hid I see not 3 Also Serm. 9. on John Abraham believed God and it that is his believing was counted to him for righteousnesse pag. 453. 4 Also in his Purgation I think that faith in Christ without a trope in proper speech is imputed to all believers for righteousnesse The fourth errour is That for faith properly taken and dignified and made worthy not of it self but in Gods acceptation and of his mercie a man is justified and may lay claim as it were to remission of sinnes SOCINUS 1 For faith we are deemed perfectly just And a little after 2 Abraham believed God and for that cause he was accounted of him for righteous Part. 4. chap. 4. pag. 462. col 2. 3 For one act of faith was Abraham righteous Servetus Book 2. of Law and Gospel as Calvine reciteth in his refutation of Servetus pag. 903. WOTTON 1 He that believeth is accounted by God to all purposes concerning eternall life to have done as much according to the covenant of the Gospel as he should have been accounted to have done according to the covenant of the Law if he had perfectly fulfilled it In his first English paper The fifth errour is That faith is no firm perswasion by which men apprehend and lay hold upon Christ and his righteousnesse and apply them to themselves as of right belonging to us by our spirituall union but that it is a trust and confidence in Christ for salvation joyned with obedience to Christs precepts or to speak plainly a confidence that Christ having obtained by his obedience the Kingdome and all power will certainly give us salvation if we relie on him and obey his counsels SOCINUS 1 Faith in Christ which maketh us righteous before God is nothing else but to trust in Christ Part. 4. chap. 11. in the beginning and in the same page 560. col 2. 2 To believe in Christ is nothing else but to trust in Christ to cleave to Christ and from the heart to embrace his doctrine as heavenly and healthsome And a little before 3 This your apprehension of Christ is a mere humane device and a most empty dream And towards the end of the chapter 4 He calleth our perswasion of righteousnesse already obtained and gotten by Christ vain WOTTON 1 As for that perswasion wherein some would have faith to consist it followeth him that is justified not goeth before as faith must needs do Ser. on John p. 392. also p. 338. and 448. 2 To believe in Christ is to trust in Christ and to rest on him to have his heart settled and to relie wholly and onely on him And what this trust is he describeth more particularly pag. 390. where he saith 3 It is such a Faith as maketh us rest upon God for the performance of his promise The sixth errour is That Christs whole obedience and righteousnesse serve first and immediately for himself to bring him into favour and autoritie with God and secondly onely for us Not that it might be communicated to us in him to make us truly and formally righteous but onely that it might serve for our use in that it maketh him gracious with God and so both able to obtain that faith might be accepted for righteousnesse and we for it and also powerfull to give those blessings which are promised to those that trust in him SOCINUS 1 As Adams offense made him and all mankind procreated by him guiltie of death so Christs righteousnesse and obedience procured life eternall to Christ himself Whereby it cometh to passe that so many as shall by procreated by him become partakers of the same life Part. 4. chap. 6. and 2. part 2. Chap. 8. p. 178. col 2. and 3. part 3. chap. 3. in the end WOTTON In a paper written in Latine 1 All the good will wherewith God embraceth us proceedeth from that grace that Christ is in with God Now that is in these things for the most part contained that he is by nature the Son of God that he is perfectly holy that he hath performed obedience exact in all respects both in fulfilling the Law in performing all things belonging to the office of a Mediatour from whence it followeth that those that believe are for Christs righteousnes gracious with God And in the same paper 2 If question be concerning the formall cause of justification I exclude from it either obedience of Christ If of the efficient by way of merit I maintain it to depend upon both The seventh errour is That Christ did not satisfie the justice of God for us in such sort that we may be said when we truly believe to have satisfied the justice of God and his wrath in him and that God of his mercie without Christs satisfaction made ours doth pardon our sinnes and justifie and redeem us SOCINUS 1 Reade over all the places of the New Testament in which mention is made of redemption and you shall find none in which there is evident mention of the paiment of any true price or of satisfaction Part. 2. chap. 1. pag. 109. col 2. And a little after 2 As we are said to be sold under sinne that is enslaved to it without any true price intervening so are we said to be redeemed from the same by Christ that is freed though no price hath truly and properly intervened 3 Likewise Part. 1. chap. 7. in the