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cause_n	justification_n	justify_v	meritorious_a	2,124	5	11.4575	5	true

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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

Mr. Wotton affirming that if we be freely pardoned then our sinnes were not punished in Christ our head and surety doth not deny Christs satisfaction for sinne 7. Quest Whether Mr. Wotton be not guilty of hereticall tergiversation and grosse contradiction in these passages First when he saith that there is no end or use of the imputation of Christs Righteousnesse pag. 12. of Mr. Gatakers defence And againe pag. 21. That it is hereticall and blasphemous to say that Christs Righteousnesse is not imputed as the meritorious cause of Justification And againe in his Essayes saith that there is no mention of the merit of Christ in all the Scriptures Secondly when he saith That Faith doth not justifie us per se by it selfe and yet is said properly and not tropically to be imputed to us for Righteousnesse pag. 27. of the Defence and is the onely condition which God requires on our part for Justification pag. 13. Also when he saith That Faith doth not justifie us but onely as it apprehendeth and applyeth Christ and his Righteousnesse pag. 27. And yet denyeth that Christs Righteousnesse is so apprehended and applyed by Faith that God counts it our Righteousnesse to Justification pag. 12. Thirdly when he renounceth the Law of God performed by our selves or any other in our stead for the justifying of us before God pag. 12. And denyeth that we are punished for our sinnes in Christ our head and surety for the satisfying of Gods just wrath pag. 29. And yet pag. 34. saith I acknowledge and professe that Christ hath made satisfaction for us by paying a true price to God his Father Is not this the same tergiversation which the Hereticke Socinus useth Who in some places confesseth in the Scripture phrases that Christ is our Redeemer our Ransome and the propitiation for our sinnes And in other places denyeth Christs satisfying and paying of a ransome to God for our Redemption and justification Fourthly when he saith that we are not accounted to be formally righteous by fulfilling the Law and satisfying the Justice of God in Christ and yet saith that we are accepted of God as Righteous for Christs obedience no lesse then if wee had indeed performed those things pag. 32. and pag. 26. For ought I hold of Faith Christs Righteousnesse may be even the formall cause of our Justification But pag. 22. He confesseth that he denyeth Christs Righteousnesse to be imputed as the formall cause whereby we are made formally Righteous which is a flat contradiction of the Apostles words Rom. 5. 19. By the obedience of one many shall be made righteous that is constituted and made formally righteous for so the Greeke word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} doth signifie 8. Quest Whether Mr. Wotton can with a good conscience by Mr. Gataker be justified and proclaimed free from heresie when he wil fully and perversely denyeth the very forme essence and being of Justification to wit the imputation of Christs Righteousnesse which he first simply rejecteth as being of no use and afterwards as the formall cause of justification seeing he the said Mr. Gataker hath publickely extolled and commended for Orthodox the like Treatise of Mr. William Bradshaw wherein he makes imputation of Christs Righteousnesse the forme of Justification and inveighed against some meaning me who had opposed some errours and contradictions which are in that Booke in his funerall Sermon Preached at Mr. Bradshawes buryall 9. Quest Whether the faithfull being by one spirit united to Christ and made one spirituall body and partakers of his righteousnesse and whole obedience to the Law of God and thereby constituted righteous before God can without hereticall perversenesse be denyed againe and againe to be formally that is truely and really righteous by that Righteousnesse though not inherent in every beleever but onely spiritually communicated from the head to every member of the body 10. Quest Whether Mr. Wotton might not justly be judged to be possessed with the spirit of Socinian blindnesse and giddinesse when he derides Orthodox Divines For making every beleever justifyed by imputation of Christs satisfactory obedience a Redeemer and Saviour and satisfyer for all the elect and faithfull for thus he argues If Christs Righteousnesse and satisfaction be imputed to every beleever then must every beleever be counted a Redeemer Justifyer Satisfyer for all the Elect But this is absurd Ergo the Antecedent is false In one of his written pamphlets though they doe not hold that Gods imputing of Christs obedience and satisfaction is an accounting of it to be performed by them in their owne persons or imputed as a meritorious efficient cause but onely his accounting it theirs by communion from Christ the head to every member so farre as to make him formally righteous And yet he himselfe contradicting his former absolute denyall of imputation pag. 12. doth hold imputation of Christs Righteousnesse as a meritorious and efficient cause of Justification pag. 21. Which is a manifest falling into that absurdity which he would pin upon others For if it be counted ours as a meritorious efficient cause then are we all counted justifyers who doe justifie the Elect and merit their justification I could propound divers other Questions but when Mr. Gataker sees himselfe seriously to answer these I hope he shall perceive if he hath ever an eye left to see that his defence of Mr. Wotton is worse then standing at his backe till his head be broken even a breaking of his head and a defaming of him by going about to defame me unjustly in this pretended Defence the issue whereof is That by publishing in Print those damnable hereticall speeches which I in private objected against Mr. Wotton out of his owne writings not one word whereof he could deny he hath made Mr. Wottons name to stinke like the issue of a running Cancer in a most foule body and like those Sepulchres dogges which scratch rotten carkasses out of their graves hee hath raked up Mr. Wottons rotten body of errours out of his grave as some godly Divines have said upon the reading of his defence For what true Christian when he reades those desperate speeches which I objected in my parallel now Printed by Mr. Gataker viz. That there is no end or use whatsoever of the imputation of Christs obedience active or passive for the justification of sinners That Faith taken in a proper sense is by God counted for Righteousnesse And is for all purposes as sufficient to justification under the Gospell as the fulfilling of the Law by a man in his owne person was in the covenant of workes that he renounceth the fulfilling of the Law by Christ for our Justification And that our sinnes are not punished in Christ nor Gods wrath satisfyed thereby is not so offended with the ill savour of those rotten heresies that he is forced to stoppe his nose at the reading of them as passengers doe when they passe by the valley of Hamon Gog Ezech. 29. 11. If Mr.