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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

writings yet extant and in the hands of too many by means whereof it is to be feared that they do the more hurt The principall of his tenets though not so prodigious as those of Servetus yet blasphemous and vile enough are these He denieth not Christs deity and eternity onely with Arrius but his existence at all also before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary with Photinus and so maketh him a mere man He denieth Christ to have been a redeemer or to have wrought any redemption or to have paid any price or ransome unto God for us truly and properly so termed or that by his sufferings any satisfaction at all was made unto God for our sinnes or that God is thereby reconciled unto us or that thereby he merited ought from God either for himself or for us That he is therefore onely called a Saviour and is said to save partly because he teacheth us by his doctrine and sheweth us by his practice the way to life eternall and confirmeth the same to us by the miracles that he wrought and by his dying and rising again from the dead and partly because he hath power given him by God to make the same good unto all that believe in him That to believe in him is nothing else but to obey him or to keep his precepts under hope of eternall life thereby to be obtained and that this is the very form and essence of justifying faith and that for so doing a man is justified and accepted to life eternall and that it is therefore in our power by our good works to attain thereunto This is the summe of his doctrine concerning mans justification and salvation wherein also I am the briefer because much of it hath been laid down before Now whether M r Wotton or M r Godwin do conspire and concurre with Peter Abeilard Servetus and Socinus in these their blasphemous dotages and are therefore justly yoked with them by M r Walker or no it concerneth not me let others try and determine But for M r Wotton his own defence of himself herein and the censure of others by M r Walker himself appealed to which he cannot therefore in equity go from I have faithfully delivered being confirmed by the attestation of those whom he cannot except against being men of his own choise and of sufficient credit and good esteem otherwise And as for M r Godwin to me a mere stranger in regard of any acquaintance one whom I never heard or saw to my knowledge save once of late occasionally at the funerall of a friend nor know certainly what he holdeth or hath taught I say no more but as they sometime of their sonne Aetatem habet he is old enough and for ought I know able enough to answer for himself and he surviveth yet so to do if he see good But whether Peter Abeilard ever moved this Question which M r Walker saith he was the first mover of to wit Whether faith or the righteousnesse of Christ be imputed in the act of justification is to me a great question And M r Walker's reading herein as I confesse it may well be is better then mine if he can shew where either he did ever handle it or is reported so to have done Nor do I find in all M r Calvines large relation and refutation of Servetus his blasphemies where ever he propounded or maintained any question in such terms as this by M r Walker is here conceived in For Socinus it is true that in prosecution of his discourses wherein he laboureth to prove Christ to be such a Saviour onely as was out of him before described he is inforced to acknowledge that Faith such as he meaneth that is Obedience to Christs commandments doth justifie without relation to ought done or suffered by Christ any satisfaction made by him or merit of his neither of which he acknowledgeth And the like may be deduced from what Servetus held though his assertions as Calvine also well observeth are found oft to enterfere and to crosse one another and from that also that Abeilard is by Bernard charged to have held But if M r Walker will father this upon him concerning the deniall of the Imputation of Christs righteousnesse because from his positions it may be deduced he might have risen a great deal higher and have fetched in Simon Magus Ebion Cerinthus Marcion Manes and a whole rabble of old hereticks and out of the ancient stories of the Church made a list as large almost as his book is long from whose pestilent positions the same might as well be deduced as from those things that Abeilardus and Servetus maintained Again neither is this sufficient to prove a point to be hereticall and blasphemous because it may be deduced from assertions of that nature for if we shall condemn as hereticall and blasphemous whatsoever by necessary consequence may be extracted from those dotages that some blasphemous hereticks have held the like censure may then yea must then be passed upon many orthodox tenets in the negative especially maintained by us against the Church of Rome since that they follow necessarily from those grounds that by such hereticks have been held For example That Christs body is not really present in the Sacrament nor is sacrificed and offered up to God in the Masse doth necessarily follow from the opinion of Eutyches and others who maintained the humane nature of Christ to be swallowed up into his Godhead from the dotages of Simon Saturn Basilides and many more who held that he never suffered at all of Apelles who held that his body was dissolved into the foure elements of Seleucus Manes and Hermes that held it fastened to the starres or lodged in the sunne That there is no purgatory nor use of invocation of Saints or of singing masses for souls deceased followeth necessarily from the opinion of the Sadduces that held no spirits and from the Psychopannychites dream of the souls sleeping till the last day which in effect therefore the sequestration of them at least from the divine presence till then that Chamaelion Spalatensis pretended the rather to maintain because by it those Popish errours would be easily and evidently overthrown For who is so meanly versed in the art of reasoning as not to know That the clearest truths may be deduced from the grossest falshoods that may be As grant a stone to have life and a man to be a stone and it will thence follow that a man hath life And yet were it absurd from hence to conclude that whosoever holdeth the latter must needs either concurre in judgement with those that should maintain the former or hold any falshood much lesse any absurdity though those positions that inferre it be both false and absurd And let M r Walker consider this calmly and seriously with