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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

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.

fraudulent dealing protested that he would never hearken to his opinion and doctrine in these points any more and that he was much comforted and confirmed by that acknowledgment of the truth which I at length did wring from Mr. Wottons owne mouth The second day after this I went to Cambridge returned not to London till three months after in which time what lyes were dispersed in London concerning my apostasie to Mr. Wottons errors my letter to him sheweth The next yeare after I came to be setled in my pastorall charge and because I found some in my parish much inclining to Mr. Wottons opinion out of respect to his person more then any knowledge being not able to give any reason for it at all I spent many Sabbaths in preaching the doctrine of justification out of the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans and in discovering and confuting all errors contrarie to the truth professed in the reformed Churches and amongst the rest the errors of Socinus What affronts were offered me in the Church what clamours raised against me in the citie my letter to Mr. Wotton will tell you in part I could rehearse many passages which would move laughter and discover the absurditie and ridiculous folly of divers people who were factiously addicted to admire all things in Mr. Wotton good or bad I will Instance in one example onely It was this I was requested to preach at Black-friers on a Wednesday in the absence of Mr. Gouge some weekes after I had finished my text concerning Justification In that assemblie there were many ancient professors of Religion who knew me not by face and who were so taken with my Sermon that they were verie inquisitive to know my name and hearing that I was Pastor of Saint John Evangelists and my name Walker they were so possessed with an evill opinion of me by the slaunders and railings of Mr. Wotton and his disciples that they cryed Hang him he will be hanged before he come to preach such a godly Sermon as this is we will never beleeve that this is that Walker which hath preached against that man of God Mr. Wotton and belyed him in the pulpit My Clerke being well acquainted with them and overhearing did affirme to them that I was the man and told them that they themselves might easily come to be hanged in hell if they did not repent of their wicked railings against me so unjustly By this you see what wrong I suffered and what hu●t shamelesse slaunders of wicked hypocrites may doe to the good name of the most innocent even among them that are religious These such injuries and reproaches heaped on me together with a ridiculous booke written against me by one Spencer a disciple of Mr. Wotton forced me to write a challenge in my letter to Mr. Wotton by which I at length brought him to the conference which is the subject of M. Gatakers invective against me This letter because it containes a just complaint and a rehearsall of the ill behaviour of M. Wotton and his Disciples towards me I have thought good here to insert that the world may see the intolerable provocations wherewith I was provoked to call M. Wotton to account before some brethren in the Ministery equally chosen by both parties Anthonio Wottono Georgius Walker resipiscentiam sanam mentem precatur SIr my hearty desire and prayer to God for you is that you may repent and be saved And as I doe and by the grace of God will continually pray to God for you so long as there is any hope So now also I will not spare to exhort you and in the bowels of Jesus Christ beseech you yea if neede require by thunderings and threatnings of Gods heavy judgements proceed and goe forward to puty ou in feare that if it be possible you may repent and recant and that the errors and thoughts of your heart may be forgiven for I perceive that you are in the gall of bitternesse and in the bonds of iniquitie You will perhaps say A sharpe and a fierce onset who can beare it To remove and prevent all prejudice I answer if it be sharpe it is as it ought to be for a deepe and festered wound hath neede of a sharpe corrasive but such I am perswaded in my soule that yours is and upon my conscience and before God I speake it whom I know to be the searcher of all hearts Wherefore though an heart settled in error and over-runne with perverse affection cannot brooke any sharpe reproofe but will hate the reproover according to that saying of the wise man Reproove a scorner and he will hate thee yet I will against hope beleeve under hope though my experience would perswade me the contrarie and will hope better things of you yea I will thus say to my heart Feare not neither be affraid of his countenance though it be as hard as brasse for if he be ordained to life and be within the compasse of Gods election though he be troubled and frett at the first yet spare not to rebuke for by this meanes thou shalt find more favour in the end I am not ignorant that by my former both writing and preaching against your errors and by my fervency and vehemency of words I have troubled and vexed you neither would I have you thinke that I have thus dealt with you upon any distempered affection or such like infirmity I professe ingenuously that I have done it upon good deliberation and of set purpose because I have judged doe yet still deeme that course to be the best for divers reasons First because I knew that the errors and opinions which you maintaine and wherewith you have infected divers are of all that ever were sowne by the enemie of God and men among Christian people the most pe●●ilent and dangerous being nothing else but the heresies of Serve●us and Socinus those most damnable and cursed heretickes the greatest monsters that ever were borne within the borders of Christs Church as I can plainly shew by your owne writings and theirs compared together and would have already shewed if you had not refused to joyne with me in a Christian conference before eight learned and godly Ministers Now being perswaded yea knowing that your opinions are so dangerous pe●nicious do you not thinke that I am bound before God to lay them open and to inveigh against them after the manner of Gods Prophets whose fashion hath ever beene to brand lesse sinnes then these and lesse dangerous errors with the name of abomination blasphemy sorcery witch-craft and such like The second reason of my fervency is godly jealousie because I see that you labour by all meanes to draw mens hearts from the love of the truth of my God generally professed unto your errours and that many who are grounded in knowledge of good things are so overcome with a conceit of you and affection to your person that rather then they will forsake you