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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

wishing him rather to make choise of some other both nearer at hand and of better abilities the City affoording such not a few yet at his instant request the rather pressing it upon me because he had as he said so happily light upon me unexpected and notwithstanding that he knew before my judgement in some particulars to differ from his having both by word of mouth and in writing also sometime at his own request manifested to him as much yet making no reckoning thereof I was at length induced to condescend thereunto The persons nominated by M r Walker were M r Stocke M r Downame M r Gouge and M r Westfield whereof three is yet living M r Stock onely is deceased Those that were nominated by M r Wotton because M r Mason by occasion of an extraordinary employment by his Majestie suddenly enjoyned of surveying a book of D r John Whites ready to be published could not attend the businesse another therefore being substituted in his stead were these M r Balmford M r Randall M r Hicks Chaplain to the Earl of Excester and my self who alone I suppose of all the foure now survive and am the rather induced to affoord this Christian office to so worthy a deceased friend It was thought not so fit to meet in a private house which at first we had done but found therein some inconvenience as in some Church that stood out of the way of ordinary concourse By occasion hereof D r Baylie afterward Bishop of Banghor came in as one of us and made up a ninth because we desired to make use of his Church There accordingly we met and some time being spent or if you will wasted rather in loose invectives then in orderly disputes I made bold to propound a course to the rest of the company because time was precious and my self came farthest for the better expediting of the businesse undertaken by us which was also generally approved of by the rest and by both parties agreed unto The Proposition was this That M r Walker should in a Parallel consisting of two columns set down Socinus his hereticall and blasphemous errours and positions on the one side and M r Wottons assertions wherein he charged him to concurre with Socinus over against them on the other side upon view whereof it might the sooner appear how the one suited with the other M r Walker undertook so to do and M r Wotton required onely to have M r Walker's said writing delivered unto him some two or three dayes before the set time of our next meeting that he might against that day prepare a brief answer thereunto in writing then to be exhibited The motion was on either side deemed equall nor did M r Walker himself mislike it Now by this means God in his providence so disposing it which at the present in likelihood was little dreamed of M r Wotton as Abel though deceased is inabled to speak in his own defence and to plead now his own cause as well as then he did M r Walkers Parallel and therein his Evidence produced for the proof of his charge above mentioned you shall have in his own words as it was then given in those pieces of it onely that were conceived in Latine being faithfully translated word for word as near as could be into English because in English M r Walker's book with the renewed Charge is abroad M r WALKER 's evidence THat it may plainly appear that Socinus Servetus Ostorodius Gittichius Arminius and M r Wotton do in the doctrine of Justification hold one and the same opinion in all points I shew by the parts and heads of their doctrine set down in order and by their own sayings and testimonies paralleled and set one by another The first errour of Socinus and his followers is That Justification is contained onely in Remission of sinnes without imputation of Christ his Righteousnesse SOCINUS His own words 1 For as oft hath been said by us in remission of sinnes which is the same w th not-imputation of sins is our righteousnesse contained and therefore with Paul not to impute sinnes and to impute righteousnesse or to account righteous are the same And with this imputation as we have said the imputation of anothers righteousnesse hath no commerce Treatise of Christ the Saviour Part. 4. chap. 4. pag. 463. column 2. near the end 2 There is no one syllable extant in holy writ of Christs righteousnesse to be imputed unto us Chap. the same pag. 462. 3 It is the same with Paul to have sinnes covered to have iniquities remitted to have sinne not imputed that it is to have righteousnesse imputed without works And this manifestly declareth that there is no cause why we should suspect mention to be made of anothers righteousnesse since we reade that Faith was imputed unto Abraham for righteousnesse or unto righteousnesse pag. the same col 2. 4 God delivered the Lord Jesus unto death that by him rising from the dead we might hope to obtain justification that is absolution from our sins Pag. 463. col 2. 5 That is first to be considered that this imputation can in no wise be upheld In the same place WOTTON 1 Albeit with Piscator I willingly acknowledge that the justification of a sinner is wholly comprehended in the alone pardon of sins yet I find no where in Holy writ that there is need of the Imputation of Christs passive obedience unto the attaining of it Theses in Latine 2. That Christs obedience is imputed by God to the justification of a sinner doth not appear by any testimonie of Scripture or by any argument or by any type or ceremonie in the Law or by any signification in the Sacraments of the Gospel In the same arg 1. 3 No necessary use or end can be assigned of the imputation of the obedience of Christ to the justification of a sinner In the same arg 4. 4 I renounce the Law both in whole and in part performed by our selves or any other in our stead to the justifying of us in the sight of God 5 I assent to Piscator that justification consisteth wholly in remission of sinnes For so doth the Apostle Rom. 3. 4. propound and dispute the question without any mention or inckling of Christs righteousnesse These are his words in a little English Pamphlet first published briefly and secondly by him enlarged The second point or errour is That Faith is a condition appointed by God to be performed on our parts for obtaining of Justification SOCINUS 1 The promise was made to Abraham not without a secret condition to wit that he should walk before God and be perfect that is he should not refuse to obey him Now to walk before God and to obey him are included in faith and cannot be without it yea they flow from it alone as he himself teacheth after in the same chapter 2 The confidence saith he which he had before affirmed to be faith is the cause of

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

end he denieth Satisfaction 4 Also Chap. 4. pag. 84. col 2. That there is no need of any satisfaction when the offense is not imputed to him that hath offended by the party against whom he hath offended or the debt is by the creditour remitted WOTTON In the paper written in Latine 1 Neither that I speak freely what I truly think can I understand what place is left for pardon if by payment of pains in Christ we be deemed to have satisfied the wrath of God and to have born the punishment due to our sinnes for Pardon and Punishment are contraries 2 Also in his English paper enlarged the same words are rehearsed and the same reason given even Because Pardon and Punishment are contraries Thus have you the evidence by M r Walker then given in for the justifying of that his charge which for the effect and substance of it is in as broad and odious terms in print now again renewed some six and twenty years after the cause according to his own request heard and some fourteen years after M r Wotton's decease May it please you now to heare M r Wotton's answer in his own defense as it was in writing by him then exhibited Mr. Wotton's Defence A. W. in the doctrine of Justification holdeth one and the same opinion in all points with Socinus and therefore is justly charged by G. W. to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy That he doth hold the same in all points is shewed by these seven Errours following The first Errour of Socinus and his followers is That Justification is contained onely in Remission of Sinnes without Imputation of Christs Righteousnesse 1. If you mean without Imputation of Christs Righteousnesse as the meritorious cause of Justification I grant the Proposition to be hereticall and blasphemous And so doth Socinus deny Imputation I. Christ saith he did not satisfie for our sinnes Treatise of Christ the Saviour Part 1. chap. 1. pag. 1. part 2. chap. 17. pag. 245. col 1. part 3. pag. 306. beginning and chap. 1. pag. 307. col 1. II. He could not satisfie Part 2. chap. 24. pag. 288. col 2. part 3. in argum chap. 6 pag. 406. III. He did not pacifie God Part 2. chap. 2. pag. 120. col 1. Part 1. chap. 7. pag. 76. col 2. IV. There was no need of any satisfaction to be made Part 1. chap. 1. pag. 1. V. God would not that any satisfaction should be made Part 3. chap. 2. pag. 317. col 2. and pag. 324. col 1. But I do not so deny Imputation of Christs Righteousnesse for I acknowledge it to be the meritorious cause of our Justification and that for it we are accepted of God as fully as if we had fulfilled the Law perfectly Treatise of the Justification of a Sinner in explication of the definition of Reconciliation and in the definition of Adoption and in the Conclusion 2. If you mean without Imputation of Christs Righteousnesse as the formall cause whereby we are made formally righteous by having fulfilled the Law and satisfied the Justice of God in Christ I say the Proposition is neither hereticall nor blasphemous And that I must be so understood my writings shew For first I professe that I speak of the formall cause of Justification Treat of Justific of a Sinner in the State of the Question in Answer to Argum. for Position 1. and to Arg. 1. for Position 3. and in the Conclusion Secondly I expresse that manner of formally righteous Treat of Justific of a Sinner where I expound what it is to impute to a Sinner Christs Obedience and of Justification where I deliver mine own opinion Sect. 2. which is the very place that M r Walker alledgeth against me out of the English Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this first Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification The second Errour is That Faith is a condition appointed by God to be performed on our parts for obtaining Justification 1. Socinus defineth believing on Christ to be nothing else then to yield ones self obedient to God according to the rule and prescript of Christ and by so doing to expect from Christ himself the crown of life eternall Treat of Christ the Saviour Part 3. chap. 2. pag. 321. col 1. 2. He maketh Faith to be indeed as M r Walker saith a confidence in Christ but he addeth immediately which M r Walker leaveth it that is an obedience to Christs precepts with a firm hope of obtaining those things which he hath promised to those that obey him Part 4. chap. 11. pag. 559. col 1. and in the same page he laboureth to prove That Faith doth signifie obedience to Christs Commandments Sect. Hinc factum est 3. He maketh Repentance and Amendment of life the means to obtain that forgivenesse of sinnes which Christ hath brought Part 3. chap. 2. pag. 321. col 1. 4. And whereas Faith is added to Repentance Act. 20.21 It is not saith he because Faith in Christ is required unto the obtaining of remission of sinnes as working somewhat more in us besides repentance it self that doth hereunto appertain but because this Repentance cometh not but by Faith in Christ In the same columne Sect. Manifestum 5. He saith that whereas John sent the people to Christ and warned them to believe in him it was not as if they should find any other thing besides Repentance in Christ that was requisite unto the obtaining of pardon from God but first that they might be exactly taught of Christ what that Repentance ought to be Besides that from Christ they might understand that that was wholly so indeed which he delivered onely as a messenger Lastly that they might not be washed with water onely but have the holy Ghost poured upon them Part 3. pag. 320. col 1. But I never writ spake nor conceived so of Faith to the obtaining of Justification Nay it is evident that I make Faith not a believing of that which Christ taught and an assurance of obtaining that he promised upon our Repentance and Obedience which is Socinus his confidence Part 4. chap. 11 pag. 559. col 1. but a resting and relying upon Christ a trusting to Christ for salvation Serm. 6. upon John pag. 286. and Serm. 8. pag. 386 389 398. yea a means and if you will an instrument to apprehend and receive Christ to our Justification Treat of Justific in explicat of the Definition of Reconcil So that for ought I hold of Faith Christs Righteousnesse may be even the formall cause of our Justification Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this second Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification The third Errour is That Faith doth not justifie us as it apprehendeth

and applieth Christ and his Righteousnesse but by it self in a proper not metonymicall sense This third Errour hath two Propositions which shall be answered to severally The former is That Faith doth not justifie as it apprehendeth and applieth Christ and his Righteousnesse I hold this Proposition to be false acknowledging and confessing that Faith doth not justifie us but onely as it apprehendeth and applieth Christ and his Righteousnesse the very condition of the Gospel being That by Faith we apprehend and apply Christ and his righteousnesse to be justified thereby Treat of Justifie in explic of the definit of Reconcil The other Proposition is That Faith doth justifie us by it self in a proper not metonymicall sense I never said or thought that Faith doth justifie us by it self This onely I say that in this Proposition Faith is counted for Righteousnesse the word Faith is to be taken properly not tropically the question being in such Propositions not of the meritorious or formall cause of our Justification but of the condition required on our part instead of keeping the Law Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this third Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification 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 mercy a man is justified and may lay claim to remission of sinnes Neither Socinus nor Servetus in the words you bring out of them affirm that a man is justified and may lay claim to remission of sinnes for Faith any way dignified c. Nay Socinus avoucheth that Repentance and Amendment of life is that by which that forgivenesse of sinnes which is brought by Christ is obtained Part 3. chap. 2. pag. 322. col 1. How then am I proved to agree with him in that Errour which he is not proved to hold Especially seeing that I never said that we are justified for Faith and do renounce all dignity and worth in Faith and give the whole merit of our Justification to our Saviour Christ and his obedience That which is alledged out of my papers is no more but this That the condition of the Gospel being Faith as the condition of the Law is Keeping of the Law he that believeth in Christ hath done as much that is performed the condition of the Gospel as well as he that keepeth the Law hath fulfilled the condition of the Law so that on his part God requireth no more to his Justification And that this is certainly my meaning the words going before in that English paper and those also that follow in the other English paper and in the Latine do manifestly shew Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this fourth Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemie for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification The fifth Errour is That Faith is no firm perswasion by which we apprehend and lay hold upon Christ and his Righteousnesse and apply them to our selves 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 rely on him and obey his counsels Whether the three Propositions set down in this Errour be rightly gathered from the words alleaged by M r Walker out of Socinus or no I leave to other mens judgement But whatsoever Socinus held I have nothing to do with any of these Propositions Onely of the first I say That the perswasion whereof I speak in the place he bringeth is that particular assurance that every man as some define Faith must have to Justification viz. that his sinnes are forgiven in Christ Whereas Faith being the condition required on our part must go before Justification at least in nature But this perswasion followeth it and is bred in us by the Spirit of God after we believe and are justified For it is given to us being already adopted Sons Gal. 4.5 and Adoption is a Prerogative vouchsafed us upon our believing John 1.12 Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this fifth Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification The sixth Errour is That Christs whole obedience and Righteousnesse serve first and immediately for himself to bring him into favour and authority 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 The words you alledge out of Socinus prove no more at the most but the first point of this Errour That Christs whole Obedience and Righteousnesse serve first and immediately for himself to bring him into favour and authority with God There is nothing in this sixth Errour that toucheth me All that I say in the former place alledged by M r Walker is no more but this That whatsoever maketh Christ beloved of God is some cause of Gods love to us who are beloved in and for him Ephes 1.3 4 6. Now among other things for which Christ is beloved his holinesse and obedience have no mean place Whereupon it followeth that they may be reckoned in the number of those causes that make us beloved of God in and for his Sonne our Saviour Jesus Christ Treat of Justific of a Sinner in explic of the Definit of Reconcil In the latter I say That we are not accounted to be Formally Righteous by having fulfilled the Law and satisfied the Justice of God in Christ And yet I acknowledge that we are for his obedience accepted of God as righteous no lesse then if we had indeed performed those things And this was determined in the first Errour to be neither heresie nor blasphemy Therefore I agree not with Socinus in this sixth Errour but am unjustly charged to be guilty of heresie and blasphemy for holding one and the same opinion with him in all points in the doctrine of Justification 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 Mercy without Christs satisfaction made ours doth pardon our sinnes and justifie and redeem us Socinus denieth all satisfaction by Christ