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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

all round about have heard and been offended And yet all this I have endured though the Law was in my hand to make them be apprehended brought before the Magistrate and punished and for all this there is no remorse nor amendment Shall I nay can I thinke you in this case judge any better of them then as of wilfull heretickes and blasphemers and of your Doctrine which leades them into this excesse then as of devillish heresie For the Doctrine which I delivered and they derided did not in one sentence differ from the doctrine of Calvin and all learned Divines as by my papers and notes shall appeare Lastly for I will not repeate all particulars which were an endlesse worke you still goe on in your opinions and send out pamphlet after pamphlet full of contradictions and falsifications as I can shew you to your face You will neither conferre before any of our learned Brethren godly Ministers privately nor publiquely before the Reverend Bishop of London You dare not commit yourselfe to him because he is a wicked Judge and will respect persons in Judgement my friends are too potent with him these are your excuses and I know them all to be false For so cunningly did you dissemble with that good Bishop and hide your errours that he rather blamed me than you as I heare Can you therefore in conscience blame me if I for these and such like reasons thinke hardly of you as of an Heretique and though my zeale doe burne against you like a fire though I cannot without griefe looke upon you May not a Christian Minister nay is he not bound in conscience being thus perswaded to cry out against you and to lift his voyce like a trumpet and make men know your abominations yea to threaten hell destruction and all curses against you except you repent Surely my conscience doth not accuse me of any thing which I have done in this cause I have the examples of the Prophets to warrant and encourage me and to justifie my doings If you will stop my mouth you must either by words or deeds perswade me to thinke otherwise and I promise you I will yea I desire to be otherwise perswaded if you will but purge your selfe from the crimes whereof you are openly convicted Wherefore I will once againe intreate you and earnestly request you yea charge you in the name of Iesus Christ that if you desire the peace of the Church and can abide to have the truth tryed you will cast off those carnall and corrupt yea hellish affections of pride and disdaine or at least this show of them which appeareth in you and meete me as a Christian before eight godly and learned Ministers chosen equally by both that they be witnesse betweene you and me and that it may be seene whether I doe justly charge you with heresie and blasphemy or no and whether your writings doe not shew you to be a Socinian The foure Ministers which I will chuse for my part shall be Mr. Stocke Mr. Downham Mr Westfield and Mr. Gouge I professe and take God to witnesse that I desire your conversion not your confusion It is my love and zeale for truth more then hatred or indignation against you which makes me so hot and earnest against your errours The first offence that ever you gave me was the injurie which you have done to the obedience righteousnesse and blood of our Saviour Iesus Christ whom you denye to be so made mine that his obedience is imputed to me for righteousnesse and his blood for the satisfaction of Gods justice For this if you obstinately persist in it I must hate you with a perfect hatred as if you were mine enemie neither shall there ever be peace so long as your errors are so great and pernicious God himselfe I am assured will trouble you And quickely confound you except you repent O consider therefore from whence you are fallen and suspect your selfe Cannot that faith be sufficient for you which hath saved so many Saints of God and for the which so many godly and noble Martyrs have heretofore shed their blood even in this place and in this Kingdome Me thinks that the name of Servetus and Socinus should terrifie your conscience if it were so tender as you have heretofore professed Can you hope for any good or pure water from such foule and polluted Cisternes full of all heresie and blasphemie O that you would but lay these things to your heart and be moved My heart I assure you is open to imbrace you with all love if you would truly repent God forbid that I should hate you any otherwise then as you are the enemy of Christ And God forbid that I should give you one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or God save you if you persist in this heresie which is so contrarie to the wholsome doctrine of salvation Wherefore if now you will shew but one signe of amendment by yeelding to my request and appointing a time and place where we may meete I will much relent from my Iealousie over you and I hope that God will give good successe But if I finde you so incurable that you will not admit of the least meanes which tends to the cure of your soule but will still upon no grounds at all persist in your novelties and publish them for the seducing of others to the overthrow of Gods ttuth and the disturbance of the Church I doe thinke my selfe bound in conscience to forbeare no longer but to publish your errours to the world that all may see those many errours blasphemies and contradictions which I have faithfully gathered out of your owne words and writings And because you doe goe about by your disciple Spencer to challenge me and to debase my calling and Ministery by laying false imputations upon me as ignorance slander and the like I have resolved to draw articles against you and to collect your errours and misdemeanours into one supplication and to present it to the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace and to the High Commission that there and before them it may be tryed and seene whether you doe not jumpe with Socinus in his heresie I know and have traced you in all your Socinian and Arminian trickes and distinctions and if you trust to them you are deceived If you compell me to take this last and most desperate course with you and if it turne to the subversion and ruine of your whole estate and of your selfe and your disciples blame your selfe and not me For you see I admonish you first and it is in your owne hand to prevent it I am loath to be a meanes of your open shame and confusion but if no better will be Melius est ut pereat unus quam unitas Our Saviour Christ you know gave this commandement that when you will not be privately admonished then we must tell the Church Sure I am that if you be once brought in publicke and persist