Reference code
DWL/RB/
Level of description
item
Title
On the rule of faith
Date
1690-1691
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 216-218 (f 217v and f 218 are blank); 300 x 188 mm.
Genre/Physical Characteristic:Wm; Arms of London; AJ: 112 x 73 mm A second unidentified watermark
Creator
Scope and content
Baxter’s answer to two questions proposed by Roman Catholics on whether there is an infallible 'rule of faith'? And, how it may be known? With an introduction, concerning Mr Langhorne’s questions from ‘about 20 years ago’.
Finding aids
Argent / Black v.175 (also listed as v.45); Thomas p.23
Publication note
  • See Rel. ii. 218 and Rel. iii. 99 and Baxter’s book there referred to; also art. 35 (DWL/RB/1/278).
  • Reference is made to Richard Langhorne’s questions, published and answered in Baxter’s The certainty of christianity without popery, or, whether the Catholick Protestant, or the Papist have the Surer Faith, 1672 (AGM 70) Cf Rel. iii.99 (§ 213).
  • For Richard Langhorne (c1624-79), barrister and victim of the Popish Plot, see McElligott and ODNB.
  • See also Corr 525, 572, 892 and 896.
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