Reference code
DWL/RB/1/238
Level of description
item
Title
A fragment of Baxter’s controversy with William Penn
Date
October 1675
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 7-10; 295 x 183 mm.
Genre/Physical Characteristic:Arms of Amsterdam
Creator
Scope and content
A fragment of Baxter’s exchange of letters with William Penn, regarding Quakerism. Beginning with a quotation: ‘is an ordinary fearfull swearer; ffor he thus frequently appealeth to the dreadfull God, the searcher of hearts, & to his Judgment, Concerning the truth of what he saith:’ f 10v: ‘If W. Pen largely mind Muggleton of this, may I not desire him to consider it well himselfe: & to be afraid of the sin of Heresie.’
Finding aids
Argent / Black vi.192 (also listed as vi.2); Thomas p.15
Publication note
- For the sequence of the exchange of letters between Baxter and Penn, following the debate on 5 Oct 1675, see Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society, vol. 48, pp 204 ff. See Rel. iii. 110-113.
- See also W Penn The New Witnesses proved Old Hereticks; or information to the Ignorant; in which the doctrines of J Reeve and L Muggleton … are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies, and heresies (1672).
- For William Penn see Corr 979-986.
- For Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-98) see ODNB.
- For John Reeve (1608-58) see ODNB.
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