Reference code
DWL/RB/1/252
Level of description
item
Title
A political primer, by Baxter
Date
c 1691
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 296-303 314 x 195 mm.
Creator
Scope and content
A political primer by Baxter which he notes is prompted by the publication of 'Unity Pursued' by John Humfrey. Bater's primer is addressed to 'Nationall Church makers: That Ignorance of errors make them not plagues to Common wellfare, by prinicipling them for Tyranny or Confusion. Written most unwillingly By. Ri: Baxter, constreined by the unresistible Imposition & Importunity of the Author of UNITY PURSUED as a Letter to him.
Includes:
- ‘Chap. 1. Of the Great Designe of the Reverend Epistler.’
- ‘Chap. 4. A Politicall Dictionary of the words used by the Epistler’.
Finding aids
Argent / Black vi.206 (also listed as vi.12); Thomas p.22-23
Publication note
John Humfrey's Union pursued, in a Letter to Mr. Baxter, 1691 by John Humfrey was an answer to Baxter’s Of National Churches, 1691 (AGM 131), dated 26 March
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