Reference code
DWL/RB/1/261
Level of description
item
Title
Baxter’s epistle against the Quakers
Date
October 1675
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 329-337; 300 x 190 mm.
Scope and content
A long letter (or draft of a letter) to William Penn in answer to Penn’s letters of [6]th and 11th October.
Includes: ‘§1 ffinding in these partes many people who avoid the Communion of their neighbor Christians, both Episcopall, presbyterians, Independants, Anabaptists, & all save themselves called Quakers,’
Finding aids
Argent / Baxter vi.215 (also listed a vi.21); Thomas p.
Publication note
- See Collection of the works of William Penn, 1726, pp. 170-171
- Baxter’s One Sheet against the Quakers (1657) received replies from Edward Burrough in Many strong reasons confounded, which would hinder any reasonable man from being a Quaker... But particularly, foure and twenty arguments overturned and confuted; put forth and sent into the world by Richard Baxter (1657) and George Whitehead in his A brief treatise, on the truths behalf in discovery of falshoods which are dispersed abroad in two papers of Richard Baxter … the one intituled, One sheet for the ministry, and the other, A second sheet for the ministry (1658).
- For Edward Burrough (1633-63) see ODNB.
- For George Whitehead (1637-1724) see ODNB and Corr 263.
- See also Rel i, 116.
- For George Keith see DWL/RB/1/51.
- For William Penn see DWL/RB/1/51; 118; 234; 238.
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