Reference code
DWL/RB/iii.63 (a)
Level of description
item
Title
Baxter’s 'The poor husbandman’s advocate to rich racking landlords'
Date
18 October 1691
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 154-171 (f 155v is blank), 300 x 190 mm.
Creator
Scope and content
Baxter writing under the pseudonym Gildas Salvianus and appealing 'To the Lords, Knights & Gentlemen of England' to give generously to the poor. Comprises seven chapters and prefatory remarks. In Baxter's own hand. The author urges his readers to believe in "Christ who assureth them that by what they faithfully give to the poore, they give incomparably more to themselves, as giving it to him that will reward them".
Finding aids
Argent / Black iii.63(a); Thomas p 24
Publication note
Printed in Bulletin of John Rylands Library, Jan. 1926, ed F J Powicke (AGM 141). See also Corr 1259 and 1032.
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