Reference code
DWL/RB/vii.248
Other numbers
former reference:Treatises, vii.50
Level of description
item
Title
Concerning Original Sin by Gilbert Clerke
Date
19 September 1681
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 196-207 (f 207 is blank), additional foliation ff 1-6 (every other folio).
Dimensions:215 x 152 mm.
Genre/Physical Characteristic:Wm: N in shield?
Scope and content
An epistolary discourse concerning original sin by the Unitarian Gilbert Clerke to Baxter. Not signed: but in the same handwriting as other pieces, among Baxter’s ‘Letters’.
‘Sir I like your words p. 215. Viz; the word imputation as ambiguous I purposely avoid, unlesse where I may explaine it: I use to explaine it thus.’
Finding aids
Argent / Black vii.248 (also listed as vii.50); Thomas p.18
Publication note
- Printed in the Monthly Repository for 1824, xix, 576-580, 726-730. Thomas p 18: Cf letter of same date Letters, i, 48.
- For Gilbert Clerke (1626-97?) see ODNB and Corr 1071, 1078, 1081 and 1082.
- In this Treatise, which is Corr 1082, Clerke wrote with reference to Baxter’s Two disputations of original sin. I. of original sin, as from Adam. II. of original sin, as from our neerer parents(1675).
- Cf letter of same date Letters, i, 48.