Reference code
DWL/RB/X.301
Level of description
item
Title
Extracts from and references to English and foreign authors on divinity
Date
1600-1699
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 1-45, pp 46-83, ff 84-87 (f 1v, f 7v, f 9v, f 11 are blank)
Scope and content
Baxter’s remarks on various points of doctrinal and controversial Divinity; chiefly in shorthand. Includes:
- ‘Justification’ where Clark’s MSS are four times quoted (ff 2-3).
- ‘Justitia Dei Vindicatrix.’ Gilbert’s Vindiciæ (f 10).
- ‘Conversion: Irresistible grace’. Latin arguments, without reference; mixed with shorthand (f 34).
- ‘Infant Baptism’. Thesis, the last article, consists of an unfinished Disputation on the thesis: - ‘An infantes parentum omnium Baptizatorum fidem Profitentium, a Ministris qui ipsis praesident, sint Baptizandi? Affirmatum.’ In shorthand and partly in Latin (f 87).
Finding aids
Argent / Black x.301; Thomas p.25