Record ID:
192929
Accession number:
MA 4415
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Haliburton Fales, 2nd, and Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, Jr., 1977.
Description:
1 item (6 pages) ; 31.3 x 20.7 cm
Notes:
A transcription is available in the Collection File.
The essay on this letter in British Literary Manuscripts, cited below, indicates this manuscript was written in Acton, Middlesex, "... where Baxter had retired after the passing of the Act of Uniformity of 1662."
Summary:
Being a preface to his "Saints Everlasting Rest" (1649), beginning with the lines "A Preface opening the true state of the controversie...about the Churches Successive or Continued Visibility, & shewing where our Church was before Luther..."
Provenance:
Purchased from Hofmann & Freeman Ltd., 1977.
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