BIB_ID
192929
Accession number
MA 4415
Creator
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
Display Date
1664 April 5.
Credit line
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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased from Hofmann & Freeman Ltd., 1977.
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..."
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