The Richard Baxter treatises are here catalogued for the first time
with clear summaries of their content, affording rich opportunities
for research. Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was among the most
prominent English nonconformist divines. Baxter found common ground
with the Puritans but sought unity among Protestants in general. A
highly independent thinker, he had opinions - andoften expressed
them - about every major controversy in England during his
lifetime. He wrote over 140 published works, among them long,
controversial discourses on doctrine but also polemical works
against Quakers, Baptists andRoman Catholics, among others. Baxter
found himself a peacemaker during the English Civil Wars: a
chaplain for the parliamentary army, he also supported the
restoration of the king. As a moderate, Baxter was a target for
both extremes. He eventually registered himself as 'a meer
Nonconformist', breaking with the Church of England because of his
opposition to its form of episcopacy. He suffered bouts of
imprisonment for his religious views and conduct during the reigns
of Charles II and James II. Dr Williams's Library, London contains
most of Baxter's extant manuscripts, including several 'volumes' of
his unpublished 'Treatises', numbering roughly 369 items in total.
The volumes,ranging from the 1630s to 1690s, consist of tracts,
disputations, sermons, exercises, letters, miscellaneous papers and
drafts, some of which were later incorporated into Baxter's
published autobiographical writings, ReliquiaeBaxterianae (1696).
The treatises themselves, however, have been largely overlooked.
Here, they are catalogued with clear summaries of their content,
and they afford rich opportunities for research. This catalogue,
the firstdetailed listing and description for 150 years, provides a
physical description and a scholarly outline of each treatise. A
comprehensive introduction sets these papers in context. ALAN
ARGENT is Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Library, London and
minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Brixton. He has written
a biography of Elsie Chamberlain, a history of Congregationalism in
the twentieth century and has edited The Angels' Voice for the
London Record Society. His 2016 Friends of Dr Williams's Library
lecture Dr Williams's Library 1729-1793 - 'a good library, under
the direction of the dissenters' was published in 2017. He is
preparing a history of Dr Williams's Library and Trust 1716-2016.
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