Baxter's aquaintaince with Archbishop Usher

Scope and Content

Paper reflecting on Baxter's acquaintance with Archbishop Ussher; written by Baxter in the third person.

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black ii.28; Thomas p.25

Custodial History

Other foliation (not in the original MS) ff 415-6

Bibliography

  • "Printed in Monthly Repository, xx, 287-289. For Baxter’s acquaintance with Ussher see Baxter’s preface to his A Call to the Unconverted (1658).
  • For James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (1581-1656), whom Baxter held in high regard and who advocated a ‘reduced’ episcopacy in order to reconcile Presbyterians and episcopalians, see Corr 77, 83, 109, 111, 143, 204, 242, 254, 296, 317, 324, 347, 409, 441, 449, 516, 523, 530, 545, 581, 611, 644, 743A, 828, 876, 899, 905, 937, 1028, 1060 McElligott and ODNB.
  • William Bates (1625-99) was among Baxter’s most trusted friends (Rel. ii 301, 303, 364) and preached his funeral sermon, A funeral-sermon for the reverend, holy and excellent divine, Mr. Richard Baxter, who deceased Decemb. 8. 1691. With an account of his life (1692). For Bates see Corr 439, 449, 461,462, 469, 500, 513, 518, 527, 586, 623, 638, 661, 707, 718, 727, 737, 757, 760, 795, 824, 916, 939, 967, 998, 999, 1011, 1019, 1029, 1106, 1109, 1125, 1177, ODNB and CR