Report of the conference between Baxter and John Tombes on infant baptism

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/59
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises ii.49
  • Dates of Creation
      1649-1650
  • Physical Description
      ff 328-365 (f 328 and f 365r are blank). 185 x 150 mm. Other pagination p. 1-72

Scope and Content

Verbatim report of the conference between Baxter and [John] Tombes on infant baptism. (pp. 72) in quarto written in a neat, small hand: within a wrapper of old music-paper, ruled with six lines.

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black ii.49; Thomas p.6

Bibliography

  • Baxter’s own arguments were enlarged and published in his Plain Scripture Proof ( 1651. quarto), which reflects on infants, church-membership and baptism and carried prefaces to the churches at Kidderminster and Bewdley. Henry Danvers, Henry Haggar, William Kaye and John Tombes all replied to it.
  • For Henry Danvers (born in or before 1619-87/8) see Corr 952, 953, 957, 970, 973, 987, 988, 991 and 997.
  • For Henry Haggar and William Kaye (or Keye) see Corr 148.
  • For John Tombes (1602/3-76) see ODNB , CR and Corr 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 36, 37, 42, 51, 62, 63, 66, 69, 70, 115, 128, 139, 154, 189, 203, 231, 232, 233, 237, 241, 248, 483, 491, 493, 576, 584, 585, 589, 604, 607, 611, 613, 614, 616, 774, 798, 799, 813, 816, 895, 903, 953, 960, 988, 991 and 1181.
  • For Thomas Baldwin (d1693) of Wolverley and Chaddesley Corbett, who lived with Baxter at Kidderminster and assisted him see CR, Corr, 64, 68, 120, 238, 250, 262, 273, 299, 355, 378, 406, 413, 439, 507, 522, 524, 691, 730, 777, 779, 799, 800, 845, 946, 1064 and Rel i, 114, iii, 92
  • See also Rel. i, 109.