Baxter’s remarks on a Dialogue by Isaac Chauncy

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/268
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises vii.27 Treatises vii.221(1)
  • Dates of Creation
      1684
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
      ff 5-11; 293 x 186 mm.

Scope and Content

Baxter’s examination of a book treated, by way of dialogue, on the nature of ecclesiastical government, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the Christian ministry.

Includes: ‘§1 This booke is considerable 1˚ as to the Manner 2˚ as to the matter. I put the Manner first because it is fitted partly to conceale the matter, & partly to deceive the reader on pretense of opening it.’

Note

Black supposes the book so treated to be Isaac Chauncy’s On Baxter’s Treatises (1684).

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black vii.221(1) (also listed as vii.27); Thomas p.25

Bibliography

  • Chauncy’s A Theological Dialogue containing a defence and justification of Dr John Owen from the forty-two errors charged upon him by Mr Richard Baxter was published in 1684. Later in the same year Chauncy published The Second Part of the Theological Dialogue being a rejoinder to Mr Richard Baxter.
  • For Isaac Cha(u)ncy (1632-1712) see Corr 1201, CR and ODNB.
  • See also Rel iii, 196ff.