Means of uniting Protestant Ministers

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  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/57
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises ii.47
  • Dates of Creation
      1673-1674
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
      ff 291-292 (f 291v and f 292r are blank). 288 x 218 mm.

Scope and Content

The latter part of Baxter’s papers drawn up for Lord Orrery, with Bishop Morley’s remarks thereon. This treatise refers to the Earl of Orrery’s desire that Baxter draw up those terms which he believed might unite Protestant nonconformists with conformists against Roman Catholicism. Baxter refers to Bishop Morley’s strictures at his terms as “deceitful snares”. This is item Treatises 283 continued, written in an unknown hand, with Bishop Morley’s answers (so endorsed by Baxter and the answers apparently in Morley’s hand.) Cf Rel. Appendix. 121 (§ xiii).

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black ii.47; Thomas p.13

Bibliography

  • See Rel. iii. 110-113.
  • On Baxter's dispute with Morley see Corr 937, 942 and Rel iii, 109-140, 156-160. The ill feeling between Baxter and Morley continued and led to the latter’s publication The Bishop of Winchester’s vindication of himself from divers false, scandalous and injurious reflexions made upon him by Mr. Richard Baxter in several of his writings (1683).
  • After Baxter’s death, Archbishop Tillotson wrote of Morley’s “misrepresentation” of Baxter. See Corr 1260.
  • For Roger Boyle (1621-79), Baron Broghill and first Earl of Orrery, see Corr 209, 214, 264, 462, 937, 942, 1184, 1213, Rel ii, 229, iii, 51 and ODNB.
  • For George Morley (c 1598-1684), Bishop of Worcester, and of Winchester from 1662, see WR, Corr 292, 309, 581, 687, 692, 693, 697, 698, 702, 731, 780, 842, 937, 942, 967, 996, 1028, 1034, 1064, 1068, 1093, 1260, ODNB and Rel. ii. 374.