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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Puritan divine and author
Baxter (1615-91) appears three times in the diary. In 1660 he turned 45.
A leader of the moderate Puritans, often used the pulpit of an independent congregation that met in Westminster Abbey from 1650 to 1660. Although he used the pulpit, Baxter was never pastor of that congregation.
In 1663, Baxter wrote "Evangelium Armatum" (rough translation, "Arming the Gospel"), subtitled, "A specimen; or short collection of several doctrines & positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical, preached and vetted by the known leaders & abbeters of the pretended reformation, such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall and others etc."
The book is made up of extracts of sermons, mostly those preached before Parliament. Pepys buys the book on 25 April 1663.
-- L&M Index volume, Volume 1 (1660), Volume 4 (1663). There is no item on Baxter in the L&M Companion volume.
David Ross McIrvine Link to this
A Saint
Richard Baxter was one of several Chaplains to Charles II (we've had a recent mention of Dr. Mayne).
"... Charles made several Presbyterian ministers chaplains in ordinary to him, among whom was Baxter. Baxter addressed Parliament on numerous occasions in this capacity. Later, the Lord Chancellor offered him a bishopric which he declined, asking only to be restored to his old charge in Kidderminster."
From Lynell Friessen's life of Richard Baxter at
http://www.lebensquellen.de/download/biography/...
In May of this year (1662), the Act of Uniformity will pass, and Richard Baxter will preach his farewell sermon on May 15th, 1662, some few months before the nonconformists are obliged to keep silence, on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662. He will retire to Acton in Middlesex, and will attend as a member of the congregation his parish church there.