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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
Rich. Baxters Apology Against the ModestExceptions of Mr T. Blake, and the Digression of Mr G. Kendall. Whereunto is added Animadversions on a late Dissertation of Ludiomaeus Colvinus, alias, Ludovicus Molinaeus, M. Dr. Oxon. and an Admonition of Mr W. Eyre of Salisbury, with Mr Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr Caryl (London 1654) contains, besides the five main parts indicated in the title, a number of dedicatory epistles, prefaces and postscripts, some of them with and some without dates. In the following analysis of the work an attempt is made to elucidate its manifold occasion and the order in which the various pieces included in it were written, with the approximate dates of their composition.
page 69 note 1 For Owen, see Dict. Nat. Biog.; Calamy Revised, ed. Matthews, A. G. (Oxford 1934)Google Scholar.
page 69 note 2 Rich. Baxters Apology, Part I, Preface. Baxter did, however, later reply to Owen in Rich. Baxter's Confession (1655).
page 69 note 3 For Blake, see D.N.B.
page 69 note 4 Apology, Part I, Preface.
page 69 note 5 For Tombes, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 69 note 6 Catalogue of the Pamphlets … collected by George Thomason, 1640–1661 (London 1908), ii. 3Google Scholar.
page 69 note 7 Rector of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and a licenser for printing books of divinity: see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 70 note 1 Thomas Blake, The Covenant Sealed (1655), ‘Postscript to Reverend and Learned Master Baxter’, Introduction, p. 548.
page 70 note 2 Apology, Part I, Preface. 8 Ibid.
page 70 note 4 I.e. Ἀπολτρωσις Ἀπολυτρώσɛως, or Redemption Redeemed (1651), by John Goodwin, Vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, London, for whom see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 70 note 5 For Kendall, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 70 note 6 Apology, Part I, Preface. Baxter makes the same complaint in a letter of 21 November 1653 to Peter Ince, Rector of Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, in Dr. Williams's Library, Baxter MSS., 59.1.11: ‘it hath cost me 3 or 4 years labour mainly, to write private replies to the animadversions of many brethren … nor is it a very easy labour to me to sit writing most nights till 9 o'clock.’ For access to these MSS., and for permission to publish extracts (with spelling modernized), I have to thank Dr. Williams's Librarian.
page 70 note 7 Apology, Part III, Preface.
page 70 note 8 For Du Moulin, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 71 note 1 Apology, Part III, Preface.
page 71 note 2 Ibid., In Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696), ed. M. Sylvester, i. 110, Baxter states explicitly, ‘As for Ludiomaeus Colvinus, it is Ludovicus Molinaeus’, and describes Du Moulin as ‘one of those Friends who are injurious to the Honour of their own Understandings by overvaluing me’.
page 71 note 3 Apology, Part IV, Preface.
page 71 note 4 For Eyre, see Cal. Rev.
page 71 note 5 For Woodbridge, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 71 note 6 Catalogue, ii. 43.
page 71 note 7 Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640–1708 A.D. (London 1913), i. 434.
page 72 note 1 I.e. Samuel Fisher, Baby-Baptism Meer Babism (1653).
page 72 note 2 I.e. Henry Haggar, The Foundation of the Font Discovered (1653).
page 72 note 3 I.e. William Kaye, Baptism Without Bason (1653); entered in the Stationers' Registers on 21 October 1653 (Transcript, i. 432).
page 72 note 4 For this letter, sec p. 68, n. 6, supra. For Ince, see Cat. Rev.
page 72 note 5 Apology, Part IV, Preface.
page 72 note 6 Ibid.
page 72 note 7 D.W.L., Baxter MSS., 59.4.176.
page 72 note 8 Ibid., 59.4.179.
page 72 note 9 Ibid., 59.6.133.
page 72 note 10 Ibid., 59.3.163.
page 73 note 1 For Caryl, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 73 note 2 Catalogue, ii. 54.
page 73 note 3 D.W.L., Baxter MSS., 59.6.157. ‘I bless God’, Bartlett adds, ‘that you have so cleared the truth, and with so mild terms.’ In another undated letter which on other grounds may also be attributed to January 1654, Henry Osland, Curate of Bewdley, wrote: ‘I read over your papers before I slept, and bless God that they are so brotherly penned, with so meek language and so sharp judgement. I am sorry only you have engaged yourself so oft to answer Mr. Crandon’ (ibid., 59.5.53). For Osland, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev. (as Oasland).
page 73 note 4 Apology, Part V., 12.
page 73 note 5 Ibid., 13.
page 73 note 6 For Taylor, see Rel. Baxt., iii. 179; R. Baxter, Plain Scripture Proof (3rd edn. 1653), pref. and p. 210 ; D.W.L., Baxter MSS., 59.13.210, pr. by F. J. Powicke, Life of … Baxter (1924), App. 7; W. A. Shaw, Hist, of Eng. Church … 1640–1660 (1900), ii. 403; D.N.B., s.v. his son, Silas Domville, alias Taylor (with whom earlier writers confuse him).
page 74 note 1 For Whalley, see D.N.B.
page 74 note 2 Apology, Part V, Preface.
page 74 note 3 Rel. Baxt., L 110 f.
page 74 note 4 Apology, Part V, Preface.
page 74 note 5 Ibid.
page 75 note 1 Rel. Baxt., i. 110.
page 75 note 2 Apology, Part V, Preface; cf. Rel. Baxt., iii. 89 of Baxter's The Church Told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaws Scandals (1672): ‘And about the Day that it came out, Mr. Bagshaw died (a Prisoner, though not in Prison:) Which made it grievous to me to think that I must seem to write against the Dead. While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying and passing to the World that will decide all our Controversies.’
page 75 note 3 For Hoyle, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church, see D.N.B.; for Wilkinson, also a Canon of Christ Church, see D.N.B.; Cal. Rev.
page 75 note 4 Rel. Baxt., i. 110.
page 76 note 1 Apology, Part II, Postscript following p. 144.
page 76 note 2 Rel. Baxt., i. 110; cf. 206.
page 76 note 3 Catalogue, ii. 70.
page 76 note 4 Rel. Baxt., i. 111; for Blake's reply, see p. 68, n. 1, supra.
page 76 note 5 Rel. Baxt., i. 111.
page 76 note 6 For Crisp, see D.N.B.
