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    Original Letters and Papers . ( From the Baxter MSS . in Dr . Williams ' s Library . ) , v Account of ^ Baxter ' s Acquaintance with Archbishop Usker , and Agreement with him in Opposition to Owen and others on Fundamentals .

    [ A paper in Baxter ' s hand-writing * , indorsed To Dr . Bates . —A full and interesting account of the framing' of the terms of Toleration hyaCommittee of Oliver Cromwell ' s Parliament , and

    certain divines nominated by them , is given in Baxter ' s Life and Times , L . L Pt . ii . pp . 179 , &e . Baxter there says , he 4 € knew how ticklish a business the enumeration of fundamentals

    was / ' He would have had the brethren offer the Parliament the Creed , Lord ' s Prayer and Decalogue alone , ( A as Essentials or Fundamentals . They objected , * A Socinian or Papist will subscribe all this . " He answered , " So much the better . " ]

    AND here , because some consequents are considerable , I will mention somew * of Mr . Baxter ' s acquaintance vVith B . Usher , y occasions of it and the effects . When Oliver Cromwell was setling himself in his governm * , a forrne called The Instrum of'Governm was drawne up by his friends as a new fundaroentall

    law , according to which hee was to rule . Therein it was decreed y liberty of religion should be given to all who professed faith in God by Jems Christ , excepting Popery and Prelacy ( as being ag y liberty of others : the uniting of w together made some say , if ever they prevaile

    againe , Popery and Prelacy , w you thus unite ag t all y rest , ' will joyne in exclusion of all y rest ) . A Parliament being called to confirme this , they must know how farre profession [ offaith in God by Jesus Christ ] extended . It was voted , y it required

    a profession of all the y { fundamentally of Christianity . Hereupon it was voted by a committee , y divines shold be called to draw up a catalogue of ffundamentalls , y t they might know to whom this liberty did belong . Each

    man was to choose one divine . They chose Dr . Owen , Dr . Cheynell , Mr . Reyner , of Egham , Dr . Goodwin , Mr . Philip Nye , Mr . Sydrach Simpson , Mr . Jesse , Mr . Vines , Mr . Man ton ; aud the Lord Broghill ( afterwards Earle of Orery ) chose A P Usher . The A *>

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    would not come among them for several reasons , ft tit # B dv 3 swthgfc Broghill t ^> choose Mr . ^ t ^^ fcisitead ; which being done , he is seiit for from Kederrninster to London , and lodged w y e Iv Broghili , Bp Usher dwelling

    Jieare , in Martin's Lane , at y Countesse of Peterborough ' s house . They had begun their catalogue of ffundamentalls before Mr . Baxter came up , and voted y * they would not alter w t th <* y had done . Mr . Vinps would not come araonff them till lie heard

    Mr . B . was come . Mr . Baxter thought y y ffunclamentalls of Christianity had bin so long stated in y universall church , ia y generall reception of y Scripture , and y particulars of ye sacramental ! covenant explained in

    y Creed , y Lord's Prayer , and y Decalogue , y that there needed no new catalogue of ffundamentalls ; but y would not be heard . What further proceedings there were about y business , and how it was broken and came

    to nothing , is not here to be mentioned . But , on this occasion , Mr . Baxter becoming acquainted with the B , at last he treated with him about the necessary termes of concord between the Episcopal Divines and y Presbyterians , and such other

    Nonconformists : for you must know y in Wor-p cestershire they had before attempted , and agreed upon an association , in which the Episcopall , Presbyterians * Independents , and the disengaged , consented to termes of love and

    concord in y practising so much of discipline in their parishes , as all y parties were agreed in , ( wch was drawne up , } and forbearing each other in y rest . Westmoreland , and Cumberland , and Essex , and Hampshire ,

    and Wiltshire , and Dorsetshire , quickly imitated them , and made the like association ; and it was going on , and likely to have bin commonly practised , till y return of y B after brake it . And about y time Mr . Baxter had treated also w th Bp Browning and Dr .

    Hammond by letters , and divers others , about y terms of this desired concord . But B Usher and he did most speedily agree . The B owned the terms offered to y King , and before then

    printed , culled The Reduction ofEpis * copacu to the Primitive Forme &c . Mr . Baxter made narrower proposalls , securing , 1 ° , y constitution and administration of particular churches ; 2 ° , ye communion of these by assoeia-

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    Original Letters and Papers from Richard Baxter * MSS . 285 T

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/31/