Reference code
DWL/RB/1/398
Level of description
item
Title
Baxter’s Assize sermon at Shrewsbury
Date
August 1656
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 1-32
Creator
Scope and content
A discourse on the power of magistrates in religion, against those that would not have them to meddle in such matters; being an Assize-Sermon, preached at Shrewsbury, when Coll. Thomas Hunt was Sheriff. By Baxter. The title is taken from the first part of his Autobiography, where Baxter enumerates, in 1664, ‘Manuscripts that are yet unprinted which lye by me.’ (Rel. i.124). At f 28v he describes the drunkenness then prevalent in the town where he dwelt: compare Rel. i.90.
Finding aids
Argent / Black xx.352; Thomas p.26
Publication note
- See Rel. i.124, the unpublished MS. 11.
- For Thomas Hunt (d 1669), MP for Shrewsbury in the Long Parliament, see Corr 325, 331, 332, 337, 339, 378 and 811.
Personal name