[185] All this and much more is said to his honour by Calamy in his funeral sermon.
[186] "In Worcestershire," says Baxter, "they attempted and agreed upon an association, in which Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Independents, and the disengaged, consented to terms of love and concord in the practising so much of discipline in the parishes, as all the parties were agreed in (which was drawn up) and forbearing each other in the 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 been commonly practised, till the return of the bishops after brake it." This is taken from a paper among the Baxter MSS. (Red Cross-street), vol. ii., No. 28.
When Baxter became acquainted with Ussher, he treated with him about terms of union "between Episcopalians and Presbyterians and other Nonconformists."
[187] "This magnificent structure, sharing the common calamity of civil war, the west part thereof was converted into a stable, and the stately new portico into shops for milliners and others, with rooms over them for the convenience of lodging: at the erecting of which the magnificent columns were piteously mangled, being obliged to make way for the ends of beams which penetrated their centres."—Maitland's London, vol. ii. 1165.
[188] Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite.—Baxter's Works, xvii. 80.
The authorities for our account of Baxter are his Life and Times, and the MSS. in Dr. Williams' Library.
[189] Swinnock's Life of Wilson.
[190] Gataker's remarkable book, On the Nature and Use of Different Kinds of Lots, 1619 (in which he maintains that lots are regulated by natural laws) abounds in out of the way learning.
[191] A Discourse Apologetical, wherein Lilies' Lies in his Merlin, or Pasquil for 1654, are laid open.
[192] Gataker's Discours Apologetical, 33-49.—In this amusing history he tells the following story: