"The line separating Baxter’s proclamation of a gracious but strictly legal covenant from an unabated nomism is a line of pure scholastic logic derived from his study of late medieval thinkers like Scotus, Durandus, and D’Ailly. The covenant must be of grace, since finite man

This is me, Jon McK, and Bede.

“The testimonies of the fathers, which are alleged, deny not that that integrity in Adam was natural: but testify that grace was added to nature, which indeed we [the Reformed] confess and teach very gladly.” — Lucas Trelcatius Jr., A Brief Institution of the Common Places of

F.J. Powicke’s encouragement to a young Geoffrey Nuttall: “Read Baxter; read Baxter; read Baxter. He touches on every point at issue in the seventeenth century, and you will never regret the time spent on him. He has a flowing easy style which makes him pleasant to read, and

"If there be no infant membership in the Christian church, then God has inflicted upon believing Jews the very curse which he threatened against the unbelieving, so far as the children are concerned." —Thomas E. Peck, Notes on Ecclesiology

True.

My friends, the first-edition Baxter book has been secured. It was previously owned by a “Judith Baker” in 1826 (her name is signed on the inside cover). This book was already 132 years old when she owned it!

A poem about old books that a man outside with a typewriter wrote for me.

You can buy all four volumes of Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology for $65 today, by the way.