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estant schoolman, was another prophet 

 of Christian union. Living in a most 

 stormy and trying age, when the spirit 

 of faction ran high, when ecclesiastical 

 fighting was the order of the day, he was 

 the great peacemaker. He spoke in these 

 terms of his disappointment over the re- 

 sult of the Westminster Assembly of 

 Divines. Their scheme was not suffi- 

 ciently comprehensive for him. "The 

 Christian world, since the days of the 

 apostles, has never seen a synod of more 

 excellent divines than this and the synod 

 of Dort. Yet highly as I honor the men 

 I am not of their mind in every part of 

 the government which they would have 

 set up. Some words in their catechism 

 I wish had been more clear, and, above 

 all, I wish that the Parliament and their 

 more skilful hand had done more than was 

 done to heal our breaches, and had hit 

 upon the right way, either to unite with 

 the Episcopalians and Independents, or at 

 least had pitched on terms that are lit for 

 universal concord, and left all to come in 

 upon those terms that would." l Baxter's 



1 Davies, Life of Richard Baxter, Lond. 18S7, pp. 

 101, 102. 



