Y 134 LIFE OFD RICHARD BAXTER. lawful and. desirable. In the fourth and fifth, I show the lawfulness of some ceremonies, andofa liturgy, and what is unlawful here. "* 29. " The Judgment and Advice of the Associated Ministers of Worcestershire, concerning Mr. John Duryls Endeavors after Ec- clesiastical Peace." 4to. published in 1648. Whatever was done in the Worcestershire Association, Baxter seems to have been the doer of it. Of the occasion of this pamphlet he says, "Mr. John Dury, having spent thirty years in endeavors to reconcile the Lutherans and Calvinists, was now going over sea again in that work, and desired the judgment of our association, how it should be successfully expedited ; which at their desire I drew up more large- ly in Latin, and more briefly in English. The English - letter he printed, as my letter to Mr. Dury for pacification. "t 30. " Universal Concord." 12mo. published in 1658. This was another of his contributions to the cause of catholic communion. " Having been desired," he says, " in the time of our associations, to draw up those terms which all Christian churches may holdcom- munion upon, Ipublished them, though too late forany such use, (till God give men better minds) that the world might see what our religion and terms of communion were ; and that if afterages prove more peaceable, they may have some light from those that went before them."$ 31. "The Grotian Religion discovered, at the Invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce." 12mo. published in 1658. In the Universal Con- cord, he had spoken of Grotius as a concealed Papist, and as hav- ing designeda reunion of the Protestant churches with the church of Rome on the ground of mutual concession ; and had intimated that some were still prosecuting that design. This intimation awakened the wrath of one Mr. Thomas Pierce, who replied by an abusive attack on Baxter and the Puritans, making it, however, his principal business to defend Grotius. To this Baxter respondedin his " Grotian Religion discovered." The controversy seems, to have excited a great interest, as it was in fact an examination of the Popish tendencies ascribed to the Arminian prelatistsofthose days, the followers of Laud. "This book," he says, "the printer abus- ed, printing every section so distant, to fill up paper, as if they had been several chapters." Few authors, in these days, would com- plain ofsuch "abuse." 32. " FourDisputations of Justification." , 4to. published in 1658. This work was designed as a further explanationand defense of his supposed peculiar views on that subject. It was a continuation of the controversy which had grown out of the publication of his Aphorisms. . Narrative, Part I. p. 117. i Ibid. p. 117. t Ibid. p. 119.
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