A VITRIOLIC TRIBUTE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 13

A VITRIOLIC TRIBUTE

The RevL Richard Baxter, to whom a memorial has just been unveiled in a London chnirch, is now generally held in rospect af? the author of "The Saint's Everlasting: Rest/' But it was not ever eo. Far instance, a certain Edward Pettit wrroto thus of his contemporary, Richard Baxter—in hell: "Let him be crowned with wreaths. of serpents , and chaplets of adders Let his triumphant chariot be a pulpit drawn on the wheels of a crannon by a brace of wolves in sheep's clothing. Let the ancient fathers of the Church whom, he has villified; tho re»vercMid and learned prelates whom he tuas belied, abused, and persecuted, let them all bo bound in chains to attend Ids infernal triumph to his ‘Saint’s' Titer lusting Rest;' then make room, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, atheis(s. and politicians, for the greatest rebel on earth, and next to him who fell from lief iven.”