Baxter on the stature and failure of the Westminster Assembly

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Richard Baxter penned one of the highest praises of the gifts of the members of the Westminster Assembly of Divines (along with that of Dort). "as far as I am able to judge by the information of all history of that kind, and by any evidences left us, the Christian world, since the days of the apostles, had never a synod of more excellent divines (taking one thing with another) that this [Assembly at Westminster] and the Synod of Dort."

As for the failure of the assembly to come to an agreement on settling the church of England, while strongly faulting the inflexibility of all sides, Baxter laid the severest blame on the intransigence of the Congregationalists, who preferred to rend Christ's garments "all to pieces, rather than it should want [lack] their lace."
Cited in Rowland Ward's Introduction in The Grand Debate (the debate papers that passed between the Presbyterians and Congregationalists of the Westminster Assembly) (Naphtali Press, 2014), LV, LVI. http://www.naphtali.com/store/products/the-westminster-assemblys-grand-debate/
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