The government probably hoped that the recollection of past sufferings and the sense of present ease would produce the same effect on him as on Rosewell and Lobb.

The hope was disappointed.

Baxter was neither to be corrupted nor to be deceived.

He refused to join in an address of thanks for the Indulgence, and exerted all his influence to promote good feeling between the Church and the Presbyterians.

[252] If any man stood higher than Baxter in the estimation of the Protestant Dissenters, that man was John Howe.