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| "Four or five years ago a number of admirers of this famous old divine raised a subscription to defray the cost of a statue to be erected as a memorial of him in the busy town of Kidderminster, of which place he held the vicarage during nearly twenty years, between 1641 and 1660. Baxter's loyalty to the Church and King was not strong enough to prevent him from sympathizing with the Parliament during the Civil War, though he bravely withstood Cromwell to the face when the latter was declared Protector. After the Restoration the Uniformity Act drove Baxter from the Church into the ranks of the Nonconformists, and in this character he became one of the victims of the detestable Judge Jeffries, who fined and imprisoned him. Before this he settled in London, and used to preach at Pinner's Hall and in a chapel in Fetter Lane. His two principal books, "The Saints' Everlasting Rest" and "A Call to the Unconverted" are still popular among a certain class of readers. This characteristic statue - larger than life size - by Mr. Brock one of the late J.H. Foley's clever pupils, was erected in 1875." (Art Journal 1877) | |||||
