Baxter Men

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“In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
—Variously Ascribed.

The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

“Foolish prater, What dost thou
So early at my window do?
Cruel bird, thou’st ta’en away
A dream out of my arms to-day;
A dream that ne’er must equall’d be
By all that waking eyes may see.
Thou this damage to repair
Nothing half so sweet and fair,
Nothing half so good, canst bring,
Tho’ men say thou bring’st the Spring.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)