BAXTER I ANS

In Ecclesiastical History, a name applied to those English theologians who adopted the sentiments of Richard Baxter on the subject of grace and free will, forming a sort of middle way between Calvin ism and Arm in i an ism. They never formed, strictly speaking, a sect, and the name is now disused: neverthele , similarly modified religious opinions are common among nonconformists at this day. [s. 151]