BRADFORD OR BAXTER?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the issue of The Spectator of some weeks ago, there was the phrase : " There but for the Grace of God goes . . ."
For some weeks, in the columns of the Statesman of Calcutta, there has been a vast amount of correspondence about the author of these words. Relying upon a reference in a very old issue of The Spectator, I put forward the name of Diehard Baxter, the author of the " Saint's Everlasting Rest." But a large number of other claimants have been put forward. I cannot for the moment produce an extract from the actual biography or history in which the incident is recorded. I would be grateful to any of your readers for the name of the [The general consensus of authority attributes the phrase to John Bradford. But it is sometimes ascribed to Baxter, Bunyan and Wesley among others.—En. The Spectator].
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