WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE 
 SAVED. 
 
 RICHARD BAXTER. 
 
 Edited by the 
 REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, 
 
 LIVERPOOL. 
 
 " The noble Lord William Russell who dy'd for the liberty of his Country, a 
 little before his death, by a trusty messenger, sent Mr Baxter his hearty thanks for 
 this book ['Dying Thoughts'] which had made him better acquainted with the 
 other world than he was before, and not a little contributed to his relief and sup- 
 port, and to the fitting him for what he was to go through." — Calamy [Account, 
 Vol. L, p. 420.] 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 1868. 
 
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 1^3 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The tractate by Baxter herein re-printed in a limited private 
 edition, was unknown to Calamy, and also escaped his best Bio- 
 grapher — Orme, as well as Darling, in his "Cyclopaedia BibHo- 
 graphica." My copy was formerly in the celebrated Library of Dr 
 Philip Bliss of Oxford. It is bound richly in morocco, and marked 
 by him as "not in the Bodleian Catalogue, 1843." Another copy is 
 in the British Museum Library : but I have not met with any mention 
 of it elsewhere. As a book it is among the rarest of Baxter's, and I 
 have heard of prices being given for it recently, that recall the Biblio- 
 mania days of the Roxburghe Sale. Intrinsically it is packed with 
 "judicious" thought, and has all its saintly author's best character- 
 istics, being scriptural, fervent to passion of entreaty, pungent, pointed, 
 unmistakable : withal it is pure "Bread of Life" for the humblest. 
 I give the text with scrupulous fidelity, and have added a few slight 
 foot-notes. The original title-page will be found on the opposite 
 page. May all to whom the little book comes "be saved," and by 
 His mercy evidence it here in a "holy life !" 
 
 A. B. G. 
 
 Liverpool. 
 
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 Crawford & M'Cabe, Printers, 7 George Street, Edinburgh. 
 
THE 
 
 Grand Question 
 Resolved. 
 
 WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE 
 
 SAVED: 
 
 INSTRU CTIONS 
 
 FOR A 
 
 l^olg Htfe. 
 
 The late reverend Divine 
 MR RICHARD BAXTER. 
 
 Reco7nmended to the Bookseller a few days before his deaths to be 
 immediately printed for the good of souls. 
 
 Acts xvi. 30. Sirs ! What shall I do to be saved? 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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 and Three Crowns, Cheapside. 1692. [12°] 
 
 Collation: Title-page and pp. 46. 
 
 
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 THE GREAT CASE RESOLVED, 
 
 HOW TO BE CERTAINLY SAVED. 
 Instructions for a f^olg 3Ltfe, 
 
 I. THE NECESSITY, REASON, AND MEANS OF HOLINESS. 
 II. THE PARTS AND PRACTICE OF A HOLY LIFE. 
 
 For personal direction and for family instruction, 
 short Catechisms and Prayers. 
 
 With two 
 
 Reader, 
 
 IGNORANT persons cannot remember long and 
 many words, nor understand a brief style and 
 few words. This maketh it impossible to write 
 
 a Catechism that shall not be unsuitable either to the 
 understanding or the memory of such. I must therefore 
 desire the Teacher to make up the unavoidable defect, by 
 opening the meaning, — especially of the Catechisms, — to 
 the children and servants, when they have learned and 
 say the words. Read the Instructions often to them and 
 press all as you go, on their affections. For the bare words 
 without a present guide may else be all lost. 
 
 I. The necessity, reason, and means of Holiness. 
 
 1. To keep up the resolutions of the converted. And 
 
 2. To instruct those in families that need them. 
 Though the saving of souls be a matter of inexpres- 
 sible importance,* yet — the Lord have mercy upon them ! 
 — what abundance are there that think it not worthy of 
 their serious enquiry, nor the reading of a good book, one 
 
 * Mark viii. 36: Matthew vi. 33: Job xxi. 14, and xxii. 17: Psalm i. 2, 3, and 
 xiv. 12. 
 
 181536 
 
6 Instructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 hour in a week ! For the sake of these careless slothful 
 sinners, I have here spoken much in a little room, that 
 they may not refuse to read and consider so short a lesson, 
 unless they think their souls worth nothing. Sinner ! As 
 thou wilt shortly answer it before God, deny not to God, 
 to thyself and me, the sober pondering and faithful practis- 
 ing these few directions : — 
 
 I. Begin at home, and know thyself Consider what it 
 is to be a man."^ Thou art made a nobler creature than the 
 brutes. They serve thee, and are governed by thee ; and 
 death ends all their pains and pleasures. But thou hast 
 reason to rule thyself and them ; to know thy God, and 
 foresee thy end, and know thy way, and do thy duty. Thy 
 reason, and free-will, and executive power, are part of the 
 image of God upon thy nature : so is thy dominion over 
 the brutes, as, under him, thou art their owner, their ruler, 
 and their end. But thy holy wisdom, and goodness, and 
 ability, is the chief part of his image on which thy happi- 
 ness depends. Thou hast a soul that cannot be satisfied 
 in knowing, till thy knowledge reach to God himself :t nor 
 can it be disposed by any other ; nor can it or the socie- 
 ties of the world, be well governed according to its nature, 
 without regard to his sovereign authority and without the 
 hopes and fears of joy and misery hereafter ;J nor can it 
 be happy § in anything but seeing and loving and de- 
 lighting in this God as he is revealed in the other world. 
 And is this nature given thee in vain ? If the nature of all 
 things be fitted to its use and end, || then it must be so 
 with thine. 
 
 II. By knowing thyself then, thou must needs know 
 that there is a God\ IT and that he is thy maker and infinite 
 in all perfections ; and that he is thy Owner, thy Ruler 
 
 * Psalm viii. 4-6 : Genesis i. 26, 27 : ix. 6 : Col. iii. 10. 
 t John xvii. 3 : i John iv. 6, 7 : Jeremiah ix. 24. 
 X Luke xii. 4, 5. § Psalm xvi. 5-1 1. II Isaiah xlv. 18. 
 
 ^ Psalm xiv. i : Genesis i. i : Revelation i. 8 : Romans i. 19, 20: Psalm xlvi. 10 : ix. 
 10: c. andxxiii. : xix. 1-3: xlvii. 7: Ezekiel xviii. 4: Genesis xviii. 25: Malachi i. 6. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 7 
 
 and thy Felicity or End. He is mad that seeth not that 
 such creatures have a cause or maker : and that all the 
 power and wisdom and goodness of the world, is caused 
 by a power and wisdom and goodness which is greater 
 than that of all the world. And who can be our Owner 
 but he that made us ? And who can be our highest Go- 
 vernor but our Owner, whose infinite power wisdom and 
 goodness maketh him only fit thereto ? And if he be our 
 Governor, he must needs have laws, with rewards for the 
 good and punishments for the bad ; and must judge and 
 execute accordingly. And if he be our" chiefest Bene- 
 factor, and all that we have is from him, and all our hope 
 and happiness is in him, nothing can be more clear than 
 that the very nature ol man doth prove that in hope of 
 future happiness, he should absolutely assign himself to 
 the will and disposal of this God, and that he should 
 absolutely obey him,^' and that he should love and serve 
 him with all his power : it being impossible to love, obey 
 and please that God too much who is thus our cause, our 
 end, our all. 
 
 III. By knowing thus thyself and God, it is easy to 
 know what primitive holiness and godliness is. Even this 
 hearty, entire and absolute resignation of the soul to God, 
 as the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness : as our 
 Creator, our Owner, Governor, and Felicity or P2nd : fully 
 submitting to his disposal, obeying his laws, in hope of 
 his promised rewards and fear of his threatened punish- 
 ments : and loving and delighting in himself and all his 
 appearances in the world : and desiring and seeking the 
 endless right and enjoyment of him in heavenly glory, 
 and expressing these affections in daily prayer, thanks- 
 giving and praise. This is the use of all thy faculties, the 
 end and business of thy life, the health and happiness of 
 
 * Matthew xxii. 37 : Jeremiah v. 22 : 2 Corinthians v. 8,9: Titus ii. 14 : 
 2 Corinthians viii. 5, and vi. 16-18: 1 Peter ii. 9: Psalm 10: xxxvii. 4: xl. 8: 
 Colossians iii. i, 2: Matthew vi. 20, 21: 2 Cor. iv, 17, i8. 
 
8 Instructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 thy soul. This is that hoHness or godliness which God 
 doth so much call for. 
 
 IV. And by this it is easy to know what a state of sin 
 and ungodliness is."^ Even the want of all this holiness, 
 and the setting of carnal self instead of God. When men 
 are proudly great and wise and good in their own eyes, 
 and would dispose of themselves and all their concern- 
 ments, and would rule themselves and please themselves, 
 according to the fleshly appetite and fancy : and there- 
 fore love most the pleasures and profits and honours of 
 the world as the provision to satisfy the desires of the 
 flesh : and God shall be no further loved, obeyed, or 
 pleased than the love of fleshly pleasures will give leave, 
 nor shall have anything but what the flesh can spare : 
 this is a wicked, a carnal, an ungodly state ; though it 
 break forth in various ways of sinning. 
 
 V. By this, experience may tell you, that all men'\ — yea 
 all till grace renew them — are in this ungodly miserable 
 state: though only the Scripture tells us how this came to 
 pass. Though all are not fornicators nor drunkards nor 
 extortioners nor persecutors nor live not in the same way 
 of sinning ; yet selfishness and pride and sensuality and 
 the love of worldy things, ignorance and ungodliness are 
 plainly become the common corruption of the nature of 
 man ; so that their hearts are turned to the world from 
 God, and filled with impiety, filthiness and injustice ; and 
 their reason is but a servant to their senses ; and their 
 mind and love and lip is carnal;:}: and this carnal mind is 
 enmity to the holiness of God, and cannot be subject to 
 his law. This corruption is hereditary, and is become, as 
 it were, a nature to us, being the mortal malady of all our 
 natures. And it is easy to know that such an unholy, 
 wicked nature, must needs be loathsome to God and unfit 
 
 • Psalm xiv : i : Hebrews xii : 14 : Romans viii. 12, 13 : John iii. 34 : v. 6 : 
 I John ii, 15, 16 : Romans xiii. 14, 15 : vi. 16: Luke xviii. 23 : xiv. 26, 33. 
 t Romans iii : Psalm 14 : Ephes. ii, 2, 3 : Romans v. 12, 17, 39 : John iii, 6. 
 X Romans viii. 5, 6, 7. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. ^ 9 
 
 for the happy enjoyment of his love, either here or in the Hfe 
 to come :* for what communion hath Hght with darkness ? 
 
 VI. Hence then it is easy to see what grace is 7teedful 
 to a maji's salvatmi. So odious a creature, such an un- 
 thankful rebel that is turned away from God and set 
 against him, and defiled with all this filth of sin, must 
 needs be both renewed and reconciled, t sanctified and 
 pardoned, if ever he will be saved. To love God and be 
 beloved by him and to be delighted herein, in the might of 
 his glory, is the heaven and happiness of souls : and all this 
 is contrary to an unholy state. Till men have new and 
 holy hearts, they can neither see God nor love him nor 
 delight in him nor take him for their chief content : for 
 the flesh and world have their delight and love. And till 
 sin be pardoned, % and God is reconciled to the soul, what 
 joy or peace can it expect from him whose nature and 
 justice engage th him to loathe and punish it ? 
 
 VII. And experience will tell you how insufficient you 
 are for either of these two works yourselves : || /<? renew your 
 souls or to reco7icile them unto God. Will a nature that is 
 carnal resist and overcome the flesh and abhor the sin 
 which it most dearly loveth ? will a wordly mind overcome 
 the world ? when custom hath rooted your natural corrup- 
 tions, are these easily rooted up ? O how great and hard 
 a work is it to cause a blind unbelieving sinner to set his 
 heart on another world and lay up all his hopes in heaven, 
 and to cast off all the things he seeth for that God and 
 glory which he never saw. And for a hardened, worldly, 
 fleshly heart to become wise and tender and holy and 
 heavenly, and abhor the sin which it most fondly loveth ! 
 And what can we do to satisfy justice and reconcile such 
 a rebel soul to God ? 
 
 VIII. Nature and experience having thus acquainted 
 
 * Psalm iv. 3 : 2 Corinthians vi. 14, 17. 
 
 t Psalm xxxii. i, 2 : i Corinthians vi. 11 : Titus ii. 14 : iii. 5-7 : Hebrews xiv. 14 : 
 Matthew v. 8. % Romans v. 1-3. 
 
 II Psalm xcvii. 7, 8, 15 : i Corinthians ii. 11, 21 : Hebrews xiv. 12 : 2 Peter i. 3. 
 
lo Instructions Jor a Holy Life. 
 
 you with your sin and misery, and what you want, will 
 further tell you that God ''^ doth not yet deal with you ac- 
 cording to your deserts. He giveth you life, and time, and 
 mercies, when your sins had forfeited all these. He 
 obligeth you to repent and-tum unto him. And therefore 
 experience telling you that there is some hope, and that 
   God hath found out some way of shewing mercy to the 
 children of wrath, reason will command you to enquire 
 of all that are fit to teach you what way of remedy God 
 hath made known. And as you very soon discover that 
 the religion of heathens and Mahometans is so far from 
 shewing the true remedy that they are part of the disease 
 itself: so you may learn that a wonderful Person t the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, hath undertaken the office of being the 
 Redeemer and Saviour of the world : and that he who is 
 the eternal Word and Wisdom of the Father, hath wonder- 
 fully appeared in the nature of man, which he took from 
 the virgin Mary, being conceived by the Holy Ghost : and 
 that we might have a Teacher sent from Heaven % infalli- 
 bly and easily to acquaint the world with the will of God 
 and the unseen things of life eternal : how God bare witness 
 of the Truth by abundant, open and uncontrolled mira- 
 cles :|| how he conquered Satan and the world, § and gave 
 us an example of perfect righteousness^ and underwent 
 the scorn and cruelty of sinners, and suffered the death of 
 the cross as a sacrifice for our sins to reconcile us unto 
 God : how he rose again the third day and conquered 
 death, and lived forty days longer on earth, instructing his 
 apostles and giving them commission to preach the Gospel 
 to all the world, and then ascended bodily into heaven. 
 
 * Acts xiv. 27 and xvii. 24-28 : Romans i. 19, 20 : Romans ii, 4 : Job xxxlii. 
 14-25 : Matthew xii. 42, 43. 
 
 t Isaiah ix. 6, 7, and liii : John Hi. 16, 19, and i. 3, 4, and iii. 2. 
 
 X John i. 18. II Acts ii. 22 : Hebrews ii. 3, 4. § Matthew iv. 
 
 1" I Peter ii. 22-25: Matthew: xxvi. 27-28 : Acts i. : Hebrews iv: Ephesians i. 
 22, 23: Romans v. i, 3, 9: Hebrews viii. 9, 13, and viii. 6, 7: Hebrews vii. 25: 
 1 John V. 10, 12 : John v. 22, and iii. 18, 19: Matthew xxv. 
 
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 The Great Case Resolved. ii 
 
 while they gazed after him : how he is now in heaven, 
 both God and man in one Person, the Teacher and King 
 and High-priest of his Church. Of him must we learn the 
 way of life : by him must we be ruled as the physician of 
 souls. All power is given him in heaven ancj in earth. 
 By his sacrifice and merits and intercession must we be 
 pardoned and accepted with the Father : and only by him 
 must we come to God. He hath procured and established 
 a covenant of grace, which baptism is the seal of: Even 
 that God will in him be our God and reconciled Father, 
 and Christ will be our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost will be 
 our Sanctifier, if we will unfeignedly consent; that is if 
 penitently and believingly we give up ourselves to God the 
 Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in these resolutions. This 
 covenant in the tenor of it is a deed of gift, of Christ 
 and pardon and salvation to all the world : if by true faith 
 and repentance they will turn to God. And this shall be 
 the law according to which he will judge all that hear it 
 at the last: for he is made the judge of all, and will raise 
 all the dead, and justify his saints and judge them unto 
 endless joy and glory, and condemn the unbelievers, im- 
 penitent and ungodly,^ unto endless misery. The soul 
 alone is judged at death, and body and soul at the resur- 
 rection. This Gospel the apostles preached to the world ; 
 and that it might be effectual to man's salvation, the Holy 
 Ghost was first given to inspire the preachers of it,t and 
 enable them to speak in various languages, and infallibly 
 to agree in One, and to work many great and open miracles 
 to prove their word to those they preached to. And by 
 this means they planted the Church; J which ordinary 
 ministers must increase and teach and oversee, to the end 
 of the world, till all the elect be gathered in. And the 
 same Holy Spirit hath undertaken it as His work || to 
 accompany this Gospel and by it to convert men's souls, 
 
 * Luke xvi. t Acts ii : Jolin xvii. 23. 
 
 X Matthew xxviii. 19, 20: Acts xiv, 23: Acts xx : xxvi. 17, 18. J Romans viii. 9. 
 
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 illuminating and sanctifying them; and by a secret re- 
 generation '^ to renew their natures and bring them to that 
 knowledge and obedience and love of God which is the 
 primitive holiness for which we were created and from which 
 we fell. And thus by a Saviour and a Sanctifier must all 
 be reconciled and renewed that will be glorified with God 
 in heaven. All this you may learn from the Sacred 
 Scriptures which were written by the inspiration of the 
 Holy Spirit t and sealed by multitudes of open miracles, J 
 and contain the very image and superscription of God, and 
 have been received and preserved by the Church as the 
 certain word of God, and blessed by him through all 
 generations, to the sanctifying of many souls. 
 
 IX. When you understand all this it is time for you to 
 look home || and understand now what state your souls 
 are in. That you were made capable of holiness and 
 happiness, you know : that you and all men are fallen 
 from God and holiness and happiness unto self and sin 
 and misery, you know : that you are so far redeemed by 
 Christ, you know, as to have a pardoning and saving 
 covenant tendered you, and Christ and mercy offered to 
 your choice. But whether you are truly penitent believers 
 and renewed by the Holy Ghost and so united unto 
 Christ, this is the question yet unresolved, this is the work 
 that is yet to do, without which there is no salvation, and 
 if thou die before it is done, woe to thee that ever thou 
 wast a man ! Except a man be regenerated by the Spirit § 
 and converted and made a new creature, and of carnal be 
 made spiritual, and of earthly be made heavenly, and of 
 selfish and sinful be made holy and obedient to God, he 
 can never be saved, no more than the devil himself can be 
 saved. And if this be so — as nothing is more sure — 
 I require thee now, who readest these words, as thou 
 regardest thy salvation, as thou wouldst escape hell-fire and 
 
 * Titus iii. 5, 6 : John xiii. 5, 6. t 2 Timothy iii 16. 
 
 X Hebrews ii. 3, 4. || 2 Corinthians xiii. 5 : Psalm iv. 4: 2 Peter i. 10. 
 
 I § John iii. 5 : 2 Corinthians v. 17 : Romans viii. 7-9 : Philippians iii. 18-20. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 13 
 
 stand with comfort before Christ and his angels at the last, 
 that thou soberly consider whether reason command thee 
 not to try thy state : whether thou art thus renewed by the 
 Spirit of Christ or not, '^ and to call for help to those that 
 can advise theet and follow on the search till thou know 
 thy case. And if thy soul be a stranger to this sanctifying 
 work, whether reason command thee not, without any 
 delay, to make out to Christ, and beg his Spirit, and cast 
 away thy sins, and give up thyself entirely to thy God, thy 
 Saviour and Sanctifier, and enter into his covenant, with a 
 full resolution never to forsake him ; to deny thyself and 
 the desires of the flesh and this deceitful, transitory world, 
 and lay out all thy hopes on heaven, and speedily, whatever 
 it cost thee, to make sure of the felicity which hath no end ? 
 And darest thou refuse this when God and conscience do 
 command it ? And further I advise you, 
 
 X. Understand how it is that Satan hindereth souls 
 from being sanctified^ that you may know how much to re- 
 sist his wiles. Some he deceiveth by malicious suggestions 
 that holiness is nothing but fancy or hypocrisy :| and if 
 God and death and heaven and hell were fancies, this 
 might be believed. Some he debaucheth by the power of 
 fleshly appetite and lust, so that their sins will not let their 
 reason speak : some he keepeth in utter ignorance by the 
 evil education of ignorant parents and the negligence of 
 ungodly soul-murdering teachers : || some he deceiveth by 
 worldly hopes, and keepeth their minds so taken up with 
 worldly things, that the matters of eternity can have but 
 some loose and uneffectual thoughts, or as bad as none : 
 some are entangled in ill company, § so make a scorn of a 
 holy life, and feed them with continual diversions and 
 vain delights: and some are so hardened in their sin^ that 
 
 * Acts xvi. 14. 
 
 t Acts ii. 37, and xvi. 30, and xi. 33 ; 2 Corinthians vi. i, 2 : Rev. ii. 7. 
 
 X Acts xxiv. 14, and xxviii. 22, and xxiv. 5, 6. 
 
 II Malachi ii. 7-9 : Hosea iv. 9. § Proverbs xiii. 20. 
 
 \ Ephesians iv. 18, 19. 
 
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 they are even past feeling, and neither fear God's wrath 
 nor care for their salvation, but hear these things as men 
 asleep, and nothing will awake them. Some are dis- 
 couraged with a conceit that godliness is a life so grievous,* 
 sad and melancholy, that rather than endure it they will 
 venture their souls, come on it what will — as if it were a 
 grievous life to love God and hope for endless y^j^i"; and a 
 pleasant life to love the world and sin, and live within a 
 step of hell ! — Some that are convinced do put off their 
 conversion with delays, and think it's time enough here- 
 after : and are purposing and purposing till it be too late, 
 and life and time and hope be ended.-J- And some that 
 see there is a necessity of holiness are cheated by some 
 dead opinion or names or shews and images of holiness : \ 
 either because they hold a strict opinion or because they 
 are baptized with water and observe the outward parts of 
 worship : and perhaps because they offer God a great deal 
 of lip-service and lifeless ceremony, which never savoured of 
 a holy soul. Thus deadness, sensuality, worldliness and hy- 
 pocrisy do hinder millions from sanctification and salvation. 
 XI. If ever thou wouldest be saved, oppress not reason 
 by sensuality or diversions : but sometimes retire for sober 
 consideration. || Distracted and sleepy reason is unuse- 
 ful. God and conscience have a great deal to say to thee : 
 which in a crowd of company and business thou art not 
 fit to hear. It is a doleful case§ that a man who hath a 
 God, a Christ, a soul, a heaven, a hell to think of, will 
 allow them none but running thoughts, and not once in a 
 week bestow one hour in man -like serious consideration 
 of them.lT Sure thou hast no greater things to mind. Re- 
 solve then sometimes to spend half an hour in the deepest 
 thoughts of thy everlasting state. 
 
 * Malachi i. 13. t Matthew xxv. 3, 8, 12, and xxiv. 43, 44. 
 
 X John viii. 39, 42, 44 : Romans iii. i, 2 : Galatians iv. 29 : Matthew xiii, 
 19-22, and XV. 2, 3, 6 : Galatians I. i. 
 
 II Psalm iv. 4 : Haggai i. 5 : Deuter. xxxli. 7-29. § Isaiah i. 3. 
 
 \ Job xxxiv. 27 : Jer. xxiii. 20 : Psalm cxix. 59. 
 
TJie Great Case Resolved. 1 5 
 
 XII. Look iipofi this W07'ld and all its pleasures as a man 
 of reasoti^ 7uho foreseeth the end: and not as a beast that 
 liveth by sense or present objects.* Do I need to tell thee, 
 man, that thou must die ? Cannot carcases and dust in- 
 struct thee to see the end of earthly glory and all the plea- 
 sures of the flesh ? Is it a controversy whether thy flesh 
 must shortly perish ? and wilt thou yet provide for it before 
 thy soul ? What a sad farewell must thou shortly take of 
 all that worldlings sell their souls for ! And O how quickly 
 will this be ! Alas ! man, the day is even at hand : a few 
 days more and thou art gone ! and darest thou live unready, 
 and part with heaven for such a world as this ? 
 
 XIII. And then think soberly on the life to come : 7 
 what it is for a soul to appear before the living God and 
 be judged to endless joy or misery ! If the devil tempt 
 thee to doubt of such a life, remember that nature and 
 Scripture and the world's consent, and his own tempta- 
 tions are witnesses against him. O man canst thou pass 
 one day in company or alone in business or in idleness, 
 without some sober thoughts of everlastingness ? Nothing 
 more sheweth that the hearts of men are asleep or dead 
 than that the thoughts of endless joy or pain, so near at 
 hand, constrain them not to be holy and overcome not all the 
 temptations of the flesh as toys and inconsiderable things. 
 
 XIV. Mind well^ what mind most men are of when they 
 come to die I \ Unless it be some desperate forsaken wretch 
 do they not all speak well of a holy life ? and wish that 
 their lives had been spent in the most fervent love of God 
 and strictest obedience to his laws ? Do they then speak 
 well of lust and pleasures and magnify the wealth and 
 honours of the world? Had they not rather die as the 
 most mortified saints, than as [careless, fleshly worldly sin- 
 
 * 2 Corinthians iv. 8 : Deut. xxxii. 29 : i John ii. 17 : i Cor. vii. 31 : Luke : 
 TO, 20 : John xiv. i, 2 : i Thess. v. 13. 
 
 t Luke xii. 4 : Eccl. xii. 7 : 2 Peter iii. 11 : 2 Cor. iv. 18 : Phil. iii. 18, 20. 
 X Numbers xxiii. 10: Matt. xxv. 8 ; vii. 21 22 : Prov. i. 28, 29. 
 
1 6 Listructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 ners ? and dost thou see and know this, and yet wilt thou 
 not be instructed to be wise in time ? 
 
 XV. Think well what manner of men these were whose 
 names are now honoured for their holiness.^ What manner 
 of life did St Peter and St Paul, St Cyprian, St Augustine, 
 and all other saints and martyrs live? Was it a life of 
 fleshly sports and pleasures? Did they deride or perse- 
 cute a holy life ? Were they not more strictly holy than 
 any that thou knowest ? And is he not self-condemned that 
 honoureth the names of saints and will not imitate them? 
 
 XVI. Think what the difference is between a Christian 
 and an heathe?i.f You are loath to be heathens or infidels. 
 But do you think a Christian excelleth them but in opinion? 
 He that is not holier than they, is worse, and shall suffer 
 more than they. 
 
 XVII. Think what the difference is betwee?t a godly 
 Christian and an ungodly, % Do not all the opposers of 
 holiness among us yet speak for the same God and Christ 
 and Scripture: and profess the same creed and religion, 
 with those whom they oppose ? And is not this Christ the 
 author of our holiness, and this Scripture the commander 
 of it ? Search and see, whether the difference be not this, 
 that the godly are serious in their profession, and the un- 
 godly are hypocrites, who hate and oppose the practise of 
 the very things which themselves profess : whose religion 
 serveth but to condemn them while their lives are contrary 
 to their tongues. 
 
 XVIII. Understand what the devil's policy is by rais- 
 ing so many sects andfactio?is and controversies about religion 
 in the world :\\ even to make some think that they are reli- 
 
 * Matthew xxiii. 29-33 • Heb. xi. 38 : John viii. 39. 
 
 t Matthew x. 15 : Romans ii : Acts x. 34, 35. 
 
 X Romans ii. 28, 29 : Matthew xxv, 28 : Luke xix. 22 : Acts xxiv, 15 : Gala- 
 tians iv. 29. 
 
 II Ephesians iv. 14: Acts xx. 30: i Corinthians xi. 19: 2 Timothy iv. 3, and 
 ii. 14, 16: I Timothy i. 5, 6 : Titus iii. 9: Ephesians iv. 3 etc. : i Corinthians xii: 
 Matthew xii. 25: Romans ii. 12, 27-29. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 17 
 
 gious because they can prate for their opinions, or because 
 they think their party is the best, because their faction is 
 the greatest or the best; the uppermost or the suffering 
 side. And to turn holy, edifying conference into vain 
 jangHng ; and to make men atheists — suspecting all reli- 
 gion and true to none — because of men's diversity of 
 minds. But remember that [the] Christian religion is but 
 one, and a thing easily known by its ancient rule ; and the 
 universal church containing all churches, is but one. And if 
 carnal interest or opinions so distract men that one party 
 saith ' We are all the Church,' and another saith ' It is we ' 
 — as if the kitchen were all the house or one town or 
 village all the kingdom — wilt thou be mad vvith seeing this 
 distraction? Hearken sinner, all those sects in the Day 
 of Judgment shall concur as witnesses against thee if thou 
 be unholy : because however else they differed,''^ all of 
 them that are Christians professed the necessity of holiness 
 and subscribed to that Scripture which requireth it. 
 Though thou canst not easily resolve every controversy 
 thou may'st easily know the true religion, it is that which 
 Christ and his apostles taught, which all Christians have 
 professed, which Scripture requireth : which is first pure 
 and then peaceable : t most spiritual, heavenly, charitable, 
 and just. 
 
 XIX. Away from that compariy % which is sensual^ and 
 an enemy to reason, sobriety and holiness, and consequently 
 to God, themselves and thee. Can they be wise for thee 
 that are foolish for themselves ? or friends to thee that are 
 undoing themselves ? or have any pity on thy soul when 
 they make a jest of their own damnation? will they help 
 thee to heaven who are running so furiously to hell? 
 Chuse better familiars if thou woulds't be better. 
 
 XX. Judge not of a holy life by hearsay^ for it cannot so 
 
 * Galatians i. 7, 8 : Matthew xxviii. 20. t James iil. 17, 
 
 X Ephesians v. 11: Proverbs xxiii. 20: 2 Corinthians vi. 17, 18: Psalm x v. 4: 
 Deuteronomy xiii. 3. 
 B 
 
1 8 Instructlo?ts for a Holy Life. 
 
 be known.* Try it awhile and then judge as thou findest 
 it. Speak not against the things thou knowest not. 
 Hadst thou but Hved in the love of God, and the lively 
 belief of endless glory, and the delights of holiness, and 
 the fears of hell but for one month or day : and with such 
 a heart hadst cast away thy sint and called upon God and 
 ordered thy family in a holy manner, especially on the 
 Lord's day, I dare boldly say experience would constrain 
 thee to justify a holy life. J But yet I must tell thee it is 
 not true holiness if thou but try it with exceptions and 
 reserves. || If therefore God hath convinced thee that 
 this is his will and way, I adjure thee as in his dreadful 
 presence, that thou delay no longer § but resolve, and 
 absolutely give up thyself to God as thy heavenly Father, 
 thy Saviour and thy Sanctifier, and * make an everlasting 
 covenant with him,' and then he and all his mercies will be 
 thine : his grace will help thee and his mercy pardon thee : 
 his ministers will instruct thee and his people pray for thee 
 and assist thee : his angels will guard thee and his Spirit 
 comfort thee : and when flesh must fail and thou must 
 leave this world, thy Saviour will then receive thy soul and 
 bring it into the participation of his glory : and he will 
 raise thy body and justify thee before the world and make 
 thee equal to the angels : and thou shalt live in the sight 
 and love of God and in the everlasting pleasures of his 
 glory. This is the end of faith and holiness. But if thou 
 harden thy heart and refusest mercy IT everlasting woe will 
 be thy portion, and then there will be no remedy. 
 
 And now. Reader, I beg of thee and I beg of God on 
 my bended knees that these few words may sink into thy 
 heart and that thou wouldest read them over and over 
 again and bethink thee as a man that must shortly die. 
 
 * John V. 40 : Luke xiv. 29, 30 : John vi. 35, 37, 45. t Isaiah Iv. 6, 7. 
 
 X Matthew xi. 19. II Luke xiv. 33. 
 
 § Revelations xxii. 17: John i. 12: Revelations ii. and iii. : i John v. 12, 13: 
 Psalm xxxiv. 7 : Psalm Ixxiii. 26 : Matthew xxv. : Luke xx. 39 : Hebrews ii. 3 : 
 rrhessalonians ii. 12. ^ Luke xix. 27: Proverbs x.xix. i, and i. 10, etc. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 19 
 
 Whether any deserve thy love and obedience more than 
 God ? and thy thankful rememberance more than Christ ? 
 and thy care and diligence more than thy salvation ? Is 
 there any felicity more desirable than heaven ? or any 
 misery more terrible than hell ? or anything so regardable 
 as that which is everlasting ? Will a few days' fleshly 
 pleasures pay for the loss of heaven and thy immortal soul ? 
 or will thy sin and thy prosperity be meet at death and in 
 the day of judgment? If thou art a man, and as ever thou 
 believest that there is a God and a world to come, and as 
 ' thou carest for thy soul, whether it be saved or damned, 
 I beseech thee, I charge thee, think of these things ! think 
 of them once a day at least ! think of them with thy most 
 sober, serious thoughts ! Heaven is not a May-game and 
 hell is not a flea-biting ! Make not a jest of salvation or 
 damnation ! I know thou livest in a distracted world 
 where thou mayest hear some laughing at such things as 
 these, and scorning at a holy life, and fastening odious 
 reproaches on the godly, and merrily drinking and playing 
 and feasting away their time, and then saying that they will 
 trust God with their souls and hope to be saved without so 
 much ado ! But if all these men do not change their 
 minds and be not shortly down-in-the-mouth, and would 
 not be glad to eat their words, and wished that they had 
 lived a holy life, though it had cost them scorn and suffer- 
 ing in the world, let me bear the shame of a deceiver for 
 ever. But if God and thy conscience bear witness against 
 thy sin and tell thee that a holy life is best, regard not the 
 gain-sayings of a bedlam-world, which is drunk with the 
 delusions of the flesh. But give up thy soul and life to 
 God by Jesus Christ in a faithful covenant ! Delay no 
 longer, man, but resolve, resolve immediately, resolve un- 
 changeably : and God will be thine and thou shalt be his 
 for ever. Amen. Lord have mercy on this sinner and 
 so let it be resolved by thee in him. 
 
 II. The Parts and Practice of a holy life for personal 
 
20 ' Instructio7is for a Holy Life. 
 
 and family instructions. All is not done when men have 
 begmi a religious life."^ All trees that blossom prove not 
 fruitful, and all fruit comes not to perfection. Many fall 
 off who seemed to have good beginnings ; and many dis- 
 honour the name of Christ, by their scandals and infirmi- 
 ties. Many do grieve their teachers' hearts and lamentably 
 disturb the Church of Christ, by their ignorance, errors, 
 self-conceitedness, unruliness, headiness, contentiousness, 
 sidings and divisions : insomuch that the scandals and the 
 feuds of Christians are t the great impediments of the 
 conversion of the infidel and heathen world, by the expos- 
 ing Christianity to their contempt and scorn, as if it were 
 but the error of men as unholy and worldly and proud as 
 others, that can never agree among themselves. And 
 many by their passions and selfishness are a trouble to 
 their families and neighbours where they live. And more 
 by their weaknesses and great distempers, are snares, vexa- 
 tions and burdens to themselves. Whereas Christianity 
 in its true constitution is a life of such holy light and love, % 
 such purity and peace, such fruitfulness and heavenliness, 
 as, if it were accordingly shewed forth in the lives of Chris- 
 tians, would command admiration and reverence from the 
 world and do more to their conversion than swords or 
 words alone can do : and it makes Christians useful and 
 amiable to each other and their lives a feast and pleasure 
 to themselves. I hope it may prove some help to those 
 excellent ends and to the securing men's salvation, if in a 
 few, sound experienced directions I open to you the duties 
 of a Christian life. 
 
 I. Keep still the true form of Christian doctrine^ desire and 
 duty., orderly printed on your fuinds : || that is, understand 
 it clearly and distinctly and remember it, I mean the great 
 
 * I Corinthians i. 25 : Hebrews iv. i : 2 Peter ii. 22 : i Corinthians iii. : Gala- 
 tians iii. and iv. : Matthew xiii. 41, and xviii. 7. 
 t Philippians iii. 18, 19: Acts xx. 30. 
 X Matthew V. 16: i Peter ii. 18: 2 Corinthians i. 21. 
 II 2 Timothy i. 13, and iii. 7: Hebrews v. 12: Philippians i. 9: Romans w. 14. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 21 
 
 points of religion contained in Catechisms. You may still 
 grow in the clearer understanding of your Catechisms, if 
 you live an hundred years. Let not the words only but 
 the matter, be as familiar in your minds as the rooms of 
 your house are. Such solid knowledge * will establish you 
 against seduction and unbelief and will be still within you 
 a ready help for every grace and every duty, as the skill of 
 an artificer is for his work. And for want of this when 
 you come among infidels or heretics, their reasonings may 
 ' seem unanswerable to you, and shake if not overthrow your 
 faith. And you will easily err in lesser points and trouble 
 the Church with your dreams and wranglings. This is the 
 calamity of many professors, that while they will be most 
 censorious judges in every controversy about Church- 
 matters they know not well the doctrine of the Catechism. 
 II. Live daily by faith on Jesus Christ \ as the Mediator 
 betiveen God and you. Being well-grounded in the belief of 
 the Gospel and understanding Christ's office, make use of 
 him still in all your wants. Think on the fatherly love of 
 God, as coming to you through him alone : and of the 
 Spirit as given by him your head : and of the covenant of 
 grace as enacted and sealed by him : and of the ministry 
 as sent by him : and of all times and helps and hopes as 
 procured and given by him. When you think of sin and 
 infirmity and temptations, think also of his sufficient, par- 
 doning, justifying and victorious grace. When thou think est 
 of the world, the flesh and the devil, think how he over- 
 cometh them. Let his doctrine and the pattern of his 
 most perfect life, be always before you as your rule. In 
 all your doubts and fears and wants go to him in the 
 Spirit and to the Father by him and him alone. Take 
 him as the root of your life and mercies, and live as upon 
 
 * Ephesians iv. 13, 14: Colossians i. 9, and ii. 2, and iii. 10: i Timothy vl. 4. 
 
 t John xvii. 3 : Ephesians iii. 17, 18 : Matthew xxviii. 19 : Ephesians i. 22, 23, 
 and iv. 6, 16: Romans v.: 2 Corinthians xii. 9: John xvi. 33: \ John v. 4 : 
 Hebrews iv. 14, 16, etc. 
 
2 2 Instructions foi a Holy Life. 
 
 him and by his life ; and when you die resign your soul to 
 him that they may be with him ' where he is and see his 
 glory.' To live as Christ and use him in every want and 
 address to God, is more than a general confused believing 
 in him. 
 
 III. To believe in the Holy Ghost as to live a?td work by 
 him^ as the body doth by the soul.^ You are not baptized 
 into his name in vain ; t but too few understand the sense 
 and reason of it. The Spirit is sent by Christ for two 
 great works, i. To the apostles and prophets to inspire* 
 them infallibly to preach the Gospel % and confirm it by 
 miracles and leave it on record for following ages in the 
 Holy Scriptures. 2. To all his members || to illuminate 
 and sanctify them to believe and obey this sacred doctrine 
 — ^beside his common gift to many to understand and 
 preach it. The Spirit having first indited § the Gospel 
 doth by it first regenerate and after govern, all true believers. 
 He is not now given us for the revealing of new doctrines 
 but to understand and obey the doctrine revealed and 
 sealed by him long ago. ^ As the sun doth by its sweet 
 and discreet *'^ influence both give and cherish the natural 
 life of things, sensitive and vegetative : so doth Christ by 
 his Spirit our spiritual life, ft As you do no work but by 
 your natural life you should do none but by your spiritual 
 life. You must not only believe and love and pray by it, 
 and manage all your calling by it : for ' holiness to the 
 Lord ' must be written upon all. All things are sanctified 
 to you because you being sanctified to God devote all to 
 him and use all for him ; and therefore must do all in the 
 strength and conduct of the Spirit. 
 
 * Galatians v. 16, 25. t Matthew xxviii. 19. 
 
 X John xvi. 13: Hebrews ii. 34. 
 
 il I Corinthians xii. 12, 13: Romans viii. 9, 13: John iii. 5, 6. 
 § Spelled 'indicted.' G. ^2 Timothy iii. 15, 16: Jude 19, 20. 
 
 ** * Well-timed ' or provident. G. 
 
 tt Ezekiel xxxvi, 27 : Isaiah xliv. 3 : Romans viii. 1,5:1 Corinthians vi. 1 1 : 
 Zechariah xiv. 20. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 23 
 
 IV. Live wholly upon God as all in all : "^ as the first 
 efficient, principal dirigent t and final cause of all things. 
 Let faith, hope and love be daily feeding on him. Let 
 
 * our Father which art in heaven ' be first inscribed on your 
 hearts that he may seem most amiable to you and you may 
 boldly trust him, and filial love may be the spring of duty. 
 Make use of the Son and the Spirit to lead you to the 
 Father : and of faith in Christ to kindle and keep alive the 
 love of God. God's love is our primitive holiness and 
 especially called, with its fruits ' our sanctification ' which 
 
 * faith in Christ ' is but a means to. Let it be your prin- 
 cipal end in studying Christ, to see the goodness, love and 
 amiableness of God in him. A condemning God is not so 
 easily loved as a gracious reconciled God. You have so 
 much of the Spirit as you have love to God. This is the 
 proper gift of the Spirit to all the adopted sons of God, to 
 cause them with filial affection and dependance to cry 
 ' Abba Father.' Know not, desire not, love not any creature 
 but purely as subordinate to God. Without him, let it be 
 nothing to you, but as the glass without the face or scattered 
 letters without the sense or as the corps without the soul. 
 Call nothing prqsperity or pleasure but his love : J and 
 nothing adversity or misery but his displeasure and the 
 cause and the fruits of it. When anything would seem 
 lovely and desirable which is against him, call it ' dung.' || 
 And hear that man as Satan and the serpent § that would 
 entice you from him; and count him but vanity, a worm and 
 dust, that would affright you from your duty to him. Fear 
 him much but love him more. Let love be the soul and end 
 of every duty. IT It is the end and reason of all the rest : 
 but it hath no end or reason but its object. Think of 
 no other heaven and end and happiness of man but love 
 
 * I Corinthians x. 31: Romans xi. 36: 2 Corinthians v. 7, 8: i John iii, i: 
 Romans v, 1-3 : Matthew xxii. 37 : Ephesians i. 6 : 2 Corinthians v. 19 : Galatians 
 iv. 4-6. t Sic: cf. Richardson under 'dirge, dirige.' G. 
 
 J Psalm XXX. 5, and Ixiii. 3. II Philippians iii. 7, 8. 
 
 § Matthew xvi. 13. If 2 Thessalonians iii. 5 : 2 Corinthians xiii. 14. 
 
24 Instructio7is for a Holy Life. 
 
 the final act and God the final object. Place not your 
 religion in anything but the love of God, with its means 
 and firuits. Own no grief, desire or joy but a mourning, a 
 seeking and a rejoicing love. 
 
 V. Live in the belief mid hopes of heaven., a?id seek it as 
 youi" part and etid ; and daily delight your souls in the fore- 
 thoughts of the endless sight and love of God.* As God 
 is seen on earth but as in a glass so is he proportionably 
 enjoyed. But when mourning, seeking love hath done, and 
 sin and enemies are overcome, and we behold the glory of 
 God in heaven, the delights of love will then be perfect. 
 You may desire more on earth than you may hope for. 
 Look not for a kingdom of this world, nor for Mount Zion 
 in the wilderness. Christ reigneth on earth — as Moses in 
 the camp — to guide us to the Land of the promise. Our 
 perfect blessedness will be when the kingdom is delivered 
 up to the Father and God is all in all. A doubt, or a 
 strange, heartless thought of heaven, is water cast on the 
 sacred fire, to quench your holiness and your joy. Can 
 you travel one whole day to such an end, and never think 
 of the place that you are going to? which must be in- 
 tended t in every righteous act — either notedly or by the 
 ready unobserved act of a potent habit. When earth is at 
 the best it will not be heaven. You live no further by 
 faith, like Christians, than you either live for heaven in 
 seeking it or else upon heaven in hope and joy. 
 
 VI. Labour to make religion your pleasure and delight. 
 Look oft to God, to heaven, to Christ, to the Spirit, to the 
 promises, to all your mercies. Call over your experiences, 
 and think what matter of high delight is still before you, 
 and how unseemly it is, and how injurious to your profes- 
 
 * Colossians iii. 1-4: Matthew vi. 19-21, 33: 2 Corinthians iv, 17, 18, and vli. : 
 Luke xii. 20 : Hebrews vi. 20 : 1 Corinthians xv, 28 : Ephesians iv. 6, and i. 23 : 
 Philippians iii. 18, 20 : Psalm' Ixxiii. 25, 26 : John xviii. 36. 
 
 t Psalm i. 2, 3: Ixxxiv. 2, 10: Ixiii. 3, 5: xxxvii. 4: xci. 19: cxix. 47, 70: 
 Isaiah Iviii. 14: Psalm cxii. 1: Romans xiv. 17, and v. i, 3, 5 : i Peter i. 8: 
 Matthew V. ii, 12: Psalm xxxii. 11. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 25 
 
 sion for one that saith he hopeth for heaven, to live as 
 sadly as those that have no higher hopes than earth. How 
 should that man be filled with joy, who must live in the 
 joys of heaven for ever ! Especially rejoice when the 
 messengers of death do tell you that your endless joy is 
 near. If God and heaven with all our mercies in the way, 
 be not reason enough for a joyful life, there can be none 
 at all. Abhor all suggestions which would make religion 
 seem a tedious, irksome life. And take care that you 
 represent it not so to others \ for you will never make them 
 in love with that which you make them not perceive to be 
 delectable and lovely. Not as the hypocrite, by forcing 
 and framing his religion to his carnal mind and pleasure : 
 but bringing up the heart to a holy suitableness to the 
 pleasures of religion. 
 
 VII. Watch as for your souls against this flattering, 
 tempting world :^ especially when it is represented as more 
 sweet and delectable than God and holiness and heaven. 
 This world with its pleasures, wealth and honours, is it 
 that is put in the balance by Satan, against God and holi- 
 ness and heaven : and no man shall have better than he 
 chooseth and prefereth. The bait taketh advantage of the 
 brutish part when reason is asleep : and if by the help of 
 sense it get the throne, the beast will ride and rule the man : 
 and reason becomes a slave to sensuality. When you hear 
 the serpent, see his sting and see death attending the for- 
 bidden fruit. When you are rising look down and see how 
 far you have to fall ! His reason as well as faith, is weak, 
 who for such fools-gawds as the pomp and vanities of this 
 world, can forget God and his soul and death and judgment, 
 heaven and hell, yea and deliberately command them to 
 stand by. What knowledge or experience can do good on 
 that man who will venture so much for such a world, which 
 
 * Galatians vi. 14 : i John ii. 15, 16 : James i. 27 and iv, 4, 5 : i John v. 4, 5 : 
 Romans xii, 2 : Galatians i. 4 : Titus ii. 12 : Matthew xix. 24 : Luke xii. 16, 21 and 
 xvi. 25 : James i. 11 and v. i, 2, 4 : Luke viii. 14 : Hebrews xi. 26. 
 
26 Tnstriictio7is for a Holy Life. 
 
 all that have tried it, call vanity at the last ? How deplor- 
 able then is a wordling's case ! Oh fear the world when it 
 smileth or seems sweet and amiable. Love it not if you 
 love your God and your salvation. 
 
 VIII. Fly from temptations and crucify the flesh and 
 keep a constant government over your appetite ajid senses.^ 
 Many who had no designed, stated vice or worldly interest, 
 have shamefully fallen by the sudden surprise of appetite 
 and lust. When custom hath taught those to be greedy 
 and violent, like a hungry dog or a lusting boar, it is not a 
 sluggish wish or purpose that will mortify or rule them. 
 How dangerous a ca,se is that man in who hath so greedy 
 a beast continually to restrain ! that if he do but neglect 
 his watch an hour, is ready to run him headlong into hell ! 
 Who can be safe that standeth long on so terrible a preci- 
 pice ? The tears and sorrows of many years may perhaps 
 not repair the loss which one hour or act may bring. The 
 case of David and many others, are dreadful warnings. 
 Know what it is you are most in danger of: whether lust 
 and idleness or excess in meats or drinks or play : and 
 there set your strongest watch for your preservation. Make 
 it your daily business to mortify that lust, and scorn that 
 your brutish sense or appetite should conquer reason. 
 Yet trust not purposes alone : but away from the tempta- 
 tion. Touch not, yea look not on the tempting bait : keep 
 far enough off if you desire to be safe. What miseries 
 come from small beginnings ! Temptation leads to sin, and 
 small sins to greater, and those to hell. And sin and hell 
 are not to be played with. Open your sin or temptation 
 to some friend, that shame may save you from danger. 
 
 IX. Keep up a constant^ skilful governmeiit over your 
 passions and your tongues, t To this end keep a tender 
 
 * Romans viii. i, 13 : Galatians v. 24 : Romans xiii. 14 : Galatians v. 17 : Jude 
 8, 23 : 2 Peter ii. 10 : Ephesians ii. 3 : i Peter ii. 11 : Matthew vi. 13 : xxvi. 41 : 
 Luke viii. 13. 
 
 t James i. 19 : iii. 17 : i Peter iii. 4 : Matthew v. 5 : Ephesians iv. 2, 3 : Colos- 
 sians iii. 12. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 27 
 
 conscience, which will smart when in any of these you 
 sin. Let holy passions be well-ordered ; and selfish, carnal 
 passions, be restrained. Let your tongues know their 
 duties to God and man* and labour to be skilfiil and 
 resolute in performing them. Know all the sins of the 
 tongue, that you may avoid them : for your innocency and 
 peace do much depend on the prudent government of your 
 tongues. 
 
 X. Govern your thoughts with co7ista7it skilful dilige^ice, t 
 In this, rigid habits and affections will do much by inclining 
 them unto good. It's easy to think on that which we love. 
 Be not unfurnished of matter for your thoughts to work 
 upon : and often retire yourselves for serious meditation. 
 Be not so solitary and deep in musings as to over-stretch 
 your thoughts and confound your minds or take you off 
 from necessary converse with others. But be sure that you 
 be considerate and dwell much at home, and converse most 
 with your consciences and your God, with whom you have 
 the greatest business. Leave not your thoughts unem- 
 ployed or ungoverned, scatter them not abroad upon 
 impertinent vanities ! O that you knew what daily business 
 you have for them. Most men are wicked, deceived and 
 undone, because they are inconsiderate and dare not or 
 will not, retiredly and soberly use their reason : or use it but 
 as a slave in chains in the service of their passion, lust and 
 interest. He was never wise or good or happy, who was 
 not soberly and impartially considerate. How to be good, 
 to do good and finally enjoy good, must be the sum of all 
 your thoughts. Keep them first holy, then charitable, clean 
 and chaste. And quickly check them when they look 
 towards sin. 
 
 XI. Let time be exceeding precious in your eyes, a?id care- 
 
 * James i. 26 : iii. 5, 6 : Psalm xxxiv. 13 : Proverbs xviii. 21. 
 
 t Deuteronomy xv. 9 : 2 Corinthians x. 5 : Genesis vi. 5 : Psalm x. 4, and xciv. 
 19: cxix. 113: Proverbs xii. 5, and xv. 26: Psalm cxix. 59: Proverbs xxx. 32: 
 Jeremiah iv. 14 : Deuteronomy xxxii. 29. 
 
28 Instructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 fully and diligently redeem it. * What haste doth it make ! 
 and how quickly will it be gone ! and then how highly will 
 it be valued when a minute of it can never be recalled ! 
 O what important business have we for every moment of 
 our time, if we should live a thousand years ! Take not 
 that man to be well in his wits or to know his God, his end, 
 his work or his danger, who hath time to spare. Redeem 
 it not only from needless sports and plays and idleness and 
 curiosity and compliment and excess of sleep and chat and 
 worldliness : but also from the entanglements of lesser good 
 which would hinder you from greater. Spend time as men 
 that are ready to pass into another world, where every 
 minute must be accounted for ; and it must go with us for 
 ever as we lived here. Let not health deceive you into 
 the expectation of living long, and so into a senseless 
 negligence. See your glass running and keep a reckoning 
 of the expense of time : and spend it just as you would 
 review it when it is gone. 
 
 XII. Let the love of all in their several capacities., hecofne 
 as it were your very nature : and doing them all the good 
 you can be very much of the business of your lives. God 
 must be loved in all his creatures, his natural image on all 
 men and his spiritual image on his saints. Our neighbour 
 must be loved as our natural selves, that is, our natural 
 neighbour as our natural self, with a love of benevolence : 
 and our spiritual neighbour as our spiritual self, with a love 
 of complacence. In opposition to complacente we may 
 hate our sinful neighbour, as we must ourselves, much 
 more. But in opposition to benevolence we must neither 
 hate ourselves, our neighbour or our enemy. O that men 
 
 * Ephesians v. i6 : John xiv. i, 2 : Acts xvii. 21 : i Corinthians vii. 29 : 2 Cor- 
 inthians vi. 2 : John ix. 4 : Luke xix. 42, 44 : Psalms xxxix. 4 : Matthew xxv. 10, 12. 
 
 ti Timothy i. 5, 6 : Matthew xix. 19; Romans xiii. 10 : i John i. 16 : Ephesians 
 iv. 2, 15, 16 : Colossians ii, 2, andi. 4 : i Timothy vi. 11 : James iii. 17 : Philippians 
 ii. 1,2: I Thessalonians iv, 9 : John xiii. 35 : Matthew v. 44, 45 : i Corinthians 
 xiii. : Jamqs iv. ii : Galalians vi. 10: Titus ii. 14 : Philippians ii. 20, 21 : Romans 
 XV. I, 3. 
 
TJie Great Case Resolved, 2 9 
 
 knew how much of Christianity doth consist in love 
 and doing good. With what eyes do they read the Gospel 
 who see not this in every page ? Abhor all that selfishness, 
 pride and passion which are the enemies of love : and those 
 opinions and factions and censurings and back-bitings, 
 which would destroy it. Take him that speaketh evil of 
 another to you without a just cause and call, to be Satan's 
 messenger, entreating you to hate your brother or to abate 
 your love. For to persuade you that a man is bad is di- 
 rectly to persuade you so far to hate him. Not that the 
 good and bad must be confounded : but love will call none 
 bad without constraining evidence. Rebuke back-biters. 
 Hurt no man and speak evil of no man ; unless it be not 
 only just but necessarily to some greater good. Love is 
 lovely : they that love shall be beloved ; hating and 
 hurting makes men hateful. ' Love thy neighbour as thy- 
 self,' and ' do as thou wouldst be done by,' are the golden 
 rules of our duty to men : which must be deeply wTitten on 
 your hearts. For want of this there is nothing so false, so 
 bad, so carnal which you may not be drawn to think or say or 
 do against your brethren. Selfishness and want of love do 
 as naturally tend to ambition and covetousness, and thence 
 to cruelty against all that stand in the w^ay of their desires, 
 as the nature of a wolf to kill the lambs. All factions and 
 contentions and persecutions in the world, proceed from 
 selfishness and want of charity. Devouring malice is the 
 devilish nature. Be as zealous in doing good to all as 
 Satan's servants are in hurting. Take it as the use of all 
 your talents, and use them as you would hear of it at last. 
 Let it be your business and not a matter on the by : 
 especially for public good and men's salvation. And what 
 you cannot do yourselves, persuade others to. Give them 
 good books : and draw them to the means which are most 
 like to profit them. 
 
 XIII. Understand the right terms of Church-communion : 
 especially the unity of the universal church and the univer- 
 
30 Listructioiis fo7' a Holy Life. 
 
 sal communion which you must hold with all the parts and 
 the difference between the Church as visible and invisible. 
 For want of these how woeful are our divisions ! Read oft 
 I Corinthians xii., and Ephesians iv. 1-17 : John xvii. 
 21-23 : Actsiv. 32; ii. 42 : i Corinthians i. 10, 11, 13 : iii. 3 : 
 Romans xvi. 17: Philippians ii. 1-4: i Thessalonians v. 
 
 12, 13 : Acts XX. 30 : i Corinthians xi. 19 : Titus iii. 10 : 
 James iii. : Colossians i. 4 : Hebrews x. 25 : Acts viii. 12, 
 
 13, 37 : I Corinthians i. 2, 13 : iii. 3, 4 : xi. 18, 21. Study 
 these well. You must have union and communion in faith 
 and love with all the Christians in the world. And refuse 
 not local communion when you have a just call so far as 
 they put you not on sinning. Let your usual meeting 
 be with the purest church, if you lawfully may — and still 
 respect the public good — but sometimes occasionally 
 communicate with defective, faulty churches, so be it they 
 are true Christians and put you not on sin : that so you 
 may show that you own them as Christians, though you 
 disown their corruptions. Think not your presence maketh 
 all the faults of ministry, worship or people to be yours — 
 for then I would join with no Church in the world. Know 
 that as the mystical church consisteth of heart-covenanters, 
 so doth the Church as visible consist of verbal-covenanters, 
 which make a credible profession of consent : and that 
 nature and scripture teacheth us to take every man's word 
 as credible, till perfidiousness forfeit his credit : which for- 
 feiture must be proved, before any sober profession can be 
 taken for an insufficient title. Grudge not then at the 
 communion of any professed Christian in the Church 
 visible* — though we must do our part to cast out the ob- 
 stinately impertinent by discipline : which, if we cannot 
 do, the fault is not ours. The presence of hypocrites is 
 no hurt but oft a mercy to the sincere. How small else 
 would the Church seem in the world ! Outward privileges 
 
 ♦Matthew xiii. 29, 41. 
 
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 belong to outward covenanters and inward mercies to the 
 sincere. Division is wounding and tends to death.* Abhor 
 it if you love the Church's welfare or your own. ^ The 
 wisdom from above is first pure then peaceable.' Never 
 separate what God conjoineth. It is the earthly, sensual, 
 devilish wisdom which causeth bitter envying and strife and 
 confusion and every evil word. ' Blessed are the peace- 
 makers.' 
 
 XIV. Take heed of pride a7id self -conceitedfiess in religion'^: . 
 If once you over- value your own understandings, your crude 
 conceptions and gross mistakes will delight you as some 
 supernatural light ; and instead of having compassion on 
 the weak, you will be unruly and despisers of your guides 
 and censorious contemners of all that differ from you, and 
 persecutors of them if you have power, and will . think all 
 intolerable that take you not as oracles and your word as 
 law. Forget not that the Church hath always suffered by 
 censorious, worldly professors on the one hand — and O 
 what divisions and scandals have they caused ! — as well 
 by the profane and persecutors on the other. Take heed 
 of both : and when contentions are afoot be quiet and 
 silent and not too froward, and keep up a zeal for love and 
 peace. 
 
 XV. Be faithful and conscio7iable in all your relatio7is. 
 Honour and obey your parents and other superiors. Despise 
 not and resist not government. If you suffer unjustly 
 by them, be humbled for those sins, which cause God to 
 turn your protectors into afHictors. And instead of 
 mumiuring and rebelling against them, reform yourselves 
 and then commit yourselves to God. Princes and pastors 
 I will not speak to : subjects and servants and children, 
 must obey their superiors as the officers of God. 
 
 * John xvi. 2 : i Corinthians i. lo : Romans xvi. 17 : James iii. 14-18. 
 
 1 1 Timothy iii. 6 : Colossians ii. 18 : i Corinthians viii. i ; iv. 6 : i Timothy vi. 
 4 : 1 Peter v. 5 : James iii, i, 17 : Ephesians v. and vi. : Colossians iii. and iv. : 
 Romans xiii. i, 7 : i Peter ii. 13, 15. 
 
32 Instructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 XVI. Keep up the government of God in your families.'^ 
 Holy families must be the chief preservers of the interest 
 of religion in the world. Let not the world turn God's 
 service into a customary, lifeless form. Read the scrip- 
 ture and edifying books to them ; talk with them seriously 
 about the state of their souls and everlasting life ; pray with 
 them fervently; watch over them diligently; be angry 
 against sin and meek in your own cause ; be examples of 
 wisdom, holiness and patience ; and see that the Lord's 
 day be spent in holy preparation for eternity. 
 
 XVII. Let your callings he managed i7i holiness and 
 labor ious7iess.\ Live not in idleness; be not slothful in 
 your work be you bound or free ; in the sweat of your 
 brows you must eat your bread, and labour the six days 
 that you may have to give to him that needeth : slothful- 
 ness is sensuality as well as filthier sins. The body that is 
 able must have fit employments as well as the soul, or else 
 body and soul will fare the worse ; but let all be but as 
 the labour of a traveller, and aim at God and heaven in all. 
 
 XVIII. Deprive not yourself of the benefit of an able^ 
 faithful pastor, X to whom you may open your case in 
 secret, or at least of a holy faithful friend :|| and be not 
 displeased at their free reproofs.§ Woe to him that is 
 alone ! How blind and partial we are in our own cause ! 
 and how hard it is to know ourselves without an able, 
 faithful helper ! You forfeit this great mercy when you 
 love a flatterer, and angrily defend your sin. 
 
 XIX. Prepare for sickness, sufferings and death, IF Over- 
 value not prosperity nor the favours of man. If selfish 
 man prove false and cruel to you, even those of whom 
 you have deserved best, marvel not at it, but pray for your 
 
 * Command iv: Joshua xxiv. 15 : Deut. vi. 6-8 : Daniel vi. 
 
 t Hebrews xiii. 5 : Cojnmand iv. : 2 Thessalonians iii. 10, 12 : i Thessa- 
 lonians iv. 7 : i Timothy v. 13 : Proverbs xxxi. : i Corinthians vii. 29. 
 
 X Malachi ii. 7. 
 
 II Ecclesiastes iv. 10, 11. § Proverbs xii, i ; xv. 30, 31 : Hebrews iii. 13. 
 
 H Luke xii. 40 : 2 Peter i. 10 : PhiHppians i. 21, 23 : Jeremiah ix. 4, 5 : Matthew 
 vii. 4, 5 : 2 Corinthians v. 1-2, 4, 8. 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 33 
 
 enemies, persecutors and slanderers, that God would turn 
 their hearts and pardon them. What a mercy is it to be 
 driven from the world to God, when the love of the world 
 is the greatest danger of the soul ! Be ready to die and 
 you are ready for anything. Ask your hearts seriously, 
 what is it that I shall need at a dying hour ? And let it 
 speedily be got ready and not be to seek in the time of 
 your extremity. 
 
 XX. Understand the true method of peace of conscience : 
 and judge not the state of your souls upon deceitful grounds. 
 x\s presumptuous hopes do keep men from conversion and 
 embolden them to sin : so causeless fears do hinder our 
 love and praise of God, by obscuring his loveliness : and 
 they destroy our thankfulness and our delight in God, and 
 make us a burden to ourselves and a grievous stumbl- 
 ing-block to others. The general grounds of all your 
 comfort are (i) the gracious nature of God* (2) the suffi- 
 ciency of Christ t and (3) the truth and universality of 
 the promise % which giveth Christ and life to all, if they 
 will accept him. But this acceptance is the proof of your 
 particular title, without which these do but aggravate your 
 sin. Consent to God's covenant is the true condition and 
 proof of your title to God as your Father, Saviour and 
 Sanctifier, and so to the saving blessings of the covenant : 
 which consent, if you survive, must produce the duties 
 which you consent to. He that heartily consenteth that 
 God be his God, his Saviour and Sanctifier, is in a state 
 of life. But this includeth|| the rejection of the world. 
 Much knowledge, and memory, and utterance, and lively 
 affection, are all very desirable. But you must judge your 
 state by none of these, for they are all uncertain. But i. 
 If God and holiness and heaven have the highest esti- 
 
 * Exodus xxxiv. 6. t Hebrews vii. 25. 
 
 X John iv. 42 : John iii. 16 : i Timothy iv. 10 ; ii. 4 : Matthew xxviii. 19, 20 : 
 Rev. xxii. 17 : Isaiah Iv. 1-3, 6, 7, 
 
 II Luke XIV. 26, 33 : i John ii. 15 : Matt. vi. 19, 20, 21, 33 : Colossians iii. i, 2 : 
 Romans viii. i, 13. 
 C 
 
34 Instructions f 01' a Holy Life. 
 
 mation by your practical judgment, as being esteemed best 
 for you : 2. And be preferred in the choice and resolution 
 of your wills and that habitually before all the pleasures 
 of the world : 3. And be first and chiefly sought in your 
 endeavours : this is the infallible proof of your sanctification. 
 Christian, upon long and serious study and experience I 
 dare boldly commend these Directions to thee, as the 
 w^ay to God, w^hich will end in blessedness. The Lord 
 resolve and strengthen thee to obey them. This is the true 
 constitution of Christianity : this is true godliness : and 
 this is to be religious indeed : all this is no more than to 
 be seriously such as all among us in general would prefer 
 to be. This is the religion which must difference you from 
 hypocrites, which must settle you in peace and make you 
 an honour to your profession and a blessing to those that 
 dwell about you. Happy is the land, the church, the 
 family, which doth consist of such as these ! These are 
 not they that either persecute or divide the church or that 
 make their religio?i a servant to their policy, to their am- 
 bitious designs or fleshly lusts ; nor that make it the bellows 
 of sedition or rebellion or of an envious hurtful zeal or a 
 pistol to shoot at the upright in heart. These are not they 
 that have been the shame of their profession, to harden- 
 ing of ungodly men and infidels, and that have caused the 
 enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. If any man will make 
 a religion of or for his lusts : of Papal tyranny, or Phari- 
 saical formality, or of his private opinions, or of proud 
 censoriousness and contempt of others : and of faction and 
 unwarrantable separations and divisions and of standing at 
 a more observable distance from common professors of 
 Christianity than God would have them, or yet of pulling 
 up the hedge of discipline and laying Christ's vineyard 
 common to the wilderness — the storm is coming when this 
 religion founded on the sand will fall '^ and great will be the 
 fall thereof" When the religion which consisteth in faith 
 and love to God and man, in mortifying the flesh and 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 35 
 
 crucifying the world, in self-denial, humility and patience 
 in sincere obedience and faithfulness in all relations, in 
 watchful self-government, in doing good and in a divine 
 and heavenly life, though it will be hated by the ungodly 
 world — shall never be a dishonour to your Lord nor de- 
 ceive or disappoint your soul. 
 
 A Short Catechism. 
 
 Qtiest. I. What is the Christian Religion? 
 A71S. The Christian Religion is the baptismal-covenant 
 made and kept : wherein God the Father, Son and Holy 
 Ghost, doth give Himself to be our reconciled God and 
 Father, our Saviour and Sanctifier : and we believingly give 
 up ourselves accordingly to Him, renouncing the ^' flesh, 
 the world and the devil." Which covenant is to be oft 
 renewed, specially in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 
 
 Qiiesi. 2. Where is our covenant-part and duty fullier 
 opened ? 
 
 Ans. I. In the Creed, as the sum of our belief. 
 
 „ 2. In the Lord's Prayer, as the sum of our desires. 
 
 „ 3. And in the Ten Commandments (as given us 
 
 by Christ, with the Gospel-explanations) as 
 
 the sum of our practice. Which are as fol- 
 
 loweth — 
 
 THE CREED. 
 
 I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven 
 and earth ; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who 
 was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, 
 suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and 
 buried : he descended into hell ; the third day he rose 
 again from the dead ; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth 
 on the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; from thence 
 he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe 
 in the Holy Ghost ; the holy catholic church ; the com- 
 
;^6 Listimdioiis for a Holy Life. 
 
 munion of saints ; the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection 
 of the body ; and the life everlasting. Amen. 
 
 THE lord's prayer. 
 
 Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in 
 heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us 
 our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into 
 temptation ; but deliver us from evil : For thine is the king- 
 dom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 
 
 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 I. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee 
 out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 
 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 
 
 II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, 
 •or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or 
 that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under 
 the earth : Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor 
 serve them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 
 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto 
 the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; 
 and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, 
 and keep my commandments. 
 
 III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy 
 God in vain : for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that 
 taketh his name in vain. 
 
 IV. Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six 
 days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh 
 day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt 
 not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy 
 man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
 stranger that is within thy gates : for in six days the Lord 
 made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, 
 and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed 
 the sabbath-day, and hallowed it. 
 
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 V. Honour thy father and thy mother : that thy days 
 may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth 
 thee. 
 
 VI. Thou shalt not kill. 
 VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
 
 VIII. Thou shalt not steal. 
 IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
 neighbour. 
 
 X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou 
 shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, 
 nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing 
 that is thy neighbour's. 
 
 Quest. 3. Where is the Christian Religion most fully 
 opened and entirely contained ? 
 
 A?is. In the Holy Scriptures, especially of the New 
 Testament : where, by Christ and his Apostles and Evan- 
 gelists, inspired by His Spirit, the history of Christ and His 
 Apostles is sufficiently delivered, the promises and doctrines 
 of faith are perfected, the covenant of grace more clearly 
 opened and church-offices, worship and discipline esta- 
 blished : on the understanding whereof the strongest Chris- 
 tians may increase while they live on earth. . 
 
 77ie explained Profession of the Christian Religion. 
 
 I. I believe that there is One God, an infinite Spirit 
 of life, understanding and will : perfectly powerful, wise 
 and good : the Father, the Word and the Spirit, the Creator, 
 Governor and End of all things : our absolute Owner, our 
 most just Ruler and our most gracious Benefactor and most 
 amiable Lord. 
 
 II. I believe that man being made in the image of 
 God, an embodied spirit of life, understanding and will, 
 with holy suavity, wisdom and love, to know and love and 
 serve his Creator here and for ever, did by wilful sin- 
 ning fall from his God, his holiness and innocency, under 
 the wrath of God, the condemnation of his Law, and the 
 
38 Listriiciio7is for a Holy Life. 
 
 slavery of the flesh, the world and the devil. And that 
 God so loved the world that He gave His only Son to be 
 their Redeemer, who being God and one with the Father, 
 took our nature and became man : being conceived of the 
 Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, called Jesus Christ, 
 who was perfectly holy [and] sinless, fulfilling all righteous- 
 ness, overcame the devil and the world and gave Himself 
 a sacrifice for our sins, by suffering a cursed death on the 
 cross, to ransom us and reconcile us unto God : and was 
 buried and went among the dead : the third day He rose 
 again, having conquered death. And He fully established 
 the covenant of grace, that all that truly repent and believe 
 shall have the love of the Father, the grace of the Son and 
 the communion of the Holy Spirit ; and if they love God 
 and obey him sincerely to the death, they shall be glorified 
 with him in heaven for ever ; and the unbelievers, impeni- 
 tent and ungodly shall go to everlasting punishment. And 
 having commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to 
 all the world and promised His Spirit, He ascended into 
 heaven : where He is the glorified Head over all things 
 to the Church and our prevailing Intercessor with the 
 Father : who will there receive the departed souls of the 
 justified : and at the end of this world will come again and 
 rouse all the dead and will judge all according to their 
 works and justly execute his Judgment. 
 
 III. I believe that God the Holy Spirit was given by 
 the Father and the Son, to the prophets, apostles and 
 evangelists, to be their infallible guide in preaching and 
 recording the doctrine of salvation : and the witness of its 
 certain truth, by his manifold Divine operations : and to 
 question, illuminate and sanctify all the believers, that 
 they may renounce the flesh, the world and the devil. 
 And all that are thus sanctified are one holy and catholic 
 Church of Christ and must live in holy communion and 
 have the pardon of their sins and shall have everlasting 
 life. 
 
The Great Case Resolved, 39 
 
 The Covenant or Covenants. — Believing in God the 
 Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I do perfectly, absolutely 
 and resolutely give up myself to Him, my Creator and 
 reconciled God and Father, my Saviour and Sanctifier : 
 and repenting of my sins I renounce the devil, the world 
 and the sinful desires of the flesh : and denying myself and 
 taking up my cross, I consent to follow Christ the capta,in 
 of my salvation, in hope of His promised grace and glory. 
 
 A short Catechism for those that have learned the first. 
 
 Quest . I. What do you believe concerning God? 
 
 Ans. There is one only God, an infinite Spirit of life, 
 understanding and will, most perfectly powerful, wise and 
 good : the Father, the Word and the Spirit : the Creator, 
 Governor and End of all things : our absolute Owner, our 
 most just Ruler, and our most gracious and most amiable 
 Father. 
 
 Quest . 2. What believe you of the Creation, and the 
 nature of man and the law which was given to him ? 
 
 Ans. God created all the world : and made man in his 
 own image, an embodied spirit of life, understanding and 
 will, with holy liveliness, wisdom and love : to know and 
 and love serve his Maker here and for ever : and gave him 
 the inferior creatures for his use ; but forbad him to eat of 
 the tree of knowledge upon pain of death. 
 
 -,. Quest. 3. What believe you of man's fall into sin and 
 misery ? 
 
 Ans. Man being tempted by Satan, did by wilful sin- 
 ning fall from his holiness, his innocency, and his happi- 
 ness, under the justice of God, the condemnation of his 
 Law, and the slavery of the flesh, the world and the devil ; 
 whence sinful, guilty and miserable natures are propagated 
 to all mankind : and no mere creature is able to deliver us. 
 
 Quest. 4. What believe you of man's Redemption by 
 Jesus Christ? 
 
40 Instructions for a Holy Life. 
 
 Ans. God so loved the world that He gave His only 
 Son to be their Saviour : Who being God and One with 
 the Father, took our nature and became man : being con- 
 ceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary and 
 called Jesus Christ : Who was perfectly holy, without sin, 
 fulfilling all righteousness : and overcame the devil and the 
 world ; and gave himself a sacrifice for our sins, by suffering 
 a cursed death on the Cross to ransom us and reconcile 
 us unto God : and was buried and went among the dead : 
 the third day He rose again, having conquered death ; and 
 having sealed the New Covenant with His blood. He com- 
 manded His apostles and other ministers, to preach the 
 Gospel to all the world : and promised the Holy Ghost : 
 and then ascended into heaven, where He is God and 
 man, the glorified Head over all things to His Church, 
 and our prevailing intercessor with God the Father. 
 
 Quest. 5. What is the New Testament or Covenant or 
 law of grace ? 
 
 Ans. God through Jesus Christ doth freely give to all 
 mankind Himself, to be their reconciled God and Father, 
 the Son to be their Saviour, and the Holy Spirit to be 
 their Sanctifier, if they will believe and accept the gift and 
 will give up themselves to Him accordingly : repenting of 
 their sins and consenting to forsake the devil, the world 
 and the flesh, and sincerely, though not perfectly, to obey 
 Christ and the Spirit to the end, according to the law of 
 nature and the gospel institutions, that they may be glori- 
 fied in heaven for ever. 
 
 Quest. 6. What believe ye of the Holy Ghost ? 
 
 Ans. God the Holy Ghost was given by the Father 
 and the Son to the prophets, apostles and evangelists, to 
 be their infallible guide in preaching and recording the 
 doctrine of salvation : and the witness of its certain truth 
 by his manifold Divine operations. And He is given to 
 quicken, illuminate and sanctify all true believers, and to 
 save them from the devil, the world and the flesh. 
 
The Great Case Resolved, 41 
 
 Quest. 7. What believe *you of the holy Catholic 
 Church, the communion of saints and the forgiveness of 
 sins? 
 
 A71S. All that truly consent to the baptismal covenant, 
 are one sanctified Church or Body of Christ, and have com- 
 munion in the same spirit of faith and love, and have the 
 forgiveness of all their sins : and all that by baptism 
 sensibly covenant and that continue to profess Christianity 
 and holiness, are the universal visible Church or state : 
 and must keep holy communion with love and peace in 
 the particular Churches : in the doctrine, worship and order 
 instituted by Christ. 
 
 Qiiest. 8. What believe you of the Resurrection and 
 everlasting life ? 
 
 Ans. At death the souls of the justified go to happi- 
 ness with Christ, and the souls of the wicked to misery : 
 and at the end of the world Christ will come in glory and 
 will raise the bodies of all men from death and will judge 
 all according to their works : and the righteous shall go 
 into everlasting life where being made perfect themselves, 
 they shall see God and perfectly love and praise Him, with 
 Christ and all the glorified Church : and the rest into ever- 
 lasting punishment. 
 
 Quest. 9. You have told me what you believe : Tell me 
 now what is the full resolution and desire of your will con- 
 cerning all this which you believe. 
 
 Afis. Believing in God the Father, Son and Holy 
 Spirit, I do presently, absolutely and resolutely give up 
 myself to Him, my Creator and reconciled God and 
 Father, my Saviour and my Sanctifier ! And repenting of 
 my sins I renounce the devil, the world and the sinful 
 desires of the flesh. And denying myself and taking up 
 my cross, I consent to follow Christ, the captain of my 
 Salvation ; in hope of the grace and glory promised. 
 Which I daily desire and beg as He hath taught me saying 
 Our Father which art in heaven, etc. 
 
42 Insti'iidioJis fiV a Holy Life, 
 
 Quest. 10. What is the practice which by this covenant 
 you are obHged to ? 
 
 A?is, According to the law of nature and Christ's in- 
 stitutions I must — desiring perfection — sincerely obey Him 
 in a life of faith and hope and love : loving God as God 
 for Himself above all, and loving myself as His servant, 
 especially my soul, and seeking its holiness and salvation : 
 and loving my neighbour as myself I must avoid all 
 idolatry of mind and body, and must worship God according 
 to His Word, by learning and meditating on His Word : by 
 prayer, thanksgiving, and praise and use of his Sacrament.* 
 
 I must not profane but holily use His holy name : I must 
 keep holy the Lord's Day, especially in communion with 
 tlie Church-assemblies : I must honour and obey my pa- 
 rents, magistrates, pastors and other rulers : I must not 
 wrong my neighbour in thought, word or deed, in his soul, 
 his body, his chastity, estate, right or propriety [=pro- 
 perty] : but do him all the good I can : and do as I would 
 be done by : which is summed up in the Ten Command- 
 mxcnts ' God spake these words, saying,' etc. 
 
 A Prayer for Fainilies m the method of the Lord^s Prayer^ 
 beiiig but an Expositmi of it. Most glorious God, who art 
 Power and Wisdom and Goodness itself, the Creator of all 
 things : the Owner, the Ruler and the Benefactor of the 
 Avorld : though by sin, original and natural we were Thy 
 enemies, the slaves of Satan and our flesh, and under Thy 
 displeasure and the condemnation of Thy Law : yet Thy 
 children redeemed by Jesus Christ Thy Son, and regene- 
 rated by Thy Holy Spirit, have leave to call Thee their 
 reconciled Father. For by Thy covenant of grace Thou hast 
 given them Thy Son to be their Head, their Teacher and 
 their Saviour : and in Him Thou hast pardoned, adopted and 
 sanctified them : sealing and preparing them for Thy 
 
 * The Lord's Supper and other Church-ordinances are referred to in the Vlllth 
 day's Conference, and more fully in my ' Universal Concord.' — fSee my List of 
 Baxter's Writings. G.] 
 
TJie Great Case Resolved. 43 
 
 celestial kingdom and beginning in them that holy life and 
 light and love which shall be perfected with Thee in ever- 
 lasting Glory. O with what wondrous love hast Thou 
 loved us, that of rebels we should be made the sons of God ! 
 Thou hast advanced us to this dignity that we might be 
 elevated wholly to Thee as Thine own, and might delight- 
 fully obey Thee and actively love Thee with all our heart : 
 and so might glorify Thee here and forever. 
 
 O cause both us and all Thy churches, and all the 
 world, to hallow Thy great and holy name ! and to live to 
 Thee as our ultimate end : that Thy shining image and holy 
 soul may glorify Thy divine perfection. 
 
 And cause both us and all the earth to cast off the 
 tyranny of Satan and the flesh and to acknowledge Thy 
 supreme authority and to become the kingdoms of Thee 
 and Thy Son Jesus, by a willing and absolute subjection. 
 O perfect Thy kingdom of grace in ourselves and in the 
 world and hasten the kingdom of glory. 
 
 And cause us and thy churches and all people of the 
 earth no more to be ruled by the lusts of the flesh and 
 their erroneous conceits, and by self-will, which is the idol 
 of the wicked : but by Thy perfect wisdom and holy will 
 revealed in Thy laws. Make known Thy Word to all the 
 world and send them the messengers of grace and peace : 
 and cause men to understand, believe and obey the Gospel 
 of salvation, and that with such holiness, unity and love, 
 that the Earth which is now too like hell may be made 
 liker unto heaven : and not only Thy scattered, imperfect 
 flock but those also who in their carnal and ungodly minds 
 do now refuse a holy life and think Thy word and ways too 
 strict, may desire to imitate even the heavenly Church : 
 where Thou art obeyed and loved and praised, with high 
 delight, in harmony and perfection : 
 
 And because our being is the subject of our well-being, 
 maintain us in the life which Thou hast here given us, until 
 the work of life be finished : and give us such health of 
 
44 Instructio?is for a Holy Life. 
 
 mind and body and such protection and supply of all our 
 wants as shall fit us for our duty and make us contented 
 with our daily bread and patient if we want it. And 
 save us from the love of the riches and honours and plea- 
 sures of this world ; and the pride, and idleness and sen- 
 suality which they cherish. And cause us to serve Thy 
 Providence by our diligent labours, and to serve Thee 
 faithfully with all that Thou givest us. And let us not 
 make provision for the flesh to satisfy its desires and 
 lusts. 
 
 And we beseech Thee of Thy mercy, through the sacri- 
 fice and propitiation of Thy beloved Son, forgive us all our 
 sins, original and actual, from our birth to this hour : our 
 omissions of duty and committing what Thou didst forbid : 
 our sins of heart and word and deed ; our sinful thoughts 
 and affections, our sinful passions and discontents, our secret 
 and our open sins, our sins of negligence and ignorance 
 and rashness : but especially our sins against knowledge 
 and conscience, which have made the deepest guilt and 
 wounds. Spare us O Lord and let not our sins so find us 
 out as to be our ruin : but let us so find them out as truly 
 to repent and turn to Thee ! Especially punish us not with 
 the loss of Thy grace ! Take not Thy Holy Spirit from us 
 and deny us not Thy assistance and holy operations. 
 Seal to us by that Spirit the pardon of our sins, and lift up 
 the light of Thy countenance upon us and give us the joy 
 of Thy favour and salvation. And let thy love and mercy 
 so fill us not only with thankfulness to Thee : but with 
 love and mercy to our brethren and our enemies, that we 
 may heartily forgive them that do us wrong, as through Thy 
 grace we hope we do. And for the time to come, suffer us 
 not to cast ourselves wilfully into temptations : but care- 
 fully to avoid them and resolutely to resist and conquer 
 what we cannot avoid. And O sanctify those inward sins 
 and lusts which are our constant and most dangerous 
 temptations : and let us not be tempted by Satan or the 
 
I The Great Case Resolved. 45 
 
 world, or tried by Thy judgments above the strength which 
 Thy grace shall give us. Save us from a fearless confidence 
 in our own strength. And let us not dally with the snare 
 nor taste the bait nor play with the fire of Thy wrath : 
 but cause us to fear and depart from evil : lest before we 
 are aware we be entangled and overcome and wounded 
 with our guilt and with Thy wrath, and our end should be 
 worse than our beginning. Especially save us from those 
 radical sins of error and unbelief, pride, hypocrisy, hard- 
 heartedness, sensuality, slothfulness and the love of the 
 present world and the loss of our love to Thee, to Thy 
 kingdom and Thy ways. 
 
 And save us from the malice of Satan and of wicked 
 men and from the evils which our sins would bring upon 
 us. 
 
 And as we crave all this from Thee, we humbly render 
 our praises with our future service to Thee ! Thou art the 
 king of all the Avorld and more than the life of all the living ! 
 Thy kingdom is everlasting ! Wise and just and merciful is 
 Thy government. Blessed are they that are Thy faithful 
 subjects. But who hath hardened himself against Thee and 
 hath prospered? The whole creation proclaimeth Thy per- 
 fection : But it is to heaven where the blessed see Thy glory 
 and the glory of our Redeemer, where the angels and saints 
 behold Thee, admire Thee, adore Thee, love Thee, and 
 praise Thee with triumphant, joyful songs, the holy, holy, 
 holy God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, who was and is 
 and is to come. Of Thee and through Thee and to Thee 
 are all things. To Thee be glory for ever. Amen. 
 
 A Short Prayer for Families. 
 
 Most glorious, ever-Hving God, Father, Son and Holy 
 Ghost, infinite in Thy power, wisdom and goodness 1 
 Thou art the Author of all the world, the Redeemer of lost 
 mankind, and the Sanctifier of Thine elect ! Thou hast 
 
46 Insb'uctions for a Holy Life. 
 
 made us living, reasonable souls, placed awhile on earth in 
 flesh, to seek and know and love and serve Thee, which 
 we should have done with all our soul and might. For 
 we and all things are Thine own and Thou art more to us 
 than all the world. This should have been the greatest 
 business care and pleasure of our lives. We were bound 
 to it by Thy Law and invited by Thy love and mercy and 
 the promise of a reward in heaven. And in our baptism 
 we were devoted to this Christian life of faith and holiness, 
 by a solemn covenant and vow. But with grief and shame 
 we do confess that we have been too unfaithful to that 
 covenant and too much neglected the Lord our Father, 
 our Saviour and our Sanctifier, to whom we were devoted. 
 And have too much served the flesh and the world and 
 the devil which we renounced. We have added to our 
 original sin, the guilt of unthankfulness for a Saviour and 
 resisting the Spirit and grace that should have renewed, 
 governed and saved us. We have spent much of our lives 
 in fleshly and worldly vanity and wilfully neglected the 
 greatest work of making a sure preparation for death and 
 judgment and our endless state. In a custom of sinning 
 we have hardened our hearts against Thy Word and warn- 
 ings and the reproofs of thy ministers and of our con- 
 sciences that have oft told us of our sin and danger and 
 called us to repent. And now O Lord ! our convinced 
 souls confess that we deserve to be forsaken by Thee and 
 left to our own lust and folly and to the deceits of Satan 
 and unto endless misery. But seeing Thou hast given a 
 Saviour to lost man and a pardoning covenant through 
 the merits of Christ, promising forgiveness and salvation to 
 every true, penitent, believer, we thankfully accept Thy 
 offered mercy and penitently bewail our sin and cast our 
 miserable souls upon Thy grace and the sacrifice, merits 
 and intercession of our Redeemer. 
 
 Forgive all the sins of our hearts and lives; and as a 
 reconciled Father take us as Thy adopted children in 
 
The Great Case Resolved. 47 
 
 Christ. O give us Thy renewing Spirit to be in us a 
 powerful and constant author of holy light and love and 
 life, to fit us for all our duty and for communion with 
 Thee and for everlasting life. And to dw^ell in us as Thy 
 witness and seal of our adoption. Let Him be better to 
 our souls than our souls are to our bodies, teaching us Thy 
 word and will, and bringing all our love and will to a joyful 
 compliance with Thy will and quickening our dull and 
 drowsy hearts to a holy and heavenly conversation. Let 
 Him turn all our sinful pleasures and desires unto the 
 delightful love of Thee and of Thy ways and servants. 
 Save us from the great sins of selfishness pride and w^orld- 
 liness, and give us self-denial, humility and a heavenly 
 mind, that while we are on earth, our hearts m.ay be in 
 heaven, where w^e hope to live in Thy joyful love and 
 praise, with Christ and all His holy ones for ever. Let us 
 never forget that this life is short and that the life to come 
 is endless : that our souls are precious and our bodies vile 
 and must shortly turn to rottenness and dust : that sin is 
 odious and temptation dangerous and judgment dreadful 
 to unprepared, guilty souls : and that to them a Saviour 
 and His grace and Spirit there is no salvation. Cause us 
 to live as we would die, and let no temptation, company 
 or business, draw us to forget our God and our everlasting 
 state. 
 
 Lord bless the world, and specially these kingdoms, 
 with wise, godly, just and peaceable princes and inferior 
 judges and magistrates; and guide, protect and perfect 
 them for the common good and the promoting of godliness 
 and suppressing of sin. And bless all Churches with able, 
 godly, faithful Pastors, that are zealous lovers of God and 
 goodness and the people's souls. And save the nations 
 and churches from oppressing tyrants and deceivers, and 
 from malignant enemies to serious piety. And cause sub- 
 jects to live in just obedience and in love and peace. 
 Bless Families with wise, religious governors, who will care- 
 
48 I?istriictio?is for a Holy Life. 
 
 fully instruct their children and servants and restrain them 
 from sin and keep them from temptation. Teach children 
 and servants to fear God and honour and obey their 
 governors. 
 
 O our Father which art in heaven, let Thy name be 
 hallowed : Let Thy kingdom come : Let Thy will be done ^ 
 on earth as it is in heaven : Give us this day our daily 
 bread : Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that 
 trespass against us : Lead us not into temptation but de- 
 liver us from evil : for Thine is the kingdom, the power 
 and the glory for ever. Amen. 
 
 Before Meat, 
 Most gracious God, who hast given us Christ and with 
 Him all that is necessary to life and godliness : we thank- 
 fully take this our food as the gift of Thy bounty, procured 
 by Mis merits. Bless it to the nourishment and strength 
 of our frail bodies to fit us for Thy cheerful service. And 
 save us from the abuse of Thy mercies by gluttony, 
 drunkenness, idleness and sinful fleshly lusts, for the sake 
 of Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Lord. Amen. 
 
 After Meat, 
 
 Most merciful Father, accept of our thanks for these 
 and all Thy mercies : and give us yet more thankful 
 hearts. O give us more of the great mercies proper to 
 Thy children, even Thy sanctifying and comforting Spirit, 
 assurance of Thy love through Christ and a treasure and a 
 heart and conversation in heaven. And bring and keep 
 us in a constant readiness for a safe and comfortable 
 ' death : for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord and only 
 Saviour. Amen. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
OF THE 
 
 WRITINGS 
 
 - OF 
 
 RICHARD BAXTER 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 
 E\ft Saint's €&erlasttn3 Eest 
 
 Made fro77i 
 
 COPIES 
 
 OF 
 
 THE BOOKS AND TRACTATES 
 
 THEMSELVES 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, 
 
 LIVERPOOL. 
 
 ' How true time is to the real character of the men whose wrongs it avenges, and 
 whose merits it rewards ! The proverbial epithet "The holy Baxter" (like that 
 older one "The venerable Bede"), is just the verdict which a seraph "full of eyes 
 within and without," might be expected to pronounce after having deliberately 
 reviewed the whole history and works of the sage of Kidderminster." 
 
 Henry Rogers, author of ' The Eclipse of Faith,' etc. etc. 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 
 1868. 
 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 HOPE to be able to complete in a goodly numbei 
 iM^ of years hence a ''labour of love'' on which I have 
 been long occupied viz., a full and accurate enume- 
 ration of the Writings of the Puritans, earlier and later, 
 and of the ' Ejected* of 1662 — from a personal examina- 
 tion of their books and tractates themselves, not from 
 Catalogues or other compilations. This, preparatory to 
 an Introduction to the Theological Literature of oiu: 
 Country. 
 
 I offer meanwhile the present ' Annotated List ' of the 
 numerous Works of Richard Baxter as a specimen of 
 the Catalogue I propose to draw up. I venture to believe 
 that it will be found accurate, and much more extensive 
 than any extant. With the trifling exceptions noted in 
 their places it has been my rare good fortune to have had 
 access to the entire Writings of our Worthy in the original 
 and early editions. Nearly all indeed, are contained in my 
 own Libraiy. In the Catalogue above promised ( ' if the 
 Lord will') I intend adding (a) Those books to which 
 Baxter prefixed ' Preface ' or ^ Epistle ' (h) Manuscripts 
 in Williams' Library and elsewhere — (c) Translations of his 
 Writings {d) Books and tractates in controversy, or other- 
 wise relating to him. (a) Will bring up the List to (it is 
 
4 ' Prefatory Note. 
 
 believed) 200 distinct publications : and I may observe 
 that many of his ^ Prefaces ' and ^ Epistles ' are really 
 priceless * Essays' and even treatises on the subject of 
 which they treat.* 
 
 This is not the place to enter on an examination of 
 the characteristics of the Writings recorded in this List. 
 The great Dr Isaac Barrow long ago said of them — " His 
 practical writings were never mended, and his controversial 
 ones seldom confuted" [Calamy * Account' vol. i. p. 422]: 
 Bishop Wilkins observed, " He cultivated every subject 
 he handled, and if he had lived in the primitive times he 
 had been one of the Fathers of the Church. It is enough 
 for one age to produce such a person as Richard Baxter ' 
 ['Gift of Preaching']; and, stout Churchman though he 
 was, — Dr Samuel Johnson, when he was asked by Boswell 
 what works of Baxter he should read, said, "' Read any of 
 them: they are all good' ['Life' c. Ixxvi] : and again 
 and again shewed that he had himself read them. He 
 deemed it a sufficient reason for resolving to study a 
 treatise of Grotius that Baxter had recommended it. [See 
 ' Life ' under Baxter, for various references]. 
 
 * There have been many exaggerations of the extent of Baxter's Works : but 
 the most astounding is the following from Drs M'Ciintock's and Strong's " Cyclo- 
 paedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. I. A B. New 
 York 1867 sub 7ioinine " In all he is said to have composed one hundred and forty- 
 five works in folio and sixty-three in quarto, besides a multitude of more trifling 
 writings ! ' A number of treatises in Latin are named that have no existence : the 
 explanation being that the writer of the 'notice' was copying from some conti- 
 nental bibliographic work wherein the English titles are rendered into Latin, as 
 Walch does.' — All the Lists of Baxter and of our Theology that I have met with 
 commit like blunders from their second-hand character. This renders Watt's 
 Bibliotheca, Allibone et hoc genns omne unreliable. — Orme's List at close of his 
 * Life ' of Baxter (Vol. L of the ' Practical Works,' 23 vols. 8vo. 1850) extends to 
 168: and it is one of many illustrations of the worthlessness of any such enumera- 
 tion taken at second-hand. It not only splits up one work into several, but so mis- 
 divides others as to show that he had never seen the books or tractates, relying 
 on Calamy and Catalogues. The same remark, somewhat modified, applies to the 
 list in Darling's * Cyclopaedia Bibliographica,' etc. etc. 
 
Prefatory Note, 5 
 
 I close this * Note' with Baxter's own * censure ' 
 (Calamy's word) of his Writings, which, to my mind, is very 
 beautiful in its humility : " concerning almost all my Writ- 
 ings, I must confess that my own judgment is that fewer 
 well studied and polished would have been better : but the 
 reader who can safely censure the books is not fit to cen- 
 sure the Author, unless he had been upon the place 
 and acquainted with all the occasions and circumstances. 
 Indeed, for the Saiiifs Rest I had four months vacancy to 
 write it (but in the midst of continual languishing and 
 medicine). But for the rest I wrote them in the crowd of 
 my other employments which would allow me no great 
 leisure for polishing and exactness or any ornament : so 
 that I scarce ever wrote one sheet twice over nor stayed 
 to make any blots or interlinings, but was fain to let it go 
 as it was first conceived. And when my own desire was 
 rather to stay upon one thing long than run over many, 
 some sudden occasions or other, extorted almost all my 
 writings from me : and the apprehensions of present use- 
 fulness or necessity, prevailed against all other motives. 
 So that the Divines which were at hand with me still put 
 me on and approved of what I did, because they were 
 moved by present necessities as well as I : but those that 
 were far off and felt not these nearer motives, did rather 
 wish that I had taken the other way and published a few 
 elaborate writings : and I was ready myself to be of their 
 mind when I forgot the case that then I stood in and have 
 lost the sense of former motives. The opposing of the 
 Anabaptists, Separatists, Quakers, Antinomians, Seekers, 
 etc., were works which then seemed necessary: and so did 
 the debates about the church-government and communion, 
 which touched our present practice. But now all those 
 
6 Prefatory Note, 
 
 reasons are past and gone I could wish I had rather been 
 doing some work of more durable usefulness. But even to 
 a foreseeing man who knoweth what will be of longest use, 
 it is hard to discern how far that which is presently useful 
 may be omitted for the sake of a greater future good. 
 There are some other works wherein my heart hath more 
 been set than any of these fore-mentioned : in which I 
 have met with great obstructions. For I must declare 
 that in this as among other matters I have found that we 
 are not the choosers of our own employments, no more 
 than of our own successes.' [Reliquiae Lib. i. page 124] — 
 Curiously enough the most imperfect and inaccurate list of 
 Baxter's Writings is his own in the ' Reliquiae.' He 
 forgot many, and ante-dates and post-dates, and otherwise 
 mis-describes. 
 
 It will much oblige me if any one who chances to see 
 thife booklet will kindly inform me where I can find the 
 few in this List uncollated : and also any of the earlier 
 (contemporary) translations into German, Dutch, French, 
 etc. I shall cordially acknowledge help rendered. 
 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART. 
 
 Liverpool, 
 
annotated list of baxter's 
 writings! 
 
 I. Aphorismes of Justifica- 
 tion, with their Explication an- 
 nexed. Wherein also is opened 
 the nature of the Covenants, 
 Satisfaction, Righteousnesse, Faith, 
 Works, &c. Published especially 
 for the use of the Church of Keder- 
 minster in Worcestershire. By 
 their unworthy Teacher Ri. Bax- 
 ter. Hebr. 9. 15. London, 
 Printed for Francis Tyton, at the 
 Three Daggers in Fleet Street, 
 neer the Inner - Temple Gate. 
 1649 [i8mo]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — the Epistle 
 Dedicatory ' To the learned, zealous, 
 faithfiill ministers of Jesus Christ, Mr 
 Richard Vines, Master of Pembroke- 
 Hall in Cambridge and Mr Anthony 
 Burges, Pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in 
 Warwickshire, members of the Reverend 
 Assembly of Divines, my very much 
 valued friends and brethren in the work 
 and patience of the Gospel' pp. 10-^ to 
 the Reader pp. 21 — treatise pp. 335 — * the 
 chief-distinctions upon which this dis- 
 course dependeth' pp. 11 — postcript 
 1 page. 
 
 The ' Aphorisms ' appears to have 
 been submitted to some friend in manu- 
 script ; for in complete copies of the 
 book there is found the following: — 
 
 ' An Appendix to the foregoing Treatise 
 being an answer to the Objections of a 
 Friend concerning some points therein 
 contained, and at his own desire annexed 
 for the sake of others that may have 
 the same thoughts,' pp. 188. 
 
 In the ^ Reliquice Bax'teriance^ [No. 
 cliv.] Baxter gives a characteristic ac- 
 
 count of the origin and reception of the 
 'Aphorisms.' He recognizes with rare 
 candour the ability and worth of those 
 who wrote against his book. See Part I. 
 pp. 107-108 ; and cf Calamy's Abridge- 
 ment Vol. I. pp. 410-41 1. My friend 
 Joshua Wilson Esq. of Tunbridge Wells, 
 has an edition of the 'Aphorisms' [1655 
 24mo] bearing the imprint of 'the 
 Hague: ' but which was actually printed 
 at Cambridge: See Baxter's 'Catholic 
 Theology,' Preface p. v. : also Answer to 
 Dr Tullie's Letter,' p. 10 on this surrepti- 
 tiotis edition. 
 
 Mr Wilson's copy formerly belonged to 
 the Author himself. There are some 
 MS. corrections by him and some critical 
 remarks on a fly-leaf before the title- 
 page, concluding thus * All which I have 
 fully open'd in many books written long 
 after this upon riper thoughts : this being 
 the first that ever I wrote in my imma- 
 ture youth, in the crudity of my new con- 
 ceptions. Cf. Orme's Life and Times 
 of Baxter, II. 38. In the ' Postscript ' 
 (above noted) reference is made to an 
 intended publication ' Universal Redemp- 
 tion ' [No. CLIV.] but which he postponed 
 because of ' continued sickness' and as 
 also ' observing how many lately are set 
 a-work on the same subject, as Whit- 
 field, Stalham, Howe, Owen, and some 
 men of note now upon it.' In a short 
 address to the Reader prefixed to the 
 ' Appendix ' we have this apology. ' The 
 disorder of the interrogations and objec- 
 tions which extorted from me this whole 
 tractate by pieces one after another, 
 hath caused me — an unfeigned lover of 
 method — to give thee such a disorderly, 
 unmethodical miscellany;' and again, 
 after explanations ' These things need 
 no excuse but this information : That I 
 was to follow and not to lead, and that I 
 
Annotated List of the 
 
 wrote only for those who knew less than 
 myself. If thou know more, thank God 
 and join with me for the instruction of 
 the ignorant, whose information, refor- 
 mation and salvation, and thereby God's 
 glory is the top of my ambition.' For 
 notices of Vines and B urges (or Burgess} 
 to whom the * Aphorisms ' is dedicated, 
 see Brook's ' Lives of the Puritans ' for 
 the former [Vol. III. pp. 230-235], and for 
 the latter Calamy ''Account'' [Vol. II. 
 pp. 739-740 and page 853 ' Contimia- 
 tioH.''] 
 
 II. The Saint's Everlast- 
 ing Rest : or a Treatise of the 
 blessed state of the Saints in their 
 enjoyment of God in Glory. 
 Wherein is shewed its excellency 
 and certainty ; the misery of those 
 that lose it, the way to attain it 
 and assurance of it ; and how to 
 live in the continual delightful 
 foretasts of it by the help of medi- 
 tation. Written by the Author 
 for his own use in the time of his 
 languishing, when God took him 
 off from all publike imployment ; 
 and afterwards preached in his 
 weekly Lecture : and now pub- 
 lished by Richard Baxter, Teacher 
 of the Church of Kederminster in 
 W^orestershire. London, Printed 
 by Rob. White for Thomas Un- 
 derhil and Francis Tyton, and are 
 to be sold at the Blue Anchor and 
 Bible in Pauls Church-yard, near 
 the little North-door, and at the 
 three Daggers in Fleetstreet, near 
 the Inner-Temple gate. 1650 [4°.] 
 
 (i) 1st edn. 1650. Collation : Title- 
 page [on which is the ' License ' thus 
 * Jan. 15, 1649. Imprimatur, Joseph 
 Caryl ' the ' Licenser ' being the erudite 
 and venerable Commentator on ' Job '] — 
 Epistle Dedicatory of ' the whole ' book 
 to * my dearly beloved friends, the in- 
 habitants of the Burrough and Sovereign 
 of Kederminster, both magistrates and 
 people' pp. 11 — Epistle Dedicatory of 
 ' the First Part ' to ' the right Worship- 
 ful vSir Thomas Rous, Baronet, with the 
 Lady Jane Rous, his wife ' pp. 3 — Con- 
 tents or Table pp. 8 — Treatise as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 1st Part pp. 164— On page 164 
 * Finis' — Next a separate title * The 
 Saint's Everlasting Rest. The Se- 
 
 cond Part. Containing the Proofes 
 of the Truth and certain futurity 
 of our Rest. And that the Scrip- 
 ture promising that Rest to us is 
 the perfect infallible Word and 
 Law of God. London, Printed 
 by Rob. White for T. Underbill 
 and F. Tyton, and are to be sold 
 at the sign of the Bible in great 
 Woodstreet and at the three dag- 
 gers in Fleet -street, 1649. 
 
 Then, Epistle Dedicatory * To 
 my dearly beloved Friends the 
 inhabitants of Bridgnorth, both 
 magistrates and people. Richard 
 Baxter devoteth this part of this 
 Treatise. In testimony of his un- 
 feigned love to them who were the 
 first to v/hom he was sent (or 
 fixed) to publish the Gospel. And 
 in thankfulness to the Divine Ma- 
 jesty who there priviledged and 
 protected him' pp. 2 — To the 
 Reader pp. 8, dated 'Jan. 18, 
 1649 — Part II. pp. 167-260. 
 Next, a separate title The Saint's 
 Everlasting Rest. The Third 
 Part. Containing severall Uses 
 of the former Doctrine of Rest. 
 London [as before]. . Then, Epis- 
 tle Dedicatory ' To my dearly be- 
 loved Friends the inhabitants of the 
 city of Coventry both magistrates 
 and people : especially Col. John 
 Barker and Col. Tho. Willoughby, 
 late Governors, with all the offi- 
 cers and. soldiers of their garrison. 
 Rich. Baxter devoteth this Part of 
 this Treatise in thankful acknow- 
 ledgment of their great affection 
 toward him and ready acceptance 
 of his labors among them — 
 which is the highest recompense, 
 if joyned with obedience, that 
 a faithful minister can expect, 
 pp. 2.— Part in. pp. 263-551. 
 Next a separate title ' The Saint's 
 Everlasting Rest. The Fourth 
 Part. Containing a Directory for 
 the getting and keeping of the 
 heart in heaven : by the diligent 
 practice of that excellent unknown 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 duty of Heavenly Meditation. 
 Being the main thing intended by 
 the Author in the writing of this 
 book : and to which all the rest is 
 but subservient. London [as be- 
 fore]. Then, Epistle Dedicatory 
 
 * To my dearly beloved friends in 
 the Lord, the inhabitants of the 
 town of Shrewsbury, both magis- 
 trates, ministers, and people, as 
 also of the neighbouring parts. 
 Rich. Baxter devoteth this practi- 
 cale part of this Treatise as a tes- 
 timony of his love to his native soyl 
 and to his many godly and faithfull 
 friends there living' pp. 2 — The 
 Introduction pp. 555-558— Pt. 
 IV. pp. 559-848— On fly-leaf, 
 first side ' Errata, ' headed ' If you 
 will reade nothing but what was 
 intended by the Author amend 
 these misprintings : the rest are 
 but small. ' 
 
 (2) 2d edn. 165 1. Same title- 
 page except 'The second edition 
 corrected and enlai^ged,' and 'Un- 
 derbill ' spelled so and not with a 
 single 1 as in 1st edn. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Ep : Dedy. 
 pp. 13 — to Rous pp. 3 — A Premonition 
 
 * as to alterations and additions ' pp. 12 
 dated ' May 17, 1651 ' a singularly inte- 
 resting autobiographic Address — Con- 
 tents pp. 8 ' Errata ' on the last page — 
 Pt. I, pp. 184 — separate title — as before 
 — London [as in general title, S7iprd\ — 
 Ep : Dedy. pp. 2 — the Preface pp. 35 val- 
 uable and searching — Pt. II. pp. 185-304. 
 
 , Separate title [as before] — Ep. 
 Dedy pp. 2 — Pt. III. pp., 312 [se- 
 parate pagination] ' Finis ' on page 
 312 — Separate title — [as before] — 
 Ep. Dedy. i page — 'the Intro- 
 duction pp. 4-6 — Pt. IV. pp. 7-304 
 [also separate pagination ']. 
 
 (3) Zd edn : 1652 — Title-page as 
 before except ' The third edition ' 
 and at bottom 'by Rob. White' 
 left out. 
 
 Collation: Title-page. Ep : Dedy pp. 
 13 — to Rous pp. 3. Premonition [which 
 still reads as for 'second' edn.] pp. 12. 
 'Contents pp. 8. Pt. I. pp. 184. Separate 
 
 tide. Ep : Dedy. pp. 2. Preface pp. 35. 
 Pt. II. pp. 185-304. Separte title. Ep : 
 Dedy pp. 2. Pt. III. pp. 368 [separate 
 pagn.] Separate title. Ep. : Dedy. i 
 page. Introdn. pp. 4-6. Pt. IV. pp. 7-304. 
 Then ' Broughton in the conclusion of 
 his concent of Scripture' pp. 305-308. 
 Herbert's poem of ' Home ' pp. 309-311. 
 Questions discussed i page. Alphabeti- 
 cal Table pp. 4. 
 
 \* ' Finis on page 304 : and what fol- 
 lows after awanting. 
 
 (4) 4.^/1 edn. 1653. Title-page 
 as before except ' The fourth edi- 
 tion. ' 
 
 Collation : Title-page. Ep. Dedy. pp. 
 13 — to Rous pp. 3. Premonition [still as 
 before] pp. 12. Contents pp. 8. Pt. I. po. 
 
 183- 
 
 At page 160 follows in this edition two 
 and a half pages unpaged confessing a 
 mistake in 'doctrine' 1 very curious). Then 
 goes on from the last of these pages, and 
 so pp. 161 to 1S3 as supra — which ex- 
 plains the mispaging of 183 instead of 
 184. Separate title. Ep. Dedy. on re- 
 verse. Preface pp. 35. Pt. II. 185-304, 
 Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2. Pt. III. 
 pp. 368 ' Finis ' on page 36S [as before]. 
 Separate title. Ep. Dy. on page 3. 
 Intro, pp. 4-6. Pt. IV. pp. 7-304 : and as 
 in 3d edn. follg. 
 
 (5) ^th edn. 1654. Title-page 
 as iDcfore except ' The fifth edition. ' 
 All as before but after the final 
 Table 'An Addition to the nth 
 chapter of the 3d Part' pp. 8. 
 
 (6) 6//^ edn. 1656. Title-page 
 as before except ' The sixth edn. ' 
 All exactly as before in 5th edn. 
 *^*In Abp. Marsh's 'Library' 
 Dublin, the copy of this edition has 
 the autograph of Mich. Jephson 
 and th Greek motto Tzavraxr] r']iv 
 d\r)9eLav 
 
 (7) 71/1 edn. 1658. Title-page 
 same as before except ' The seventh 
 edition revised by the Author.' 
 Prefixed is a curious emblematical 
 engraved title. 
 
 Collation: Title-page as snpra. Ep. 
 Dy. pp. II — to Rous pp. 2. Premonition 
 pp. 7 [as before] Contents pp. 5. Pt. I. 
 pp. 153. Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2. 
 Preface pp. 159-187. Pt. II. pp. 189-291. 
 Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2. Pt. III. 
 pp. 297-580. Separate title. Ep. Dy. 
 pp. 2. Intro, pp. 2. Pt. III. 587-815. 
 Then as before pp. 817-829. But then pp. 
 
lO 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 830-836 dated 'Jan. 15, 1657' to the 
 Reader added. Table pp. 3. 
 
 (8) %th edit. 1659. Title-pages 
 as in 7th : except * the eighth 
 edition.' All the rest the same 
 as 7th. 
 
 (9) ^th edn. I have not hap- 
 pened to meet with this. 
 
 (10) \0thed71, 1669. Title-pages 
 as before, except 'the tenth edi- 
 tion.' All the rest the same — 
 but publisher as follows 'London 
 Printed by R. W. for Francis 
 Tyton and are to be sold at the 
 sign of the three daggers in Fleet 
 Street.' 
 
 (11) wth edn. 1671 and also one 
 so designated 1677. Title-pages 
 as before, except ' the eleventh 
 edition' — and added to publisher 
 as follows ' And R-obert Boulter 
 at the Turk's Head over against 
 the Royal Exchange in Cornhil.' 
 All the rest the same. 
 
 %* Portrait is sometimes inserted 
 
 * aetat 55, 1670.' 
 
 (12) \2thedn. 1688. Same book 
 in all respects but pp. 796 instead 
 of pp. 836 as sup7^a. t^" I note 
 that after the ' Restoration' the 
 famous passage in which the Pa- 
 triots of the Commonwealth are 
 named as in gloiy, is omitted. Cf 
 page 86 of ist edition : page 10 1 
 of 2d, ditto of 3d to 6th, page 83 
 of 7th and 8th : left out in loth 
 page 83 — Such names were not to 
 be exposed to the contumely of a 
 degenerate succeeding generation. 
 
 *^ It will interest the Reader to have 
 Baxter's own account of this imperish- 
 able book from the 'Reliquiae:' — 'The 
 .second book which I wrote — and the 
 first which I began — was that called 
 
 * The Saint's Everlasting Rest : * Whilst I 
 was in health I had not the least thought 
 of writing books or of serving God in 
 any more public way than preaching. 
 But when I was weakened with great 
 bleeding and left solitary in my chamber 
 at Sir John Cook's [Coke's.?] in Derby- 
 shire without any acquaintance but my 
 servant about me, and was sentenced to 
 death by the physicians, I began to con- 
 template more .seriously on the Everlast- 
 
 ing Rest which I apprehended myself to 
 be just on the borders of. And that my 
 thoughts might not too much scatter in 
 my meditation I began to write some- 
 thing on that subject, intending but the 
 quantity of a sermon or two — which is 
 the cause that the beginning is in brevity 
 and style disproportionable to the rest : 
 but being continued long in weakness 
 where I had no books nor no better em- 
 ploj'ment I followed it on till it was en- 
 larged to the bulk in which it was pub- 
 lished. The first three weeks I spent on 
 it was at Mr Nowel's house at Kirby- 
 JNIallory in Leicestershire ; a quarter of a 
 year more at the seasons which so great 
 weakness would allow, I bestowed on it 
 at Sir Thomas Rous's house at Rous- 
 Lench in Worcestershire ; and I finished 
 it shortly after at Kidderminster. The 
 first and last parts were first done, being 
 all that I intended for my own use : and 
 the second and third parts came after- 
 wards in besides my own intention. This 
 Book it pleased God so far to bless to the 
 profit of many that it encouraged me to 
 be guilty of all those scripts which after 
 followed. The marginal citations I put 
 in after I came home to my books ; but 
 almost all the book itself was written 
 when I had no book but a Bible and 
 a Concordance ; and I found that the 
 transcript of the heart hath the greatest 
 force on the hearts of others. For the 
 good that I have heard that multitudes 
 received by that writing and the benefits 
 which 1 have again received by their 
 prayers I here humbly return my thanks 
 to Him that compelled me to write it." 
 [_As before Part 1. page 108.] To this it 
 were a pleasant but here an impossible, 
 task to cull the many tributes paid to 
 this holy and hallowing book by the 
 foremost men of this generation : and 
 equallyso to record actual cases of highest 
 good done by it in all ranks and lan- 
 guages. Of the latter I would remind 
 of the conversion thereby of Janeway 
 [See his "Life"]: and may mention a 
 very interesting fact, viz., that in Apsley 
 House, shortly after the death of the 
 Duke of Wellington I was shewn a copy 
 of ' The Saint's Everlasting Rest ' [Faw- 
 cett's abridged edition] with a corner of 
 a leaf turned down to mark the place 
 where the great Soldier had " left off" 
 on departing f<ir Walincr Castle. // is 
 the last book his Craco is /c!to~o7t to Juxve 
 read: and that within a 'icw days of 
 " the end." It is fine to think of " the 
 old grey head " bent over the old Puri- 
 tan's heaven-disclosing book. 
 
 III. Plain Scripture Proof of 
 Infants Church-membership and 
 Baptism : being the Arguments 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 \ prepared for (and partly managed) 
 , in the publike Dispute with Mr 
 Tombes at Bewdley on the first 
 day of January 1649. With a full 
 Reply to what he then answered 
 and what is contained in his 
 Sermon since preached, in his 
 printed Books, his MS. on i Cor. 
 7. 14 which I saw, against Mr 
 Marshall against these arguments. 
 "With a Reply to his valedictory 
 oration at Bewdley and a Correc- 
 tive for his Antidote. By Richard 
 Baxter, a Minister of Christ for his 
 Church at Kederminster. Con- 
 strained unavoidably hereto by 
 Mr Tombes, his importunity : by 
 frequent Letters, Messengers, in 
 his Pulpit, and at last in print, 
 calling out for my arguments and 
 charging the denial upon my 
 conscience. Hereto is added an 
 Appendix against the Doctrine 
 in the other extream contained in 
 a tractate of Mr Th. Bedford's 
 adorned with the great names and 
 pretended concent of famous 
 learned Dr Davenant and Dr 
 Usher ; and with an Epistle of Mr 
 Cranford's, and a tractate of Dr 
 Ward's (on which also some Ani- 
 madversions are added. ) London, 
 printed for Robert White 1651. 
 [Sm. 4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — two leaves of 
 quotations from Scripture, the Fathers, 
 etc. Epistle Dedicatory in double 
 columns headed respectively 'To the 
 Church at Kederminster, my dearly be- 
 loved, my crown and my joy' and 'To 
 the Church at Bewdley, my unfaignedly 
 beloved friends in the Lord ' pp. 11, 'The 
 true History of the Conception and 
 Nativity of this treatise ; being the 
 author's Apology for his attempt of this 
 unpleasant task ' pp. 25. The Contents, 
 with Errata, on last page pp. 10, Treatise 
 pp. 1-286. 
 
 After page 162 a separate title 'An 
 Answer to Mr Tombes his valedictory 
 oration to the people of Berdley : in Vin- 
 dication of the fifth Direction which I 
 give my hearers of Kederminster in the 
 Preface of my book, entituled ' The vSaint's 
 Everlasting Rest' with a brief confutation 
 of six more of Mr T.'s errors and a Cor- 
 
 rection for his Antidote and Confutation- 
 Sermon, Being the third part of this 
 treatise. Extorted unavoidably from one 
 that abhorreth division and contention 
 and bendeth his prayers and studies for 
 the peace of the Church. London, printed 
 Anno Dom. 165 1 After page 233 another 
 separate title ' A Corrective for a circum- 
 foraneous Antidote against the verity of 
 a passage in the Epistle before my treat- 
 ise of Rest. London [as before.] 
 
 After page 286 there is a separate title- 
 page as follows, 'An Appendix being 
 some brief Animadversions on a Tractate 
 lately published by Mr Th. Bedford ; 
 and honored with the great names and 
 pretended consent of famous, learned, 
 judicious Davenant and Usher, with an 
 Epistle of Mr Cranford, and a tractate 
 of Dr Ward (on which also some Animad- 
 versions are added). Also an Addition 
 to the fifteenth argument, chap, 20. of 
 the first part of this book concerning the 
 Universal Visible Church, occasioned by 
 Mr Sam: Hudson's most judicious 
 Vindication. And some Arguments 
 against the old and new Socinians, who 
 deny the continued use of Baptism to 
 settled Churches, occasioned by the late 
 eruption of that error. London, Printed 
 Anno Dom. 1651.' A Premonition to 
 the Reader pp. 289-290, Quotations pp. 
 291-292. Treatise pp. 293-343, The 
 conclusion of this treatise page 344. 
 Postscript 346. 
 
 See ''ReliquicE'' for remarks by 
 Baxter on the * Plain Scripture 
 Proof and certain opinions con- 
 cerning the ' salvation ' of children. 
 [As before, Pt. I. p. 109] A ' Post- 
 script ' to 'Plain Scripture Proof 
 (pp. 345, 346) contains a curious 
 'intimation' concerning the 'Apho- 
 risms' [See No. L] and asks that 
 before a ' second edition ' be pub- 
 lished all v/ho love the truth will 
 send the Author their ' Animad- 
 versions ' that he may himself profit 
 and good otherwise be done. 
 
 See the ^ Reliqtiice'' also for the 
 circumstances out of which this 
 book sprang and various interest- 
 ing details concerning its influ- 
 ence : and for an explicit statement 
 of Baxter's opinion on Infant-sal- 
 vation as distinguished from Infant- 
 baptism (merely) — 1^° ORMEgives 
 the ' Animadversions ' on Bedford 
 and ' Letters ' to and from Tombes, 
 
Annotated List of the 
 
 etc. , as distinct works, one of many 
 mistakes whereby he over-extends 
 his List of Baxter's Writings and 
 betrays not having seen the books 
 themselves. 
 
 *** The * fourth edition ' of ' Plain 
 Scripture Proof 1656 (4") 'printed for 
 T. U. F. T. and are to be sold by John 
 Wright at the King's Head in the Old 
 Bailey' has considerable additions e.g. 
 after page 346. ' A Friendly Accom- 
 modation in the fore-debated Contro- 
 versie between Mr Bedford and the 
 Author : wherein is manifested that the 
 Differences are few and small ; and 
 those continued with mutual respect and 
 love. London, Printed Anno Dom. 
 1656. On reverse of title a ' Note to 
 Reader ' — pp. 347-367. Then another : 
 * PraefestinantisMorator' or MrTombes 
 his Precursor staid and examined, and 
 proved not to be from heaven but of man. 
 Yet God by Mr T. sendeth thus truth to 
 the hearts of all whom it may concern 
 Proecurs. page 82, 83 [Pastors and Teach- 
 ers or Presbyters to teach and govern 
 the Church of God I am assured are a 
 Divine institution and a very merciful 
 gift of Christ, Ephesians iv. 11, 12, 13: 
 I Corinthians xii. 28: Acts xiv. 23: 
 I Timothy iii. i : Titus ii. 5 to whom 
 people should yield obedience Hebrews 
 xiii. 7, 17 and yield maintenance liberally 
 I Corinthians ix. 14: Galatians vi. 6: 
 I Timothy v. 17, 18. If any go about to 
 extirpate them, let him be accursed as an 
 enemy to Christ and his Church.] Or 
 if Socinus be of more authority with them 
 let them receive the same truth from 
 their Cracovian Catech. de Eccles. cap. 2. 
 London, Printed in the year 1656. Con- 
 tents pp. 371-372. Treatise pp. 373-401. 
 Then * Letters that passed between Mr 
 Baxter and Mr Tombes concerning the 
 Dispute. London Printed in the year 
 1656. On reverse of title a * Note ' on 
 the publication. Letters pp. 405-415. 
 
 IV. The Right Method for a 
 settled Peace of Conscience and 
 Spiritual Comfort. In 32 Direc- 
 tions. Written for the use of a 
 troubled friend : and now pub- 
 lished by Richard Baxter, Teacher 
 of the Church at Kederminster in 
 Worcestershire. London, Printed 
 for T. Underbill, F. Tyton and 
 W. Raybould, and are to be sold 
 at the Anchor and at the Unicorn 
 in Pauls Church-yard, and at 
 
 the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet 
 1653 [12°.] 
 
 Collation : i Leaf of texts of Scripture 
 and at the end ' Sound doctrine makes 
 a sound judgment, a sound heart, a 
 sound conversation, and a sound con- 
 science ' — Epistle Dedicatory ' to my 
 much valued, beloved and honored 
 friends Col. John Bridges, with Mrs 
 Margaret Bridges his wife, and Mr 
 Thomas Foley with Mrs Anne Foley, 
 his wife," pp. 12 — To the poor in spirit, 
 pp. 23 — The contents pp. 15 — Errata i 
 page — Treatise pp. 540, 
 
 In the ' Reliquice ' is given an 
 account of the origin of this search- 
 ing and still potential book — [As 
 before Pt. I. pp. 109-110] — Bax- 
 ter mentions that it had ' pleased 
 much, Dr Hammond :' but adds 
 ' the women and weaker sort I 
 found could not so well improve 
 clear reason as they can a few 
 comfortable, warm and pretty sen- 
 tences ; it is style and not reason 
 which doth most with them. And 
 some of the Divines were angry 
 with it for a passage or two about 
 Perseverance, because I had said 
 that many men are certain of their 
 present sanctifi cation which are 
 not certain of their perseverance 
 and salvation : meaning all the 
 godly that are assured of their 
 sanctification and yet do not hold 
 the certainty of perseverance. But 
 a great storm of jealousie and 
 censure was by this and some such 
 words raised against me, by many 
 good men, who lay more on their 
 opinions and party than they ought. 
 Therefore whereas some would 
 have had me to retract it and 
 others to leave it out of the next 
 impression, I did the latter, but 
 instead of it I published not long 
 after my book called ' ' R. B. 's 
 Judgment about the Perseverance 
 of Believers. " [I;ifra. ] 
 
 %* In the same year " the second edi- 
 tion, corrected and augmented " the 
 augmentation consisting of "An Apo- 
 logie " at the end (pp. 19} explanatory of 
 certain portions. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 13 
 
 V. Christian Concord : or the 
 Agreement of the Associated Pas- 
 tors and Churches of Worcester- 
 shire. With Rich. Baxter's Ex- 
 pHcation and Defence of it and 
 his Exhortation to Unity. Lon- 
 don Printed by A. M. for Thomas 
 Underhill, at the Anchor and 
 Bible in Pauls Church-yard near 
 the little north-door, and Francis 
 Tyton at the three Daggers in 
 Fleet-street near Dunstans Church. 
 1653 [4°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Passages o^ 
 Scripture pp. 2 — Propositions agreed on 
 pp. 13 — the Profession of the Associated 
 Churches pp. 6 — A separate title as fol- 
 lows : — ' An Explication of some Pas- 
 sages in the foregoing Proposition and 
 Profession, with an answer to some 
 Objections that are like to be made 
 against them. Written by Rich. Bax- 
 ter to prevent the causless dissent and 
 separation of any sincere Christians from 
 our Churches or sincere Ministers from 
 our Associations. Especially for the 
 satisfaction of the inhabitants of Keder- 
 minster. London [as before] — Contents 
 on reverse — Treatise pp. 120 — Errata 
 slip pasted on page 120. 
 
 *** See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. pp. 112- 
 113] for powerful statement of the occa- 
 sion of this book. 
 
 VI. & VII. The Worcestershire 
 Petition to the Parliament for the 
 Ministry of England Defended, by a 
 Minister of Christ in that Country ; 
 in Answer to XVI. Queries, Print- 
 ed in a Book, called a Brief Dis- 
 covery of the three-fold Estate of 
 Anti- Christ : Where unto is added 
 
 Counter- Queries, and an Humble 
 Monition to Parliament, People, 
 and Ministers. 
 
 London, Printed for Tho. Un- 
 derhill at the Blue Anchor in 
 Paul's Church-yard : and Francis 
 Tyton at the Three Daggers in 
 Fleet Street, 1653, sm. 4°. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface — 
 4 pp. and pp. 40 [Dated on last page 
 ' March 28, 1653.'] The title-page of 
 the 'Petition' Baxter 'defends' and 
 which he himself drew up, follows : — 
 'The Humble Petition of many thou- 
 sands, Gentlemen, Free-holders, and 
 
 others, of the • County of Worcester, To 
 the Parliament of the Common-wealth 
 of England. In behalf of the Able, 
 Faithful, Godly Ministry of this Nation. 
 Delivered by Colonel John Bridges and 
 Mr Thomas Foly, December 22, 1652. 
 With the Parliament's Answer thereunto. 
 London, Printed by Robert White, for 
 Francis Tyton, and Thomas Underhill, 
 and are to be sold at their shops, the 
 three Daggers in Fleet-street, and the 
 Bible and Anchor in Pauls Church-3'^ard, 
 1652, 4°. Title — and pp. 3-8 [subscribed 
 by above six thousand]. 
 
 %* In the Williams' Library copy of 
 preceding there is at page 3 in the holo- 
 graph of Baxter an addition ' omitted 
 in the printing' entitled 'Answer to 
 2d question' — See ' Reliquiae' [Lib. I. 
 p. 115] where Baxter avows having 
 drawn up the ' Petition ' and notices 
 the want of the addition found in Wil- 
 liams' copy as above : ' by an oversight 
 [it] is maimed by the want of the answer 
 to one of the accuser's queries.' Dar- 
 ling in his 'Cyclopaedia Bibliographica' 
 s.n. erroneously describes ^^f?/'^ as print- 
 ed in 'A Brief Discovery of the three- 
 fold state of Anti-Christ" whereas 
 Baxter is defending the ' Petition' from 
 the attack that appeared in this (Quaker ?) 
 publication. 
 
 VIII. Rich. Baxter's Apolog\^ 
 against the modest Exceptions of 
 Mr T. Blake and the Digression of 
 Mr G. Kendall. Whereunto is 
 added Animadversions on a late 
 Dissertation of Ludiomseus Col- 
 vinus alias Ludovicus MolinEeus 
 M. Dr Oxon. And an Admoni- 
 tion of Mr W. Eyre of Salisbury, 
 with Mr Crandon's Anatomy for 
 satisfaction of Mr Caryl. London, 
 Printed for T. Underhill and F. 
 Tyton, and are to be sold by Is. 
 Nevil at the Plough, and Jos. 
 Barbar at the Lamb in Paul's 
 Church-yard. 1654. [4°] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to General Edward Whalley pp. 
 6 — A separate title as follows : ' Rich. 
 Baxter's Account given to his reverend 
 brother Mr T. Blake of the Reasons of 
 his Dissent from the Doctrine of his Ex- 
 ceptions in his late Treatise of the Cove- 
 nants. London, Printed by A. M. for 
 Thomas Underhill at the Anchor and 
 Bible in Paul's Church-yard and Francis 
 Tyton at the three Daggers in Fleet- 
 street 1654 ' — the Preface Apologetical 
 
14 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 pp. 14 — the Contents pp. 4 — Treatise pp. 
 155 — Postscript p. 3. [Often amissing 
 from ' Finis ' being on page 155.] A 
 second separate title as follows : ' The 
 Reduction of a Digressor : or Rich. 
 Baxter's Reply to Mr George Kendall's 
 Digression in his Book against Mr Good- 
 win. London [as before, only added at 
 end after Fleet-street ' near Dunstans 
 Church'] 1654. — Quotations pp. 10 — the 
 Contents pp. 8 — * Treatise ' pp. 144. 'Post- 
 script ' pp. 2 — Errata and a note i page. 
 
 ArxOther separate title * Rich- 
 ard Baxter's Confvtation of a 
 Dissertation for the Justification 
 of Infidels : Written by Ludio- 
 mseus Colvinus alias Ludovicus 
 Molinaeus, Dr of Physick and 
 History, Professor in Oxford, 
 against his brother Cyrus Moli- 
 noeus. London, Printed by R. 
 W. Anno Dom. 1654. 
 
 ' Epistle Dedicatory ' to * my 
 dearly beloved and much honored 
 and valued friend Colonel Sylvanus 
 Taylor,' pp. 7 — two short 'notes' 
 I page — the Apologetical Preface 
 pp. 6 — the Contents pp. 4 — the 
 Fragment of an Epistle M^hich was 
 the cause of this Dissertation pp. 
 6 — Treatise ' of the Part of P'aith 
 in Justification' pp. 177-326 — 
 Another separate title as follows : 
 
 * Rich. Baxter's Admonition to Mr 
 William Eyre of Salisbury con- 
 cerning his Miscarriages in a book 
 lately written for the Justification 
 of Infidels against M. Benj. Wood- 
 bridge, M. James Cranford, and 
 the Author. London [as the last] — 
 the Preface pp. 10 — the Contents 
 pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 40 — Note to 
 Reader i page — Postcript i page 
 — Address to the ' Reader ' on 
 
 * Mr Crandon's book' — very 
 amusing. Another separate title 
 as follows : — 'An unsavoury 
 Volume of Mr Jo. Crandon's Ana- 
 tomized, or a Nosegay of the 
 choicest Flowers in that Garden 
 presented to Mr Joseph Caryl by 
 Rich. Baxter. London [as the 
 first separate title-page, sitprd\ 
 1(354 — To the Reader pp. 3 — the 
 
 Contents pp. 2 — To Caryl pp. 3 
 — Treatise pp. 84. 
 
 ^ %* My copy bears on the general 
 title-page the autograph of Jonathan 
 Edwardes' Coll. Jesu. Oxon : & Trin. 
 Coll. Dub.' — the famous namesake and 
 precursor of the greater Jonathan Ed- 
 wards of America. There are singular 
 coincidences of subject in the ' Writings * 
 of the two, and of others of the Edwards* 
 name on this side. See ' Reliquiae ' for 
 Baxter's personal notices of his differ- 
 ent opponents in this book. [Eib. I. p. 
 no.] Orme makes five different works 
 out of abo7<e. Doubtless some of them 
 were issued separately, but the general 
 title-page and continuous pagination, 
 shews Baxter intended them to form 
 one book. 
 
 IX. True Christianity or 
 Christ's absolute Dominion and 
 Mans necessary Self-resignation 
 and subjection. In two Assize 
 Sermons preached at Worcester. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed for Nevill Simmons, Book- 
 sellar [sic] in Kidderminster, and 
 are to be sold at London by Wil- 
 liam Roybould at the Unicorne in 
 Pauls Church-yard. 1655. [18°.] 
 There is a separate title-page to 
 each Sermon as follows : 
 
 {a) A Sermon of the absolute 
 Dominion of God-Redeemer, 
 and the necessity of being 
 devoted and living to him. 
 Preached before the honour- 
 able Judge of Assize at Wor- 
 cester, Aug. 2, 1654. [Rest 
 as in general title. ] 
 {b) A Sermon of the absolute 
 Soveraignty of Christ : and 
 the necessity of man's sub- 
 jection, dependance and 
 chiefest love to him. Preach- 
 ed before the Judges of As- 
 size at Worcester. [Rest as 
 in general title.] 
 Collation: General title-page — ist 
 .special title-page. — Epistle Dedicatory 
 to * Serjeant Glyn, now Judge of Assize ' 
 pp. 20. Errors i page, ist Sermon from 
 I Corinthians vi. 19, 20, pp. i-ii6. 2d 
 special title-page. To the Christian 
 reader 2 pp. 2d Sermon from Psalm ii. 
 10-12, pp 121-216. 
 %* The ' Reliqjiue^ says 'The first was 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 15 
 
 preached before Judge Atkins, Sir Tho- 
 mas Rous being high-sheriff : the second 
 before Serjeant Glyn, who desiring me 
 to print it I thought meet to print the 
 former with it.' [As before Pt. I. p. 110.] 
 My copy of this little volume has been 
 successively in the possession of the well- 
 known critics and editors Thomas Park 
 and the Rev. John Mitford. The for- 
 mer's autograph, dated 18 15, is on the 
 general title-page : that of the latter on 
 the front fly-leaf, dated Oct. 1840, and he 
 has written ' Two excellent and eloquent 
 sermons.' 
 
 X. Rich. Baxter's Confession of 
 his Faith, especially concerning 
 the interest of Repentance and 
 sincere Obedience to Christ in our 
 Justification and Salvation. Writ- 
 ten for the satisfaction of the mis- 
 informed, the conviction of Ca- 
 lumniators and the Explication and 
 Vindication of some weighty 
 Truths. London, Printed by R. 
 W. for Thos. Underhil and Fra. 
 Tyton, and are to be sold at the 
 Anchor and Bible in Paul's Church- 
 yard, and at the three Daggers in 
 Fleet-street, 1655. [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page. i page with 
 two quotations. The Preface pp. 47. 
 Contents pp. 3. Errata 1 page. Treatise 
 pp. 462. On page 462 is ' Finis' and here 
 usually copies end : but the complete 
 book has after this ' An Addition to the 
 nth chapter of the 3d Part of the Saint's 
 Rest' pp. 8 and Letters of the celebrated 
 Gataker pp. 19. Errata i page. 
 
 \* The last Letter is written by Charles 
 Gataker for his venerable and then dying 
 fother. See ''Religuice'' [Lib. L p. iii] for 
 a very severe and unhappily well-de- 
 served castigation of Dr John Owen, who 
 wrote most unrighteously against both 
 Baxter and John Goodwin. Baxter in 
 his ' Confession ' and in other of his 
 treatises stood side by side with John 
 Goodwin against the wild Antinonian- 
 ism of the period. 
 
 XI. Humble Advice or the 
 Heads of those things which were 
 offered to many honourable mem- 
 bers of Parliament by Mr Richard 
 Baxter at the end of his sermon, 
 December 24 at the Abby in 
 Westminster, with some Additions 
 as they were delivered by him to 
 a friend that desired them, who 
 
 thought meet to make them pub- 
 lick. London, Printed for Tho- 
 mas Underhill and Francis Tyton 
 1655. [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page and pp. 11. 
 
 %* The British Museum copy has a 
 contemporary date 'Jany 2d.' and the 
 letter 5 in 1655 is marked out and 4 
 written. Baxter in the ' Reliquise' [Lib. 
 L p. iii] describes this as ' one scrap of a 
 
 sermon taken by 
 
 some one and printed.' 
 
 XH. The Vnreasonableness of 
 Infidelity: manifested in Four Dis- 
 courses, the subject of which is 
 expressed in the next pages. Writ - 
 ten for the strengthening of the 
 weak, the establishing of the 
 tempted, the staying of the present 
 Course of Apostasie, and the Re- 
 covery of those that have not 
 sinned unto death. By Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Thomas Underbill, at the Bible 
 and Anchor in Paul's Church-yard 
 and for F. Tyton at the 3 daggers 
 in Fleet street. 1655. [i2°J. 
 
 The following are the 'subjects' 
 referred to in title-page : — 
 
 1. The Spirit's extrinsick wit- 
 ness to the Truth of Chris- 
 tianity on Gal. iii. 1-3. 
 With a determination of 
 this Question : Whether the 
 miraculous works of Christ 
 and his Disciples do oblige 
 those to Believe who never 
 saw them ? Aff. 
 
 2. The Spirit's Internal wit- 
 ness to the Truth of Chris- 
 tianity on I John v. 10. 
 
 3. For Prevention of the un- 
 pardonable sin against the 
 Holy Ghost : a Demonstra- 
 tion that the Spirit and 
 works of Christ were the 
 finger of God : or the holy 
 
 . war between Christ and 
 Satan ; on Matt. xii. 22 
 to 33. A Postscript against 
 Mr Lyford''s exceptions. 
 
Annotated List of the 
 
 4. The arrogancy of Reason 
 against Divine Revelations 
 repressed : or proud Ignor- 
 ance the cause of Infidelity 
 and of men's quarrelling 
 with the word of God, on 
 John iii. 9. 
 
 Collation: Title-page, Titles as supra 
 — a page of passages of Scripture. — Dedi- 
 cation to Lord Broghill pp. 15. An Ad- 
 vertisement pp. 22. The Preface pp. 43. 
 The Contents pp. 10. Errata i page. 
 ' The Spirit's Witness' pp. 1-124. Then 
 a separate title-page. 
 
 A Determination of this Ques- 
 tion, Whether, etc. [as above] 
 London, Printed [as in general 
 title-page] 1655. 
 
 To the Reader pp. 2. Treatise 
 pp. 1-195. Another separate title- 
 page:— 
 
 For Prevention [as before, down 
 to 'finger of God 'J London, Print- 
 ed Anno Dom. 1655. 
 
 Treatise pp. 283. Postscript pp. 
 284-310. Another separate title- 
 page:— 
 
 The Arrogancy [as before] Lon- 
 don : Printed by T. N. for Tho. 
 Underbill 1655. 
 
 A page of passages of Scripture. 
 Treatise pp. 5-77. 
 
 *** These several treatises are found 
 separately issued and without Baxter's 
 name on the title-page. In the British 
 Museum Library in the copy of 'The 
 Arrogancy of Reason' there is contem- 
 poraneously written on title ' Baxter' and 
 on 'For Prevention, etc., a reference is 
 given to page 82 as determining Baxter 
 to be the author, as follows ' Three or 
 four of these discourses I have spoak of 
 already in my second part of the Saint's 
 Rest.' See ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. L p. ii]for 
 notice of this very able and acute book. 
 Orme cannot have seen this work or 
 any of the combined treatises. 
 
 XIII. Gildas Salviantcs ; the 
 Reformed Pastor. Shewing the 
 nature of the Pastoral work ; espe- 
 cially in private instruction and 
 catechizing. With an open. Con- 
 fession of our too open sins. Pre- 
 pared for a day of Humiliation 
 kept at Worcester, December 4 
 
 1655 by the ministers of that 
 county who subscribed the agree- 
 ment for catechizing and personal 
 instruction, at their entrance upon 
 that work. By their unworthy 
 fellow - servant Richard Baxter, 
 Teacher of the Church at Keder- 
 minster. London, Printed by 
 Robert White for Nevil Simmons 
 Book-seller at Kederminster, and 
 are to be sold by William Roy- 
 bould at the Unicorn in Paul's 
 Church-yard. 1656 [i2°j. 
 
 Collatioft : Title-page — the Preface 
 to ' my reverend and dearly beloved 
 brethren, the faithful ministers of Christ 
 in Brittain and Ireland ' pp. 50. To the 
 Lay-Reader pp. 16 — quotations from 
 Hammond and Gurnal pp. 4 — the 
 Contents pp. 6. Errata i page. Trea- 
 tise [from Acts xx. 28] pp. 480. At end 
 of page 480 is ' Finis. December 25, 
 1655,' but there follow two Letters (i) 
 ' to the reverend and faithful ministers of 
 Christ in the several counties of this 
 Land, and the gentlemen and other 
 natives of each county now inhabiting 
 the city of London' pp. 7 (2) 'to all 
 the rest of the ministers of the Gospel in 
 this county ' pp. 5. 
 
 *i^ The second edition, which rapidly 
 followed the first, has an ' Appendix in 
 answer to some Objections which I have 
 heard of, since the . former edition ' 
 pp. 60. — [1657]. See 'Reliquiai' [Lib. 
 I. p. 115] for account of the origin and 
 usefulness of this book. 
 
 XIV. The Agreement of divers 
 Ministers of Christ in the County 
 of Worcester and some adjacent 
 parts for Catechizing or personal 
 instructing all in their several 
 Parishes that will consent there- 
 unto. Containing I. The Arti- 
 cles of Agreement. II. An Ex- 
 hortation to the People to submit 
 to this necessary work. III. The 
 Profession of Faith and Catechism 
 which we desire them first to 
 learn. The second edition. Lon- 
 don, Printed by R. W. for Nevil 
 Simmons, Bookseller at Kidder- 
 minster and are to be sold there 
 by him and at London by William 
 Raybould at the Unicorn in Paul's 
 church-yard. 1656 [i2°J. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 17 
 
 Collation : This small volume con- 
 taining Creed, Commandments and a 
 Catechism consists of 42 pages. The 
 former part of 11 pages is subscribed by 
 58 ministers, of whom Richard Baxter 
 stands first. 
 
 *:ic* See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 115] — 
 ; The Catechism we here learn was an 
 enlargement of a 'Confession' which 
 had been before printed as * an open 
 sheet ' when * Church-discipline ' was 
 'set up.' 
 
 XV. Certain Disputations of 
 Right to Sacraments and the true 
 nature of Visible Christianity : de- 
 fending them against several sorts 
 of opponents, especially against 
 the second assault of that pious, 
 reverend and dear brother Mr 
 Thomas Blake. By Richard Bax- 
 ter, Teacher of the Church in 
 Kederminster. London, Printed 
 by William Du-Gard for Thomas 
 Johnson at the Golden Key in St 
 Paul's Church-yard. 1657 [srru 
 4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — On reverse the 
 subjects of the several 'Disputations' 
 — ' To the faithfuU servants of Christ, 
 the associated ministers of Worcestershire 
 pp. 2 — the Preface pp. 32 — quotations 
 pp. 3 — the Contents pp. 7 — Treatise pp. 
 523 — On reverse a quotation from Au- 
 gustine — Two Postscripts pp. 527-541 — 
 Errata pp. 2. 
 
 *** Cf. 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. pp. 113- 
 114. 
 
 XVI. The Quakers Catechism 
 or the Quakers questioned ; their 
 Questions answered, and both 
 Published, for the sake of them 
 that have not yet sinned unto 
 death ; and of those ungrounded 
 novices that are most in danger 
 of their Seduction. By Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by A. M. for 
 Thomas Underbill at the Anchor 
 and Bible in Paul's Church-yard 
 and Francis Tyton at the Three 
 Daggers in Fleetstreet. 1657. [4°]. 
 
 Collatio7t : Title-page, and texts on 
 reverse — To the Reader pp. 3 — To the 
 Separatists and Anabaptists in England 
 pp. 6 — ' An Answer to a young unsettled 
 
 Friend' pp. 11 — The Information of 
 George Coolishey, etc. pp. 4 [all un- 
 paged] — Answer pp. 32. 
 
 *:,,* See ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 116] for 
 an incisive 'rebuke' of the Quakers in 
 connection with this ' Catechism.' 
 
 XVIL The Safe Religion or 
 Three Disputations for the Re- 
 formed Catholike Religion against 
 Popery. Proving that Popery is 
 against the Holy Scriptures, the 
 Unity of the Catholike Church, 
 the consent of the Antient Doctors, 
 the plainest Reason and common 
 judgement of sense itself. By 
 Richard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by Abraham 
 Miller, for Thomas Underbill at 
 the Anchor and Bible in Paul's 
 Church-yard and Francis Tyton 
 at the three Daggers in Fleet - 
 street. 1657 [thick 12°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Pro- 
 testant Reader pp. 10 — To the Literate 
 Romanists that will read this Book pp. 
 37 — the Contents pp. 4 — Errata i page — 
 Treatise pp. 455 — Table pp. 13 [the last 
 often awanting]. 
 
 %* See 'Reliquiae.' [Lib. I. pp. 116]. 
 
 XVIII. A Treatise of Conver- 
 sion. Preached and now pub- 
 lished for the use of those that are 
 strangers to a true Conversion, 
 especially the grossly ignorant and 
 ungodly. By Richard Baxter, 
 Teacher of the Church of Christ 
 at Kederminster. London, Printed 
 by R. W. for Nevil Simmons, 
 Bookseller in Kiderminster, and 
 are to be sold by Joseph Nevil at 
 the Plough in PauPs Church-yard. 
 1657 [sm. 4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to the inhabitants of Kider- 
 minster pp. 10 — To the Reader pp. 6 — 
 the Contents, pp. 6 — Errata i page — 
 Treatise [on Matthew xviii. 37] pp. 307. 
 
 *^* See ' Reliquiae.' [Lib. L pp. 
 1 1 4]. ' I published a treatise of Conver- 
 sion, being some plain Sermons on that 
 subject, which Mr Baldwin — an honest 
 young minister that had lived in my 
 house and learned my proper characters 
 or short-hand in which I wrote my ser- 
 mon-notes — had transcribed out of my 
 notes,' etc. etc. 
 
Amwtated List of the 
 
 XIX. A Winding-sheet for 
 I^opery. By Richard Baxter, 
 CATHOLICK. 
 
 London, Printed by Robert 
 White, for Nevil Simmons, Book- 
 seller in Kederminster, Anno 
 Dom. 1657. [12°]. 
 
 Collatio7i : Title-page — and pp. 13. 
 
 %* See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 116]. 
 
 XX. One Sheet for the Mi- 
 nistry against the Malignants of 
 all sorts. By Richard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by Robert 
 White, for Nevil Simmons, Book- 
 seller in Kederminster, Anno 
 Dom. 1657. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — and pp. 14. 
 %* See ' Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 117]. 
 
 XXL One Sheet against the 
 Quakers. By Richard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by Robert 
 White for Nevil Simmons, Book- 
 seller in Kederminster, Anno 
 Dom. 1657. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Treatise pp. 
 13. 
 *i„* See ' Reliqui^' [Lib. I. p. 116]. 
 
 XXIL A Second Sheet for the 
 Ministry justifying our Calling 
 against Quakers, Seekers and 
 Papists, and all that deny us to be 
 the Ministers of Christ. By 
 Richard Baxter. London, Printed 
 by R. White for Nevil Simmons, 
 Bookseller in Kidderminster. 
 1657. [sm. 4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — and pp. 16. 
 %* See ' Reliquice ' [Lib. I. p. 117]. 
 
 XXIIL Directions to Justices 
 of Peace, especially in Corpora- 
 tions, for the discharge of their 
 duty to God : written at the request 
 of a Magistrate, and published 
 for the US8 of others yt need it. By 
 Richard Baxter, impelled by the 
 love of God and men to become 
 tlieir submissive Monitor. London, 
 l*rinted by Robert White for 
 Nevil Simmons. 1657. [12°]. 
 
 %* Collation: Half-title — and pp. 7. 
 My copy is a contemporary MS. dated 
 
 ' Octob. 20. 1657 ' — and looks like the 
 holograph of Baxter. I purchased it in 
 Worcester along with a number of 
 Baxters rarest tractates. In the * Reli- 
 quiae' [Lib. L p. 117] he says ' I printed 
 it in an open sheet to stick upon a wall.' 
 
 XXIV. A Call to the Uncon- 
 verted to Turn and Live and 
 Accept of Mercy while Mercy 
 may be had, as ever they would 
 find mercy in the day of their 
 extremity : From the Living God. 
 By his unworthy servant Richard 
 Baxter, to be read in families 
 where any are unconverted. The 
 eleventh edition. London, Printed 
 by R. W. for N. Simmons, Book- 
 seller at Kederminster and are to 
 be sold by Henry Mortlock at the 
 sign of the Phoenix in St Paul's 
 Church-yard, 1665. At is. bound 
 [18°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. The Reason 
 of this work pp. 4. The Preface pp. 32. 
 Contents pp. 4. Books by Baxter pp. 4 
 [all unpaged]. Treatise pp. 239. [Text 
 Ezekiel xxxiii. 11]. 
 
 %* Among many editions I have se- 
 lected that of the year of the plague 
 ' 1665.' We can well understand the 
 wistfulness with which then he would 
 re-issue it. The 13th edition ' 1669' has 
 the 'addition of some passages.' The 
 first edition was published in 1657. It at 
 once seized the popular heart and has 
 never lost its hold. It is perhaps the 
 most vital of all Baxter's books. See 
 his ' Reliquiae' [Lib. L pp. 114-115], for 
 his own wondering and grateful account 
 of its ' unexpected success.' ' I had 
 rather,' said Dr Isaac Watts, ' be the 
 author of Mr Baxter's " Call to the 
 Unconverted " than the author of Milton's 
 Paradise Lost.' In common with other 
 of Baxter's writings it imparts its own 
 unearthly fervour — as Henry Rogers has 
 noted — to the many great minds wljo 
 have written of it. Cf. Rogers' splendid 
 
 * Essay ' prefixed to the modern reprint 
 of Baxter's * Practical Works' [4 vols. 
 impl. 8vo. 1838], and Dr Chalmers' 
 
 * Introduction to the ' Call ' and ' Now or 
 Never' in Collins' series. It was soon 
 translated into nearly every language of 
 Europe. I was shewn at Harvard 
 University Library, Cambridge U. S. 
 a copy of a versicm by holy John Eliot 
 the Apostle of the Indians into their 
 strange tongue ; .which with the Bible 
 is the one pathetic monument of a 
 nation and language long since extinct. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 19 
 
 Cotton Mather in his Life of Eliot 
 tells very tenderly of one of the Indian 
 chiefs dying with the ' Call ' as his one 
 light as he travelled towards the setting 
 Sun. 
 
 XXV. Richard Baxter's Ac- 
 count of his present Thoughts 
 concerning the Controversies about 
 the Perseverance of the Saints. 
 Occasioned by the gross misreports 
 of some passages in his book, 
 called The Right Method for 
 Peace of Conscience, etc. ; which 
 are left out in the last impression 
 to avoid offence, and this here 
 substituted, for the fuller explica- 
 tion of the same points. London, 
 Printed for Tho. Underbill at the 
 Anchor and Bible in Paul's 
 Church-yard and F. Tyton at the 
 Three Daggers in Fleet -street. 
 1657 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page. — Treatise pp. 
 42. 
 
 *** On the title-page of my copy is the 
 autograph of the good 'John Billings- 
 ley' 1687. See 'Reliquiffi' [Lib. I. p. 
 110] for autobiographic references in 
 connection with this tractate, 
 
 XXVI. Making Light of Christ 
 and Salvation too oft the issue of 
 Gospel - Invitations. Manifested 
 in a sermon preached at Laurence 
 lury in London. By Rich. Bax- 
 ter, Teacher of the Church of 
 Christ at Kederminster, in Wor- 
 cestershire. London, Printed by 
 R. White for Nevil Simmons 
 Bookseller in Kederminster, 1658 
 12° [Text Matthew xxii. 5]. 
 Title-page. To the Reader pp. 4. 
 Treatise pp. 181-243. 
 
 \* In the * Reliquiae ' there is a singu- 
 larly interesting account of the original 
 * preaching ' of this Sermon : and as it 
 evidences his popularity and power it 
 follows ' This Sermon was preached at 
 Laurence lury, where Mr Vines was 
 pastor: where though I sent the day 
 before to secure room for the Lord Brog- 
 hill and the Earl of Suffolk, with whom 
 I was to go in the coach : yet when I 
 came the crowd had so little respect of 
 persons that they were fain to go home 
 again because they could not come within 
 
 hearing : and the old Earl of Warwick 
 who stood in the abbey) brought me 
 home again. And Mr Vines himself was 
 fain to get up into the pulpit and sit 
 behind me and 1 to stand between his 
 legs : which I mention that the reader 
 may understand that verse in my poem 
 concerning him which is printed, where 
 I say 
 
 * At once the pulpit held us both ' 
 [Lib. L s. 112.] 
 
 XXVII. A Sermon of Judge- 
 ment. Preached at Pauls before 
 the Honourable Lord Maior and 
 Aldermen of the City of London, 
 Decemb. 17, 1654. And now 
 enlarged. By Rich. Baxter. Lon- 
 don, Printed by R. W. for Nevil 
 Simmons, Bookseller in Keder- 
 minster, 1658. 12°. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Dedication 'To 
 the Right Honourable Christopher Pack, 
 Lord Maior of London, with the right 
 worshipful Aldermen ' pp. 1 1 — To the 
 ignorant or careless reader pp. 3 — Trea- 
 tise pp. 174 [Text 2 Corinthians v. 10, 
 II]. 
 
 *.)(.* My copy has on the front fly-leaf 
 the autograph of the excellent 'John Raw- 
 let' — [Nos. xxvi. and xxvii. make one 
 volume, with continuous pagination]. I 
 have another edition of this little book 
 by itself '1672.' 'Another of these 
 Sermons [as preached in London] which 
 I published was * a Sermon of Judgment, 
 which I enlarged into a small treati.se. 
 This was preached at Paul's [St Paul's] 
 at the desire of Sir Christopher Pack, 
 then Lord Mayor, lo tJie gj^eatest attdi- 
 to7'y that I ez'er saw.^ ' Reliquije ' [Lib. 
 L p. 112]. 
 
 XXVIII. The Crucifying of the 
 World by the Cross of Christ. 
 With a Preface to the Nobles, 
 gentlemen and all the rich, direct- 
 ing them how they may be richer. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed by R. W. for Nevill Sim- 
 mons, Bookseller in Kederminster, 
 and are to be sold by him there ; 
 and by Nathaniel Ekins at the 
 Gun in Paul's Church-yard. Anno 
 Dom. 1658 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory ' to my worthy friend, Thomas 
 Foley, Esq.' pp. 6 — the Preface pp. 50 
 — quotations from Baronius, etc., pp. 6 — 
 
Annotated List of the 
 
 the Contents pp. 6 — books of same au- 
 thor pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 254 — [The 
 ' Text ' on which it is based is Gala- 
 tians vi. 14.] 
 
 %* See 'Reliquise' [Lib. I. p. 116.] 
 It has been recently admirably re-printed 
 imder the careful editorship of Mr 
 Baillie the biographer of Hewitson. 
 
 XXIX. Of Saving Faith : that 
 it is not only gradually but specifi- 
 cally distinct from all common 
 faith. The Agreement of Richard 
 Baxter with that very learned 
 consenting adversary that hath 
 maintained my assertion by a pre- 
 tended confutation in the end of 
 wSergeant wShephard's book of Sin- 
 cerity and Hypocrisie. With ten 
 Reasons of my Dissent in some 
 passages that came in on the by. 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevill Simmons Bookseller in Ke- 
 derminster, and are to be sold by 
 him there ; and by Nathaniel 
 Ekins at the Gun in Paul's Church- 
 yard. Anno Dom. 1658 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle to Ser- 
 geant S. pp. 2 — Contents pp. 3 — errata 
 on reverse of p. 3 — Treatise pp. 96. 
 
 *;,£* * Finis ' is placed on page 89 and 
 on page 90 this Note : * Reader, Be- 
 cause many that have bought the former 
 editions of my book called the Sainfs 
 Rest, do grudge that I have annexed a 
 sheet to the 7th impression on this sub- 
 ject which was not in the former, that 
 they may have it here without buying 
 that book again, I shall here also annex 
 it.' It fills pp. 90-96. — In the ' Reli- 
 quiae ' [Lib. I. p. 117] Baxter refers to 
 Bi.shop Barlow's part in Sergeant Shep- 
 hard's book : and complains bitterly of 
 the Printer for having done his work so 
 ' shamefully that it is scarcely to be im- 
 derstood.' 
 
 XXX. Confirmation and Res- 
 tauration, the necessary means of 
 Reformation and Reconciliation : 
 for the Healing of the Corruptions 
 and Divisions of the Churches : 
 Submissively, but earnestly ten- 
 dered to the consideration of the 
 Soveraigne Powers, Magistrates, 
 Ministers and People, that they 
 may awake and be up and doing 
 
 in the execution of so much as 
 appeareth to be necessary, as they 
 are true to Christ, His Church 
 and Gospel, and to their own and 
 other souls, and to the peace and 
 wellfare of the Nations ; and as 
 they will answer the neglect to 
 Christ at their peril. 
 
 By Richard Baxter, an unworthy 
 Minister of Christ, that longeth to 
 see the healing of the Churches. 
 
 London, Printed by A. M. for 
 Nevill Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by Joseph Cranford, at the Kings- 
 Head in Pauls Church-yard. 
 1658. [12°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 9 — The Contents pp. 18 — Treatise 
 316 — Postscript [unpaged] p. 64 — Errata 
 I page. 
 
 *** This book was highly commended 
 by Dr Patrick, late Bishop of Ely, in 
 his Aqua Genitalis p. 471. Calamy 
 Account Vol. I. p. 413. All Patrick's 
 references to Baxter are respectful and 
 kindly. See the recent collective edition 
 of his Works by Taylor, sub noinine. 
 Cf. also 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 117]. 
 
 XXXI. The Judgment and Ad- 
 vice of the Assembly of the Associ- 
 ated Ministers of Worcester-shire, 
 held at Worcester Aug. 6th 1658. 
 Concerning the endeavours of Ec- 
 clesiastical Peace and the waies 
 and means of Christian vmity, which 
 Mr John Durey doth present ; 
 sent unto him in the name, and 
 by the appointment of the afore- 
 said Assembly. By Richard Bax- 
 ter Pastor of the Church at Ked- 
 erminster. London, Printed for 
 T. Underbill at the three Daggers 
 in Fleet-street, 1658 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — and pp. 2-8. 
 Inscription * To my reverend and much 
 honoured brother Mr John Durey'. . . 
 See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. pp. 117] where 
 Baxter states that besides above, he 
 ' drew up in Latin more largely ' a 
 'judgment' how best to expedite ' Paci- 
 fication,' 
 
 XXXH. Of Justification : Four 
 Disputations clearing and amica- 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 bly defending the Truth against 
 the unnecessary oppositions of 
 divers learned and reverend bre- 
 thren. By Richard Baxter, a ser- 
 vant of Christ for Truth and Peace. 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster and are to be sold 
 by him there ; and by Nathanal 
 Ekins at the Gun in Pauls Church- 
 yard, 1658 [4°] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 12 — the Contents pp. 6 — Errata i 
 page — Treatise pp. 423. 
 
 %* See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 14] for 
 account of this — He there says * If the 
 Reader would have the sum of my judg- 
 ment about justification in brief, he may 
 find it very plainly in a sermon on that 
 subject among the ' Morning Exercises 
 at St Giles in the Fields, preached by my 
 worthy friend Mr Gibbons of Black- 
 Fryers — in whose church I ended my 
 public ministry,' etc. etc. 
 
 XXXIII. Directions and Per- 
 swasions to a Sound Conversion : 
 For Prevention of that Deceit and 
 Damnation of Souls, and of those 
 Scandals, Heresies and desperate 
 Apostasies, that are the conse- 
 quents of a Counterfeit or Super- 
 ficial Change. By Richard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by A. M. for 
 Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by him there, and by N. Ekins, 
 at the Gun in Paul's Church-yard, 
 1658 [I2°J. 
 
 Collatio7t : Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 8 — The Contents pp. 4 — Errata — 
 Treatise pp. 534 — ' Which book hath been 
 marvellously useful to many, and, by 
 . preventing those mistakes in practical 
 religion which are often fatal,' Calamy : 
 Account, Vol. I. p. 413. See also ' Re- 
 liquiae' [Lib. I. p. 115]. 
 
 XXXIV. The Grotian Religion 
 Discovered, at the Invitation of Mr 
 Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. 
 "With a Preface, vindicating the 
 Synod of Dort from the calumnies 
 of the New Tilenus ; and David, 
 Peter, etc. And the Puritanes 
 and Sequestrations, etc., from the 
 
 censures of Mr Pierce. By Rich- 
 ard Baxter, Catholick. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevill Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by him there, and by Tho. Brew- 
 ster, at the three Bibles, and by 
 John Starkey at the Miter at the 
 West end of Paul's, 1658 [18°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Errata — The 
 Preface pp. 51 — Books by Baxter pp. 2 
 — Treatise pp. 119. 
 
 *** At commencement of this Trea- 
 tise Baxter has printed * April 9, 1658, 
 Incept,^ and at close ' Finitur, April 14, 
 1658,' an example of his extraordinary 
 rapidity of composition, * Written 
 against Dr Pierce containing a vindica- 
 tion of the doctrine of the Synod of 
 Dort and the old Puritans,' Calamy, 
 ' Account,' Vol. I. p. 413. Cf. Baxter's 
 own full and passionate account : Re- 
 liquiae, Baxt. [Lib. L p. 113.] He says 
 ' It was only the matter of fact which I 
 undertook, viz., to prove that Grotius 
 profest himself a moderate Papist : but 
 for his fault in so doing I little meddled 
 with it.' 
 
 XXXV. Five Disputations of 
 Church-Government and Worship. 
 I. Whether it be necessary or 
 profitable to the right order or 
 peace of the Churches of England, 
 that we restore the extruded Epis- 
 copacy? Neg. II. Assert. Those 
 who nullifie our present ministry 
 and Churches which have not the 
 prelatical ordination, and teach the 
 people to do the like, do incur the 
 guilt of grievous sin. III. An 
 Episcopacy desirable for the Refor- 
 mation, Preservation and Peace of 
 the Churches. IV. Whether a 
 stinted Liturgie or Form of Wor- 
 ship be a desirable means for the 
 peace of these Churches? V. 
 Whether human ceremonies be 
 necessary or profitabfe to the 
 Church? By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by him there and by Thomas 
 Johnson at the Golden Key in St 
 
Annotated List of the 
 
 Paul's Church -yard, 1659. At 
 4s. 6d. bound [sm. 4°]. 
 
 Collatio7t : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory ' To his Highness Richard, Lord 
 Protector' pp. 8 — a Preface pp. 38 — the 
 Contents pp. 8 — Errata i page — an Ad- 
 vertisement to prevent misunderstanding 
 pp. 24 — Treatise pp. 492 — On page 491 is 
 added ' Finitur. July 9, 1658,' and then 
 ' Satisfaction to certain Calumniators ' — 
 This refers to a charge that he was mak- 
 ing ' three or four hundred a-year ' by 
 his books — with curious details as to the 
 prices of books and publishing arrange- 
 ments. Ba.xter with great vigour rebukes 
 his ' slanderers' pp. 491-492. 
 
 The following are the separate 
 title-pages of each part : — 
 
 I. Only a heading as follows, 
 ' Whether it be necessary or profit- 
 able to the right order or the peace 
 of the Churches of England that 
 we restore the extruded Episco- 
 pacy ?' 
 
 II. The Second Disputation vin- 
 dicating the Protestant Churches 
 and ministers that have not pre- 
 latical ordination, from the re- 
 proaches of those dividers that 
 would nullify them. Written upon 
 the sad complaints of many godly 
 ministers in several parts of the 
 nation, whose hearers are turning 
 Separatists. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed by Robert White 
 for Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster. 1658. 
 
 III. The Third Disputation for 
 such sorts of Episcopacy or Dis- 
 parity in exercise of the ministry, 
 as is desirable or conducible to the 
 peace and reformation of the 
 Churche-s. [As before]. 
 
 IV. The Fourth Disputation of 
 a Form of Liturgy : how far it is 
 necessary, desirable or M^arrant- 
 able : in order to a Peace between 
 the Parties that differ herein, and 
 too uncharitably prosecute their 
 difference. [As before]. 
 
 V. The Fifth Disputation of 
 humane ceremonies whether they 
 are necessary or profitable to the 
 
 imposed or observed ? By Richard 
 Baxter. London [as before]. 
 
 *** *A book pleading for moderation 
 at the time when bishops, liturgy and 
 ceremonies were most decried and op- 
 posed.' Calaniy 'Account' Vol. I. p. 
 413. See Baxter's own fuller statement 
 in ' Reliquiae' [Lib. L pp. 117, 118]. 
 
 XXXVI. A Key for Cathohcks 
 to open the Jugling of the Jesuits 
 and satisfie all that are but truly 
 willing to understand, whether the 
 cause of the Roman or Reformed 
 Churches be of God ; and to leave 
 the reader utterly unexcusable that 
 after this will be a Papist. The 
 first Part, containing some Argu- 
 ments by which the meanest may 
 see the vanity of Popery ; and 40 
 Detections of their Fraud ; with 
 Directions and Materials sufficient 
 for the Confutation of their volumi- 
 nous deceits : particularly repelling 
 Boverius, Richlieu, H. T. 's Manual, 
 some Manuscripts, etc. With some 
 Proposals for a (hopeless) Peace. 
 The second Part sheweth (especi- 
 ally against the French and Gro- 
 tians) that the Catholick Churcli 
 is not united in any meerly hu- 
 mane head, either Pope or Coun- 
 cil. By Richard Baxter, a Catho- 
 lick Christian and Pastor of a 
 Church of such at Kederminster. 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by him there, and by Thomas 
 Johnson at the Golden Key in St 
 Paul's Church-yard. 1659. At 
 4s. bound [sm. 4"]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 18 — the Contents pp. 19-26 — Errata 
 I page — Treatise pp. 459 — On pp. 459-60 
 the ' Satisfaction to certain Calumnia- 
 tors' referred to under No. XXXV. 
 
 *^* At the close of ' the Preface ' he 
 thanks, of all men, the * Earl of Lauder- 
 dale ' for having ' translated ' his PVench 
 ' quotations ' for him ! In 1674 Baxter 
 published a 2d edition of the 'Key' 
 which is described as 'much corrected 
 and augmented.' See ' Reliquiae' [Lib. 
 I. p. 118J for a powerful statement of the 
 
 Church, and how far they may be I circumstances under which the ' Key 
 
IVrit'uigs of Richard Baxter. 
 
 23 
 
 was written, even 'at the hazard of his 
 life.' — Cf. also ' Reliquiae ' p. 180. It 
 lias been well edited and republished by 
 Allport. 
 
 XXXVII. A Holy Common- 
 wealth or Political Aphorisms 
 opening the true Principles of 
 Government : for the healing of the 
 mistakes and resolving the doubts 
 that most endanger and trouble 
 England at this time (if yet there 
 may be hope). And directing the 
 Desires of sober Christians that 
 long to see the Kingdoms of this 
 world become the Kingdoms of 
 the Lord and of his Christ. 
 Written by Richard Baxter at the 
 invitation of James Harrington, 
 Esquire. With a Preface to them 
 that have caused our eclipses since 
 1646, and a sounder Answer to 
 the Healing Question, and the Je- 
 suits Method for restoring Popery. 
 London, Printed for Thomas Un- 
 derbill and Francis Tyton, and 
 are to be sold at the sign of the 
 Anchor and Bible in Paul's 
 Church-yard and at the Three 
 Daggers in Fleet-street. 1659. 
 [Cr. 8vo.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 28 — an addition pp. 44 — Adam Cout- 
 zen the Jesuites Directions for preserv- 
 ing and restoring Popery, and changing 
 Religion in a Nation before the people 
 are awake pp. 13 — the Contents pp. 6 — 
 Treatise pp. 517 — catalogue of the Pub- 
 lishers' books pp. 9 — On reverse of last 
 page, 'To the Binder' and this note, 
 ' The price of this book is 3s. bound.' 
 
 *^* See the 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. pp. 
 118, T19] for a full account of this very 
 remarkable book — also onward [Part 
 III. pp. 71, 72J where he assigns his 
 reasons for recalling it_and asking it to 
 be regarded as nou scripttun. 
 
 XXXVHL A Treatise of S elf- 
 Denial. By Richard Baxter, Pas- 
 tor of the Church at Kedermifister. 
 
 London, Printed by Robert 
 White, for Nevil Simmons at the 
 Princes Arms in Saint Pauls 
 Church-yard. 1675 [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. A Premonition 
 
 concerning this Second Edition, pp. 4. 
 Epistle Dedicatory to Colonel James 
 Berry, etc. pp. 38 [entitled ' The Epistle 
 Monitory']. The Preface, pp. 39. The 
 Contents, pp. II [all unpaged]. Treatise 
 pp. 417. A Dialogue of Self-Denial (in 
 verse) pp. 13 [unpaged]. Text [Luke ix. 
 23,24.1 
 
 *^* The Dialogue is often awanting. 
 The following is the title, etc. of the 
 original edition : — 
 
 A Treatise of Self-Denyall. By 
 Richard Baxter, Pastor of the 
 Church at Kederminster. Lon- 
 don, Printed by Robert White, for 
 Nevil vSimmons, Bookseller in 
 Kederminster, and are to be sold 
 by him there, and by William Gil- 
 bertson at the Bible in Gilt Spur- 
 street without Newgate, and by 
 Joseph Nevil at the Plow in Pauls 
 Church -yard, 1660. At 3s. 3d. 
 bound, [sm. 4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page. Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to Berry [as above] pp. 30. The 
 Preface, pp. 30. The Contents, pp. 5 
 and on reverse of page 5 ' Errata.' Trea- 
 tise [from Luke ix. 23, 24] pp. 329. A 
 ' Dialogue ' pp. 8. As noted above from 
 * Finis ' being placed on page 329 this 
 ' Dialogue ' which is added, unpaged, is 
 often amissing. 
 
 *4(-*See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 117]. 
 
 XXXIX. Catholick Unity : or 
 the only way to bring us all to be 
 of one Religion. By Rich. Bax- 
 ter. To be read by such as are 
 offended at the differences in Reli- 
 gion and are willing to do their 
 part to heal them. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Thomas Underbill and Francis 
 Tyton, and are to be sold at the 
 sign of the Anchor and Bible in 
 Paul's Church-yard, and at the 
 three Daggers in Fleet Street. 
 1660. [i8°j. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. Dedication 
 'To all those in the several! Pari.shes of 
 these Nations that complain of the di.s- 
 agreements in matters of Religion' pp. 
 29. The Contents, pp. 4. Treatise, pp. 
 379. On last page this note ' Preached 
 Dec. 24th 1657. 
 
 *^.* 'Another Sermon which I preached 
 at Martin's Church, I printed with en- 
 largement called Catholick Unity.' ' Re- 
 liquiae' [Lib. I. p. 112]. Text, Ephesians 
 iv. 3. 
 
24 
 
 AfmOfated List of the 
 
 XL Universal Concord. The 
 first Part. The sufficient Terms 
 proposed for the use of those who 
 have the Uberty to use them : and 
 as the Author's Profession of his 
 own Religion in a contentious, 
 dividing age. By Richard Baxter. 
 The First and General Part is pre- 
 paratory to the Second Part, con- 
 taining the Particular Terms of 
 Reconciling the severall differing 
 Parties that are Reconcileable. 
 London, Printed by R.W. for Nevil 
 Simmons, Bookseller in Keder- 
 minster. 1660. [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — to the Reader 
 pp. 10. Treatise, pp. 80. 
 
 *^* The only copy of this that I have 
 anywhere traced is in the Bodleian, ac- 
 quired since the printed Catalogue was 
 prepared. From the ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. 
 pp. 119, 120], we learn that above was 
 all that was published. 'When I wrote I 
 thought to have published a second part 
 
 but the change of the times 
 
 hath necessarily changed that purpose.' 
 Calamy assigns it to 1658: so that he can't 
 have seen it ; nor Orme who copies 1658. 
 It is difficult to account for its extreme 
 scarcity. Others preceding the Fire of 
 London are frequently to be found. 
 
 XLL The True Catholick and 
 Catholick Church described and 
 the vanity of the Papists and all 
 other Schismaticks that confine 
 the Catholick Church to their 
 sect discovered and shamed. By 
 Richard Baxter, a memi)er of 
 that one Universal Church which 
 containeth all the true Christians 
 in the world. With an applogeti- 
 cal Postscript against the factions 
 principles and writings -^f 'Mr T. 
 Malpas, Mr T. Pierce, Philo-Tile- 
 nus and such others. — London, 
 Printed by A. M. for T. Under- 
 bill at the Anchor and Bible in 
 Pauls Church yard, and F. Tyton 
 at the three Daggers in Fleet- 
 street. 1660 [i8°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 6 — Contents pp. 4 — Treatise [from 
 I Corinthians xii. 12J pp. 275 — Postscript 
 
 pp. 277-331 — Errata on reverse of page 
 331- 
 
 ** See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 112] 
 for a stirring account of the design of 
 this book and a pungent notice of ' Mal- 
 pas '—Orme misdates this 1659. 
 
 XLII. A Sermon of Repent- 
 ance, preached before the Honour- 
 able House of Commons assembled 
 in Parliament at Westminster at 
 their late solemn Fast for the set- 
 tling of these Nations, April 30, 
 1660. By Richard Baxter. Lon- 
 don, Printed by R. W. and A. M. 
 for Francis Tyton and Jane Un- 
 derbill, and are to be sold at the 
 sign of the three Daggers in Fleet - 
 street and at the Bible and Anchor 
 in Pauls Church-yard. 1660 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To House of 
 Commons pp. 4 — Sermon [Text xxxvi. 
 31] PP- 47- 
 
 *^* 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 120]. 
 
 XLIIL. Right Rejoycing : or 
 the Nature and Order of rational 
 and warrantable joy. Discovered 
 in a Sermon preached at St Pauls 
 before the Lord Maior [sic] and 
 aldermen, and the several com- 
 panies of the city of London on 
 May 10, 1660, appointed by both 
 Houses of Parliament to be a day 
 of solemn Thanksgiving for God's 
 raising up and succeeding his Ex- 
 cellency and other instruments, in 
 order to his Majestie's restoration 
 and the settlement of these Na- 
 tions. By Richard Baxter. Lon- 
 don, Printed by R. W. and A. M. 
 for Francis Tyton and Jane Un- 
 derbill, and are to be sold at the 
 sign of the three Daggers in Fleet - 
 street and at the Bible and Anchor 
 in Paul's Church-yard. 1660 [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Fly-leaf 'request of the 
 court for the sermon' — Title-page — 
 Epistle Dedicatory to Lord Mayor,' etc. 
 pp. 4 — Sermon [Luke x. 20] pp. 51. 
 
 *^* 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 120]. 
 
 XLI V. The Life of Faith, as it 
 is the Evidence of things unseen. 
 A Sermon preached [contractedly] 
 
Writings of Richard Baxte7\ 
 
 25 
 
 before the King at White-Hall 
 upon July the 22th [sic] 1660. By 
 Richard Baxter, one of his Majes- 
 ties Chaplains in Ordinary. Pub- 
 lished by his Majestie's special 
 Command. With enlargement, and 
 relaxation of the style for common 
 use. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. and 
 A. M. for Francis Tyton and Jane 
 Underbill, and are to be sold at 
 the three Daggers in Fleet -street 
 and at the Bible and Anchor in 
 Pauls Church-yard ; and by Nevil 
 Simmons at Kederminster. 1660. 
 [4°]- 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Address to 
 ' Readers ' i page — Sermon pp. 68 [Text, 
 Hebrews xi. i.] 
 
 *^* This was subsequently very much 
 enlarged and re-published as virtually a 
 new book — See No. LIX. : 'Reliquiae' 
 [Lib. I. p. 120]. 
 
 XLV. The Successive Visibility 
 of the Church of Which the Pro- 
 testants are the soundest Members. 
 
 1. Defended against the Oppo- 
 sition of Mr William Johnson. 
 II. Proved by many Arguments. 
 By Richard Baxter. Whereto is 
 added i. An Account of my 
 judgement to Mr J. how far Here- 
 ticks are or are not in the Church. 
 
 2. Mr J. 's Explication of the most 
 used terms ; with my Queries 
 thereupon and his Answers, and 
 my Reply. 3. An Appendix about 
 successive Ordination. 4. Letters 
 between me and T. S. a Papist, 
 with a Narrative of the Success. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Ke- 
 derminster, and are to be sold by 
 Francis Tyton at the three Dag- 
 gers in Fleet-street. 1660 [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Preface 
 and Postscript pp. 1-28 — The Contents 
 pp. 6 — Errata — Treatise pp. 392. 
 
 *** This Treatise has the following 
 separate title-pages : — 
 
 At page 194 'The Second 
 Part : Wherein the succes- 
 
 sive Visibility of the Church, 
 of which the Protestants 
 are chief Members, is clearly 
 proved : And the Papists 
 exception against it con- 
 futed. London, Printed in 
 the year 1660. 
 
 At page 308 ' Mr Johnson's 
 Explication of Some of the 
 most used Terms, with 
 Queries thereupon : and his 
 Answer and my Reply. 
 London, Printed 1660. 
 
 At page 362 ' A Letter Writ- 
 ten to Thomas Smith a Pa- 
 pist, concerning the Church 
 of Rome. London, Printed 
 1660. 
 
 See 'Reliquise' [Lib. I. p. 119] for 
 account of this book. 
 
 XLVI. The Vain Religion of 
 the Formal Hypocrite and the 
 mischief of an unbridled tongue 
 (as against religion, rulers or dis- 
 senters) described in several ser- 
 mons, preached at the Abby \sic\ 
 in Westminster before many mem- 
 bers of the Honourable House df 
 Commons. 1660. And the Fool's 
 Prosperity, the occasion of his de- 
 struction : a Sermon preached at 
 Coven-Garden \sic\ Both pub- 
 lished to heal the effects of some 
 hearers' misunderstandings and 
 mis-reports. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed by R. W. for F. 
 Tyton at the three daggers in 
 Fleet-street, and Nevel vSimmons 
 Bookseller at Kederminster. 1 660. 
 At IS. bound. [18°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 7] — Postscript pp. 3 — Contents pp. 5 
 —Treatise pp. 271 [' Text ' James i. 26J 
 — A separate title as follows : ' The 
 Fool's Prosperity.' A Sermon preached 
 at Coven-Garden : published upon oc- 
 casion of some offence and mis-reports 
 By R. B. Printed in the year 1660 — 
 [Text Proverbs i. 32, 33] — Treatise pp. 
 275-340. 
 
 ^'^ 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 120]. 
 
 XLVII. A Petition for Peace : 
 with the Reformation of the Li- 
 
26 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 turgy. As it was Presented to the 
 Right Reverend Bishops by the 
 Divines appointed by His Majes- 
 ties Commission to treat with 
 them about the alteration of it. 
 
 London, Printed Anno Dom., 
 1 66 1 [4°J. 
 
 Title-page— Petition pp. 1-2 1 — 'The 
 Reformation,' pp. 22-102. 
 
 *^* On this in the ' Reliquiae,' Baxter 
 says 'After our Dispute at the Savoy 
 somebody printed our Papers (most of 
 them) given in to them in that Treaty : 
 of which the Petition for Peace, the Re- 
 formed Liturgy (except the Prayer for 
 the King which Dr W. wrote) the large 
 reply to their Answer of our Exceptions, 
 and the last two Addresses, were my 
 writing. But in the first Proposals and 
 the Excepti.)ns against the Liturgy I had 
 less to do than others' [Lib. L p. 121]. 
 Orme again over-extends his List by 
 making two distinct books of this trac- 
 tate. The following relates to the 
 same : — 
 
 An Accompt of all the Proceed- 
 ings of the Commissioners of both 
 Perswasions appointed by His 
 sacred Majesty, according to Let- 
 ters Patents, for the Review of the 
 Book of Common Prayer. 
 •London, Printed for R. PL, 
 1 66 1 [4°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — A copy of his 
 Majesty's commission 6 pp. [unpaged] 
 and pp. 35 — Documents, 2 pp. [unpaged] 
 and pp. 128. 
 
 XLVHL The Mischiefs of Self- 
 Ignorance and the Benefits of 
 Self-Acquaintance : Opened in 
 divers Sermons at Dunstan'sr 
 West. And Published in answer 
 to the Accusations of some and 
 the Desires of others. By Rich- 
 ard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by R. White 
 for F. Tyton, at the three daggers 
 in Fleet-street, 1662, at 2.s. 6d. 
 bound [i2°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to Anne Countess of Balcarres 
 \sic\ with a Postscript pp. 46 — Another 
 to 'my dearly beloved the inhabitants 
 of the Burrough and Parish of Keder- 
 minster in Worcestershire,' pp. 12 — Con- 
 tents pp. 10 — Errata i page —Treatise 
 pp. 504 — [Text 2 Cor. xiii. 5] 'Cata- 
 
 logue of Books M^ritten and published by 
 the same Author,' pp. 4. 
 \* 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 120.] 
 
 XLIX. Richard Baxter, his 
 Account to his dearly beloved the 
 inhabitants of Kidderminster of 
 the causes of his being forbidden 
 by the Bishop of Worcester to 
 preach within his Diocess. With 
 the Bishop of Worcester's Letter 
 in Answer thereunto. And some 
 short Animadversions upon the 
 said Bishop's Letter. London, 
 Printed Anno Dom. 1662 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — ' To my dearly 
 beloved the inhabitants of the Burrough 
 and Parish of Kederminster in Wor- 
 cester-shire' pp. 6 [unpaged] in the 
 Bishop of Worcester's Letter pp. 118 — 
 the Attestation of Dr Gunning and Dr 
 Pearson concerning a command of law- 
 ful_ superiors, what was sufficient to its 
 being a lawful command, page 19 — the 
 Postscript pp. 20-26 [but pages 25 and 
 26 mispaged 31 and 32 — a letter unto a 
 person of honour and quality containing 
 Animadversions upon the Bishop of Wor- 
 cester's Letter pp. 33 — 41 signed D. E. 
 [continued mis-printing of the pages on 
 from page 25] a 'Second Letter' pp. 42- 
 45 also signed D. E. and a curious little 
 'postscript' on J. C. m. d. page 45. 
 
 *^* Never was a ' Dignitary ' of any 
 Church so mercilessly handled. Baxter 
 is here specially terse and pungent in 
 his style, and has occasional gleams of 
 admirable humour. — The Address to his 
 Kidderminster ' friends ' is very pathetic 
 and intensely earnest. 
 
 L. A Saint or a Brute. The 
 certain Necessity and Excellency 
 of Holiness, etc. So plainly 
 proved and urgently applied, as 
 by the blessing of God may con- 
 vince and save the miserable, 
 impenitent, ungodly sensualists, 
 if they will not let the Devil hinder 
 them from a sober and serious 
 reading and considcjiiii;-. To be 
 communicated by the charitable, 
 that desire the conversion and 
 salvation of souls, while the pa- 
 tience of God and the day of 
 grace and hope continue. By 
 Richard Baxter. The First Part : 
 shewing the necessity of Holiness. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 27 
 
 Francis Tyton, at the three dag- 
 gers in Fleet-street, and Nevil 
 Simmons, Bookseller at Keder- 
 minster, Anno Dom. 1662 [4"]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Dedication ' to 
 my dearly beloved triends, the inhabi- 
 tants of Kederminster,' etc. pp. 9 — The 
 Contents [of both Parts] pp. 5 — The In- 
 troduction pp. 23 [separate pagination] 
 Treatise [from Luke x. 41, 42J pp. 98 — A 
 second title as follows : — ' A Saint or a 
 Brute. The Second Part. Clearly 
 proving by Reason as well as Scripture, 
 I. In general that Holiness is best and 
 necessary to our felicity : 2. Particularly 
 that it is best, i. For Societies, 2. For 
 individual persons. And more distinctly, 
 I. That it is the only way of safety : 2. 
 Of honesty : 3. The most graceful way : 
 4. The most honourable : 5. The most 
 pleasant. And therefore to be chosen 
 by all that will obey true reason and be 
 happy. London, Printed Anno Dom. 
 1662.' Treatise [same text] pp. 101-384. 
 
 LI. Besides the ' Farewell Ser- 
 mon' [No. CXXVI.] there is 
 another in all the Collections of 
 the 'Ejected's' Farewell Sermons. 
 In my copy of the famous quarto 
 of 1663, it follows Jenkyn's, and 
 fills 24 pages — ' Preached August 
 17, 1662.' The text is Colossians 
 ii. 6, 7. 
 
 LII. Fair Warning : or XXV. 
 Reasons against Toleration and 
 Indulgence of Popery ; with the 
 Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's Letter 
 to the King and all the BishojDS of 
 Ireland's Protestation to the Par- 
 liament to the same purpose. With 
 an Answer to the Roman Catho- 
 licks reasons for Indulgence. x\lso 
 the Excellent Reasons of the 
 Honourable House of Commons 
 against Indulgence ; with His- 
 torical Observations thereupon. 
 
 London, Printed for S. U. N. 
 T. F. S. 1663 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title - page — Letter [as 
 above] pp. 2 — Protestation [as above] pp. 
 2 — Appeal [signed John Wigorn] pp. 2 — 
 Twenty-five Reasons pp. 1-23 [signed 
 Richard Baxter, Catholique] — Answer 
 [as above] pp. 23-32 — The excellent Rea- 
 sons [as above] pp. 33-39. 
 
 * ^* This is also found as follows : — 
 
 A Word in Season. Or, The 
 Great Plot for Restoring Popery 
 by Opposing all Settlement and 
 Uniformity, Foreseen by the Or- 
 thodox, Confessed by the Non- 
 conformists ; and managed by the 
 Jesuits, as evidently appeares by 
 their own several following words : 
 
 1. To Remove all Jealousies of 
 the present Government and Re- 
 ligion. 
 
 2. To justifie to all sober and 
 honest Catholicks who are not 
 herein concerned, the present great 
 care and laws against Popery. 
 
 3. And to reclaime all godly 
 Men from those courses against 
 Government that they know and 
 confesse have given, and do give 
 the greatest advantage to Popery. 
 With Serious Considerations to 
 those multitudes of late inclined to 
 Popery : and XL. Godly Reme- 
 dies against it. 
 
 London, Printed for William 
 Squire, 1663. [4°] 
 
 Title-page — and pp. 55 'Finis' 
 being placed on pp. 55 : but theH- 
 after is an ' Appendix ' mis-paged 
 49-60, then 73-76, ' Finis ' being 
 again placed on p. 76 and ' Richard 
 Baxter, Catholique ' immediately 
 beside. To this impression there 
 is this general title-page — 
 
 Fair Warning. First and Second 
 Part. To which is added a Third. 
 By the Direction of the same 
 Person. 
 
 London, Printed for S. T. V. 
 T. 1663 [4°]. 
 
 Orme makes two distinct works 
 of adoz'e, drawing his description 
 from Hallam's Constitutional His- 
 tory,' S. 71. 
 
 LIII. The Divine Life : in 
 three Treatises : the first. Of the 
 Knowledge of God ; the second, 
 Of Walking with God ; the third. 
 Of Conversing with God in Soli- 
 tude. By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed for Francis Tyton at the 
 
28 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 three Daggers in Fleet-street, and 
 Nevil Simmons Bookseller in 
 Kederminster. 1664 [sm. 4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Special title 
 for first part as follows: — * A Treatise of 
 the Knowledge of God and the impres- 
 sion which it must make upon the heart ; 
 and its necessary effects upon our lives. 
 Upon John xvii. 3.' By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as before] — Epistle Dedicatory 
 ' to the right honourable and exemplary 
 lady Ann, countess of Balcarres' pp. 9 — 
 to the Reader pp. 2 — the Contents pp. 4 
 —Errata at bottom of fourth page — 
 Treatise pp. 151. A special title for 
 second part as follows: — 'The Descrip- 
 tion, Reasons and Reward of the Belie- 
 vers Walking with God. On Gen. v. 24.' 
 By Richard Baxter. London [as before] 
 — the Contents pp. 3— Treatise pp. 159- 
 291. A special title for third part as fol- 
 lows: — 'The Christians converse with 
 God: or the Insufficiency and Uncer- 
 tainty of Humane Friendship and the Im- 
 provement of Solitude in Converse with 
 God. With some of the author's breath- 
 ings after him. By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as before] — the Contents pp. 2 
 — Treatise [on John xvi. 32] pp. 297 — 
 [misprinted 379]— 379- My copy has the 
 autograph of Romaine on the front fly- 
 leaf. 
 
 jL.* The general title-page is often 
 a^nting. See ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. pp. 
 120-121] for very interesting autobio- 
 graphic account of this book : and of the 
 portion which * the Bishop's chaplain ' 
 caused to be expunged.' 
 
 LIV. Below [No. LV.] is a 
 ' Second Sheet. ' I have not been 
 able to find a copy of the ' First 
 Sheet.' It is thus described in the 
 * Reliquiae ' [Lib. L p. 122.] 'I 
 wrote two sheets for poor Families : 
 the first containing the method and 
 motives for the conversion of the 
 ungodly.' Orme makes the 
 ' Two Sheets ' one publication. 
 The * Reliquiae ' supra shews this 
 to be incorrect. 
 
 LV. The Second Sheet for Poor 
 Families. Instructions for a Holy 
 Life. By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed by Robert White, for 
 Francis Tyton at the three Dragons 
 in Fleet-street : and for Nevil 
 
 Simmons Bookseller in Keder- 
 minster. 1665. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title — and 14 pp. : dated 
 ' May 10, 1665.' 
 
 *4{.* On my copy there is written on 
 the title-page ' By Subscription at the 
 London Coffee-house ' undated. See 
 ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 122]. 
 
 LVI. The Reasons of the Chris- 
 tian Religion. The first Part of 
 Godliness : proving by natural evi- 
 dence the Being of God, the neces- 
 sity of Holiness and a future life 
 of Retribution ; the sinfulness of 
 the world ; the desert of hell ; and 
 what hope of recovery mercies in- 
 timate. The second Part of Chris- 
 tianity : Proving by Evidence 
 super-natural and natural, the cer- 
 tain truth of the Christian Belief ; 
 and answering the Objections of 
 Unbelievers. First meditated for 
 the well-setling of his own belief, 
 and now published for the benefit 
 of others, by Richard Baxter. It 
 openeth also the true Resolution 
 of the Christian Faith. Also an 
 Appendix defending the soul's im- 
 mortality against the.Somatists and 
 Epicureans and other Pseudo-phi- 
 losophers. London, Printed by 
 R. White for Fran. Titon at the 
 three Daggers in Fleet-street. 
 1667. [4°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Chris- 
 tian Reader pp. 8 — To the doubting and 
 the unbelieving readers pp. 7 — To the 
 hypocrite readers pp. 7 — the Contents 
 pp. 7 — Errata i page— Treatise pp. 604. 
 
 *^* The 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 61] 
 gives the occasion of this lucid and un- 
 answerable book,which anticipates nearly 
 all vaunted modern objections — and 
 refutes them, 
 
 LVI I. Directions for Weak dis- 
 tempered Christians to Grow up to 
 a confirmed State of Grace. With 
 Motives opening the lamentable 
 Effects of their Weaknesses and 
 Distempers. The First Part. 
 Published also to further that 
 Repentance which Wars, and 
 
Writmgs of Richard Baxter. 
 
 29 
 
 Plagues and Flames and Church- 
 Convulsions, have so long and 
 loudly Preached to England. By 
 Richard Baxter. London, Printed 
 for Nevil wSimmons at the Three 
 Crowns over against Holborn Con- 
 duit. 1669 [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to Church at Kederminster pp. 
 3 — The Preface pp. 13 — The Contents 
 pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 158. 
 
 V 'Reliquiai' [Part III. p. 61]. 
 ' This book came forth when I was in 
 prison, being long before refused by Mr 
 Grigg.' 
 
 LVIII. The Character of a 
 Sound Conlirmed Christian, as 
 also 2. Of a Weak Christian ; and 
 3. Of a Seeming Christian. Writ- 
 ten to imprint upon men's minds 
 the true Idea or (conception) of 
 Godliness and Christianity. By 
 Richard Baxter. The Second Part 
 of the Directions for Weak Chris- 
 tians. 
 
 London, Printed by R. White 
 for Nevil Simmons at the Three 
 Crowns near Holborn Conduit. 
 1669. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page— To the Reader 
 pp. 7— Contents pp. 7 — Treatise pp. 183. 
 
 *^* * Reliquiae ' as in LV. 
 
 LIX. The Life of Faith. In 
 three parts. The first is a sermon 
 on Hebrews xi. i, formerly preached 
 before his Majesty, and published 
 by his command ; with another 
 added for the fuller application. 
 The second is Instructions for 
 confirming believers in the Chris- 
 tian Faith. The third is Direc- 
 tions how to live by faith or how 
 to exercise it upon all occasions. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed by R. W. for Nevil Sim- 
 mons at the three crowns over 
 against Holborn Conduit. 1670. 
 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Portrait of Baxter * ^Etat 
 55, 1670 ' with long love-locks, mous- 
 tache and imperial — curious engraved 
 title-page (a reduction of that prefixed to 
 the ' Saint's Everlasting Rest'). [See No. 
 
 II. (7).] — Title-page as supra — Epistle 
 Dedicatory ' to the worshipfull, my much 
 honoured friend, Richard Hampden of 
 Hampden Esquire and the Lady Laetitia, 
 his wife' pp. 6 — the Preface pp. 4 — the 
 Contents pp. 5 — Errata i page, wherein 
 ' the first and great errour of the printer 
 is that he hath not distinguished the three 
 distinct parts ' — another Epistle or Ad- 
 dress to the Reader asking his * Holy 
 Commonwealth ' for reasons assigned, to 
 be regarded as non-scripttan [See No. 
 XLIV.] pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 607 — a cata- 
 logue of books written and published by 
 the same author and other books pub- 
 lished by Simmons pp. 4. 
 
 '^^ See ' Reliquiae ' [Part III. p. 61]. 
 
 LX. The Cure of Church-divi- 
 sions : or Directions for weak 
 Christians to keep them from 
 being Dividers or Troublers of the 
 Church. With some Directions 
 to the Pastors how to deal with 
 such Christians. By Richard Bax- 
 ter. London, Printed by Nevil 
 Simmons at the three crowns over 
 against Holborn-Conduit. 1670 
 [thick 12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Author's 
 purpose, reasons and prognostics pp. 34 
 — Abstract of the directions pp. 12 — 
 Treatise pp. 430 — Violence, Love and 
 Separation contrasted in three columns 
 pp. 5 — Errata i page — books by Baxter, 
 etc. p. 6. 
 
 *-t* In * Reliquiae ' [Part III. pp. 70, 71] 
 will be found account of a lamentable 
 dispute between the booksellers [or Pub- 
 lishers] : wherein Baxter shews that 
 when he elected to use it he had rare 
 sarcastic power and even humour — See 
 also p. 72, 
 
 LXI. A Defence of the Princi- 
 ciples of Love which are neces- 
 sary to the unity and concord of 
 Christians ; and are delivered in a 
 book called the Cure of Church- 
 Divisions. I. Inviting all sound 
 and sober Christians (by what 
 name soever called) to receive 
 each other to communion in the 
 same Churches. II. And when 
 that (which is first desirable) can- 
 not be obtained, to bear with each 
 other in their distinct Assemblies 
 and to manage them all in Chris- 
 tian love. Written to detect and 
 
30 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 eradicate all love-killing, dividing 
 and Church-destroying principles, 
 passions and practices, and to pre- 
 serve the weak in this hour of 
 manifold temptations. By Richard 
 Baxter, one of the Mourners for 
 a self-dividing and self-afflicting 
 Land. London, Printed for Ne- 
 vill Simmons at the sign of the 
 three Crowns near Holborn Con- 
 duit. 1671 [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — quotations 
 from Calvin pp. 4 — Contents pp. 8 — the 
 Preface ' to those Readers who are of 
 the Exceptor's mind and are offended at 
 my book called the Cure of Church- 
 Divisions, pp. 22— Then a separate title 
 as follows : ' The General Part or Intro- 
 duction to the Defence of my Cure of 
 Church-Divisions, being a Narrative of 
 those late actions which have occasioned 
 the offence of men in both extremes ; 
 with the true reasons of them, and of 
 those writings which some account un- 
 reasonable : with the true stating of the 
 Case of that Separation which my op- 
 posed treatise meddletb with : and an 
 answer to several great objections. Print- 
 ed in the year 1671 — pp. 25-104 — Part 
 II. pp. 1-150 — Postscript pp. 151-183. 
 
 *** See ' Reliquise ' [Part III. p. 73] 
 for account of the reception of No. LXI.: 
 and of the occasion of this ' Defence.' 
 Again Dr Owen acted most disingenu- 
 ously — Darling misunderstanding Ca- 
 LAMY gives two ' Defences ' for this one. 
 
 LXIL Now or Never. The 
 Holy, Serious, Diligent Believer 
 justified, encouraged, excited and 
 directed. And the Opposers and 
 Neglecters convinced by the light 
 of Scripture and Reason. By 
 Richard Baxter. To be commu- 
 nicated by such as want ability or 
 opportunity themselves to plead 
 the cause of Serious Holiness, for 
 men's conviction. 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 F. Tyton, at the three Daggers in 
 Fleet-street, and Nevil Simmons 
 at the three Crowns near Holborn 
 Conduit. 1 67 1 [18°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 37 — The Contents pp. 6 — Treatise 
 pp. 240. 
 
 *^(.* A quaint little edition was pub- 
 
 lished at Edinburgh immediately. * Print- 
 ed by Andrew Anderson, and are to be 
 sold at his house on the north side of the 
 street fore-gainst the Cross. Anno Dom. 
 1672 [iB-J. 
 
 LXH. The Divine Appoint- 
 ment of the Lord's Day proved : 
 as a separated day for holy Wor- 
 ship ; especially in the Church 
 Assemblies. And consequently 
 the cessation of the seventh day 
 Sabbath. Written for the satis- 
 faction of some religious persons 
 who were lately drawn into error 
 or doubting in both these points. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simmons at the 
 three Crowns near Holborn Con- 
 duit. 1 67 1 [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Contents 
 pp. 6 — Treatise pp. 153. There follows : 
 ' An Appendix for further Confirmation 
 of God's own Separation of the Lord's 
 Day, and disproving of the Jewish 
 seventh day Sabbalh. Written since 
 the Treatise went to the Press, upon the 
 invitations of some latter objections. 
 London [as beforej — pp. 157-227 — Post- 
 script pp. 229-237. 
 
 V ' Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 74.] 
 
 LXIV. The Duty of Heavenly 
 Meditation reviewed by Richard 
 Baxter at the invitation of Mr Giles 
 Firmin's Exceptions, in his book 
 entitled The Real Christian. Lon- 
 don, Printed for Nevil Simmons 
 at the sign of the three crowns 
 near Holbom-conduit. 1671 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Treatise pp. 33. 
 
 *^* * Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 74.] 
 
 LX V. How far Holinesse is the 
 Design of Christianity. Where 
 the Nature of Holiness and Mo- 
 rality is opened and the Doctrine 
 of Justification, Imputation of Sin 
 and Righteousness, etc., partly 
 cleared and vindicated from abuse. 
 In certain Propositions returned to 
 an unknown Person, referring to 
 Mr Fowler's Treatise on this sub- 
 ject. London, Printed for Nevill 
 Simmons at the Three Crowns at 
 Holborn Conduit. 167 1 [4°]. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 31 
 
 Collation. : Title-page and pp. 24 — At 
 bottom of p. 22 date ' Aug. 24 (the fatal 
 day) 167 1.' On p. 23 ' What Happiness 
 is.' ' What Holiness or virtue is.' On 
 p. 24 * Holiness not fanatically proud or 
 aspiring.' 
 
 V^ See ' Reliquiae ' [Part III. p. 85] 
 for notice of Fowler — Baxter excels in 
 these etchings or sketches of character. 
 
 LXVI. The Difference between 
 the Power of Magistrates and 
 Church- Pastors and the Roman 
 Kingdom and Magistracy under 
 the name of a Church and Church- 
 Government usurped by the Pope 
 or Hberally given him by Popish 
 Princes: Opened by Richard Bax- 
 ter. To the Learned and sincere 
 Ludovicus MoHnoeus Dr of Physick 
 and Author of Jugukim Causae, 
 Papa Uhrajectinus, and other 
 books on this subject. For the 
 Vindication of the true Pastoral 
 Discipline exercised by the ancient 
 Churches and claimed but alas ! 
 too little exercised, by the Churches 
 Protestant and Reformed. And to 
 acquaint Posterity what we hold in 
 this, that false accusations misin- 
 form them not. London, Printed 
 for Nevil Simmons at the sign of 
 r the three Crowns near Holborn 
 Conduit. 1 67 1. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 2. Treatise pp. 59. 
 
 V See * Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 85] for 
 . a characteristic notice of the occasion of 
 this treatise. 
 
 LXVII. God's Goodness Vin- 
 dicated. For the help of such 
 (especially in Melancholy) as are 
 Tempted to deny it and think him 
 Cruel because of the Present and 
 ' Future Misery of Mankind : With 
 respect to the Doctrine of Repro- 
 bation and Damnation. By 
 Richard .Baxter. Published and 
 Prefaced by a Friend at whose 
 desire it was Written and to whom 
 it was Committed. 
 
 London, Printed for N. Sim 
 mons at the three Crowns near 
 Holborn Conduit. 1671. [sm. 
 18°]. 
 
 Collation : .Title-page. The Publisher 
 to the Reader pp. 4. Treatise pp. 99. 
 
 *^* There is no text : but on the title- 
 page I John iv. 16. This is extremely 
 rare. The ' friend ' was the famous John 
 Corbet. See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 
 85]. 
 
 LXVIII. A Second Admoni- 
 tion to Mr Edward Bagshaw : 
 Written to call him to Repentance 
 for many false doctrines, crimes, 
 and specially fourscore palpable 
 untruths in matter of fact, deli- 
 berately published by him in two 
 small libels ; in which he exem- 
 plifieth the love-killing and de- 
 praving principles of Church -divi- 
 ders : and telleth the world to 
 what men are hasting, when they 
 sinfully avoid Communion with 
 true Churches and Christians for 
 tolerable faults. With a Confuta- 
 tion of his Reasons for Separation : 
 Written to preserve the weak, to 
 resist the dividing temptations of 
 the imperious, unskilful clergy, to 
 revive our dying hopes of Concord 
 and to vindicate the Nonconform- 
 able ministers from the unjust im- 
 putation of schismatical principles. 
 By Richard Baxter, a long maligned 
 and resisted endeavourer of the 
 Churches unity and peace. Lon- 
 don, Printed jfor Nevill Simmons 
 at the Three Crowns near Hol- 
 born Conduit. 1671. [8°]. 
 
 CollatioJi : Title-page. Contents pp. 
 7. Treatise pp. 188. Postscript pp. 
 188-190. fly-leaf i page about misquota- 
 tion on Cromwell. 
 
 VSee 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 85 
 on Bagshaw. 
 
 LXIX. More Reasons for the 
 Christian Religion and No Reason 
 against it. Or a Second Appendix 
 to the Reasons of the Christian 
 Religion, Being 
 
 I. An Answer to a Letter 
 from an unknown Person, 
 charging the Holy Scrip- 
 tures with Contradictions. 
 
 II. Some Animadversions on. 
 a Tractate De Veritatc, 
 
 F 
 
32 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 written by the noble and 
 learned Lord Edward Her- 
 bert, Baron of Chizbury 
 [sic] etc. and printed at 
 Paris 1624 and at London 
 1633. Resolving Twelve 
 Questions about Christian- 
 ity. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed for Nevil 
 Simmons at the Princes 
 Arms in St Pauls Church- 
 yard, 1672. [18°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. Epistle Dedica- 
 tory * To the Right Worshipful Sir Henry- 
 Herbert, Kt. etc' 4 pp. — and pp. 172. 
 * Errata ' on fly-leaf. 
 
 ***The 'Epistle Dedicatory' being 
 addressed to the brother of Lord Herbert 
 Baxter writes very lovingly of the family, 
 especially of the ' excellently holy as well 
 as learned and ingenious a person Mr 
 George Herbert orator to the University 
 of Cambridge and a faithful Pastor in the 
 English Church.' He praises much in 
 the De Veritate : and he thus closes ' I 
 may well suppose that your approbation 
 of the cause I plead for will make it 
 needless to me to apologize for my bold- 
 ness in meddling much with such an 
 Author, while I do it with all tenderness 
 of his deserved honour.' The 'Letter' 
 from the ' unknown person ' is given pp. 
 1-7. It is signed ' Your loving Friend in 
 the Bond of Peace.' The alleged diffi- 
 culties adduced relate to the apparently 
 discrepant accounts of the Resurrection 
 of our Lord. Baxter replies with much 
 sagacity and insight and more terseness 
 than was common with him — adducing 
 Hammond and other authorities with 
 fine catholicity of appreciation. See 
 'Reliquiae' [Part IIL p. 90]. 
 
 LXX. A Treatise of Death the 
 Last Enemy to be destroyed. 
 Shewing wherein its enmity con- 
 sisteth and how it is destroyed. 
 Part of it was preached at the 
 P'uneral of Elizabeth the late wife 
 of Mr Joseph Baker, Pastor of the 
 Church at Saint Andrews in Wor- 
 cester. By Rich. Baxter. With 
 some few passages of the life of the 
 said Mrs Baker observed. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simmons at the 
 Princes Arms in St Pauls Church- 
 yard 1672. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. Epistle Dedi- 
 
 catory to Mayor etc. of Worcester, pp. 32. 
 Contents pp. 3. Treatise [on i Corin- 
 thians XV. 26] pp. 143. ' Some suitable 
 passages of the life of Mrs Baker' pp. 
 144-159. 
 *^*See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 120]. 
 
 LXXL Sacrilegious Desertion 
 of the holy ministery rebuked and 
 tolerated preaching of the Gospel 
 vindicated, against the reasonings 
 of a confident Questionest in a 
 book called [Toleration not to be 
 abused] with Counsel to the Non- 
 conformists and Petition to the 
 Pious Conformists. By one that 
 is consecrated to the Sacred Minis- 
 tery and is resolved not to be a 
 wilful deserter of it, in trust that 
 any undertakers can justifie him 
 for such desertion at the judgment 
 of God ; till he knew better how 
 those can come off themselves who 
 are unfaithful Pastors or unjust 
 Silencers of others. Printed in 
 the year, 1672 [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Treatise pp. 
 139 — On the reverse of page%39 a few 
 errata. 
 
 *:^* See ' Reliquiae [Part IH. p. 102]— 
 Extremely rare : and historically im- 
 portant as shewing the ground-princi- 
 ple whereon the 'Ejected' rested in 
 refusing to cease the exercise of their func- 
 j.ion as ' Preachers.' 
 
 LXXII. The Certainty of Chris- 
 tianity without Popery : or 
 whether the Catholick Protestant 
 or the Papist have the surer faith. 
 Being an Answer to one of the oft 
 canted questions and challenges of 
 the Papists, sent to one who de- 
 sired this. Published to direct 
 the unskilful how to defend their 
 faith againt Papists and Infidels, 
 but especially against the Tempta- 
 tions of the Devil, that by saving 
 their Faith they may save their 
 Holiness, their Comfort and their 
 souls. By Richard Baxter. Lon- 
 don, Printed by Nevil Simons 
 at the Sign of the Prince's Arms 
 in St Paul's Church -yard, 1672 
 
 [12-]. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 ^Z 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Address to the 
 Protestant Reader pp. 3 — Paper ' from 
 an unknown person in a letter,' pp. 6 — 
 Contents pp. 3 — Treatise pp. 112. 
 
 %* See ' Reliquiae' [Part III. pp. 99]. 
 
 LXXIIL The Church Told of 
 Mr Ed. Bagshaw's Scandals and 
 Warned of the dangerous snares 
 of Satan now laid for them in his 
 Love-Killing Principles : With a 
 farther proof that it is our com- 
 mon duty to keep up the interest 
 of the Christian Religion, and 
 Protestant Cause in the Parish 
 Churches, and not to imprison 
 them by a confinement to tolerated 
 meetings alone. By Richard Bax- 
 ter, a Mihtant Servant of Christ 
 for Faith, Hope, and Love, Unity, 
 Concord, and Peace, against their 
 contraries on both extremes. 
 
 London, Printed in the year 
 1672 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page and Errata on 
 reverse — pp 32. 
 
 ■*•** The following from the * Reliquiae' 
 [Part III. p. 89] is interesting — 'Mr 
 Bagshaw*-in his rash and ignorant zeal, 
 thinking it a sin to hear; a Conformist, 
 and that the way to deal with the per- 
 secutors was to draw all the people as 
 far away from them as we could, and not 
 to hold any communion with any that did 
 conform— having printed his third revil- 
 ing libel against me, called for my third 
 Reply which I entitled "The Church 
 Told," etc. But being printed without 
 licence, L' Estrange the Searcher, sup- 
 pressed part of it in the press — there being 
 lately greater penalties laid on them that 
 print without a licence than ever before 
 — And about the day that it came out 
 Mr Bagshaw died — a prisoner though 
 not in prison : which made it grievious 
 to me to think that I would seem to 
 write against the dead. While we 
 VJrangle here in the dark, we are dying- 
 and passing to the world that will 
 decide all our controversies : and the 
 safest passage thither is by peaceable 
 holiness.' 
 
 LXXIV. A Christian Directory: 
 or a Summ of Practical Theolo- 
 gie and Cases of Conscience. Di- 
 recting Christians how to use their 
 Knowledge and Faith ; how to 
 improve all Helps and Means and 
 to perform all Duties; how to 
 
 overcome Temptations and to 
 escape or mortifie every Sin. In 
 Four Parts, I. Christian Ethicks 
 (or private Duties) II. Christian 
 Oeconomicks (or Family Duties) 
 III. Christian Ecclesiesticks (or 
 Church Duties) IV. Christian 
 Politicks (or Duties to our Rulers 
 and Neighbours). By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed by Ro- 
 bert White for Nevill Simmons 
 at the sign of the Princes Arms 
 in St Paul's Church-yard, 1673, 
 [folio]. 
 
 Collation : Prefixed is the curious em- 
 blematical title-page as ante. — Title- 
 page — Advertisements [i.e. Preface] 
 pp. 7 — Contents pp.21 — an alphabetical 
 Table and and Errata pp. 15 — There are 
 separate titles as follows : — 
 
 1. A Christian Directory. The 
 First Part : Christian Ethicks or 
 Directions for the ordering of the 
 private actions of our hearts and 
 lives in the work of holy self-go- 
 vernment unto and under God. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed by Robert White for Ne- 
 vill Simmons at the Three Crowns 
 near Holborn Conduit 1672 — 
 Title and pp. 469. 
 
 2. A Christian Directory or a 
 Sum of Practical Divinity. The 
 Second Part : viz. Christian Oeco- 
 nomicks ; or the Family Directory, 
 containing Directions for the true 
 practice of all duties belonging to 
 Family relations, with the Appur- 
 tenances. By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as in the general title- 
 page] — Title and pp. 475-667. 
 
 3. A Christian Directory. The 
 Third Part. Christian Ecclesias- 
 ticks ; or Directions to Pastors and 
 People about sacred doctrine, wor- 
 ship and discipline and their 
 mutual duties. With the solution 
 of a multitude of Church-contro- 
 versies and cases of conscience. 
 By Richard Baxter. London [as 
 the last] Title — Note I page and 
 pp. 673-929, 
 
34 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 4. A Christian Directoiy or a 
 Summ of Practical Divinity by 
 way of Direction. The Fourth 
 Part. Christian Pohticks: con- 
 taining all the duties of the six 
 last commandments in our poli- 
 tical relations and towards our 
 neighbours. With the principal 
 Cases of Conscience about them. 
 By Richard Baxter. London [as 
 the last] Title — Epistle pp. 2 and 
 pp. 214 — Advertisements [to 
 Readers] pp. 8, giving account 
 of the Books, signed ' a most un- 
 worthy servant of so good a Mas- 
 ter' — Contents of all pp. 19 — 
 Errata i page. 
 
 *** Joseph Thompson Esq. Ardwick, 
 Manchester has in his fine Collection a 
 copy of above work which from the 
 crowns (in gold} and initials appears to 
 have been in the possession of Charles 
 II. It is a fine copy in full red morocco 
 and has White's portrait from the ' Re- 
 liquisei' prefixed. A 'second' edition was 
 published in 1678. — A comparison of the 
 pagination, etc. shews it to have been 
 a re-print and not a mere re-issue. — ' The 
 most complete ['Directory'] that is ex- 
 tant in the English language or perhaps 
 in any other.' Calainy, 'Account,' Vol. 
 I. p. 416. See 'Reliquiae,' [Part III. 
 p. 61]. 
 
 LXXV. Short Instructions for 
 the Sick, Especially for the [who 
 by] Contagion or otherwise are 
 deprived of the Presence of a 
 faithful Pastor. By Richard Bax- 
 ter. 1673. A folio broad-sheet. 
 At the bottom ' This was written 
 in the time of the great plague 
 1665 for the sick in the city of 
 London : but because it is the work 
 of all our lives to prepare for a 
 safe and comfortable death it is 
 reprinted for the use of all. 1673.' 
 
 %* British Museum copy has by a 
 contemporary ' for the ' erazed and * who 
 by' inserted, 2l% supra. Query 'those?' 
 See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. 1. p. 121]. 
 
 LXXVI. Full and Easy Satis- 
 faction which is the True and Safe 
 Religion. In a Conference be- 
 tween D. a Doubter, P. a Papist 
 
 and R. a Reformed Catholick 
 Christian. In Four Parts. 
 
 i. The true stating of our Dif- 
 ference and opening what each 
 Religion is : 
 
 ii. The true, easie and full Jus- 
 tification of the Reformed or Pro- 
 testant Religion. 
 
 iii. The Protestant's Reasons 
 and Charges against Popery enume- 
 rated. 
 
 iv. The first Charge, viz., 
 Against Transubstantiation made 
 good ; In which Popery is proved 
 to be the Shame of Humane Na- 
 ture, notoriously contrary to Sense, 
 Reason, Scripture and Tradition, 
 or the Judgment of the Antient and 
 the Present Church ; devised by 
 Satan to expose Christianity to 
 the Scorn of Infidels. By Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed for Nev. Sim- 
 mons at the Princes Arms in St. 
 Pauls Church-yard. 1674. [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page. Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to the Duke of Lauderdail \sic\ 
 pp. 13. To the Reader pp. 3. The 
 Contents and Errata pp. 4. pp. 189. 
 
 *** On back of p. 189 is a notice that 
 'the First Part of the Key for Catholicks 
 being re-printed ' is intended ' to be 
 bound ' with the above, as ' the chief 
 part of the book.' See ' Reliquiae ' [Part 
 III. p. 107] for a fuller account. 
 
 LXXVII. The Poor Man's 
 Family Book. 
 
 i. Teaching him how to become 
 a true Christian. 
 
 ii. How to live as a Christian, 
 towards God, himself and others, 
 in all his relations ; especially in 
 his Family. 
 
 iii. How to die as a Christian 
 in Hope and Comfort, and so to 
 be Glorified with Christ for ever. 
 In plain, familiar Conferences be- 
 tween a Teacher and a Learner. 
 Written by Rich. Baxter. With 
 a request to Landlords and Rich 
 men to give to their Tenants and 
 poor Neighbours, either this or 
 some fitter Book. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 35 
 
 London, Printed by R. W. for 
 Nevill Simmons at the Sign of the 
 Prince's Arms in St Paul's Church- 
 yard. 1674. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page. A Request to 
 the Rich pp. 2, To the Reader pp. 3. 
 The Contents pp 6. Treatise pp. 423. 
 Forms of Prayer etc. pp. 117 [but a mis- 
 pagination after page 100, 97 being re- 
 peated thereafter and the further pagina- 
 tion reckoned therefrom.] 
 
 *^* I have the ' 5th edn. ' which bears 
 to be ' corrected by the Author, with the 
 additions of some hymns,' 1684. ' Re- 
 liquiae' [Part III. p. 147]. 
 
 LXXVIII. An Appeal to the 
 Light or Richard Baxter's Ac- 
 count of four accused passages of 
 a Sermon on Eph. i. 3 pubHshed 
 in hope either to procure the con- 
 vincing instructions of the wise or 
 to humble and stop the erroneous 
 resisters of the truth. Read Joh. 
 3. 20, 21 and Jam. 3. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simmons at the 
 Princes-Arms in St Paul's Church- 
 yard, 1674 [sm. 4°). 
 
 Collat^n : Title-page — 'Appeal' 
 pp. 6. 
 
 *4^* On page 6 is this * Postscript ' 
 which reminds us of Bunyan's like com- 
 plaints, ' I must here tell the world that 
 there are divers sheets published and 
 cryed about as mine : with my name 
 prefixed : as one called Mr Baxter's 
 Directions for Family Duties ; another 
 of Sentences about Conversion, and 
 more such, which are none of mine, but 
 are falsely so pretended, to my wrong : 
 some said to be printed by John Coniers 
 in Southwark, and some by others.' See 
 'Reliquiae^ [Part III. p. 154]. 
 
 LXXIX. Richard Baxter's 
 Catholick Theologie : plain, pure, 
 peaceable : for Pacification of the 
 dogmatical Word-Warriours who 
 I . By contending about things un- 
 revealed or not understood 2. and 
 by taking verbal differences for 
 real, and their arbitrary notions 
 for necessary sacred truths, de- 
 ceived and deceiving by ambi- 
 guous unexplained words, have 
 long been the shame of the Chris- 
 tian Religion, a scandal and 
 hardning to unbelievers, the in- 
 
 cendiaries, dividers and distracters 
 of the Church, the occasion of 
 State discords and wars, the cor- 
 rupters of the Christian Faith and 
 the subverters of their own souls 
 and their followers, calling them 
 to a blind zeal and wrathful war- 
 fare against true piety, love and 
 peace, and teaching them to cen- 
 sure, backbite, slander, and prate 
 against each other, for things 
 which they never understood. In 
 three books. I. Pacifying prin- 
 ciples about God's decrees, fore- 
 knowledge. Providence, operations, 
 redemption, grace, man's power, 
 free-will, justification, merits, cer- 
 tainty of salvation, perseverance, 
 etc. II. A pacifying praxis or 
 dialogue about the five articles, 
 justification, etc. proving that men 
 here contend almost only about 
 ambiguous words and unrevealed 
 things. III. Pacifying disputa- 
 tions against some real errors which 
 hinder reconciliation viz. about 
 physical predetermination, original 
 sin, the extent of redemption, suffi- 
 cient grace, imputation of right- 
 eousness, etc. Written chiefly for 
 Posterity, when sad experience 
 hath taught men to hate theologi- 
 cal logical wars, and to love, and 
 sue, and call for peace. (Ex Bello 
 Pax). London, Printed by Robert 
 White for Nevill Simmons at the 
 Princes Arms in St Pauls Church- 
 yard. 1675 [folio]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Quotations 
 pp. 5 — the Preface pp. 26 — * Table ' of 
 * Divisions and Corltentions of Christians 
 I page. Then a separate title-page as 
 follows : — ' Catholick Theologie: The 
 first Book. Pacifying Principles col- 
 lected from the common notices of 
 Nature, the certain Oracles of God in 
 the Holy Scriptures and the common 
 consent of Christians. For the reconcil- 
 ing of the Church-dividing and destroy- 
 ing Controversies, especially about Pre- 
 destination, Providence, Grace and Free- 
 will, Redemption, Justification, Faith, 
 Merit, Works, Certainty of Salvation, 
 Perseverance, and many others. In 
 three Parts. I. Of God's nature, know- 
 
z^ 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 ledge, decrees (and Providence about 
 sin, with man's free-will as the objects of 
 the former). II. Of God's government 
 and moral works. III. Of God's opera- 
 tions on man's soul. By Richard Baxter, 
 an earnest desirer of the unity, love and 
 peace of Christians : for endeavouring 
 of which he expecteth with resolved 
 patience, still to undergo the censures, 
 slanders and cruelties of ignorance, 
 pride and malice, from all that are pos- 
 sessed by the wisdom and zeal which 
 are from beneath, earthly, sensual and 
 devilish, ^ the causes of confusion and 
 every evil work. James iii. 14, 15, 16. 
 
 London [as in ^^//^r^/ title-page]. 
 Then a third title-page — 
 
 {a) The First Part : Of the 
 Nature, Relations, Knowledge and 
 Decrees of God and of Free-Will 
 and Providence as the Objects 
 thereof. Such selected Verities 
 as are needful to reconcile the 
 common Differences about Pre- 
 destination, Providence, Grace and 
 Free Will ; between the Synodists 
 and Arminians, Calvinists and 
 Lutherans, Dominicans and Jesuits, 
 etc. By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as before]. 
 General title-page to 1st Book 
 supra (i) — Separate title-page to 
 1st Part — The Contents pp. 2 — 
 Errata i page — pp. 136. Then — 
 {b) The Second Part : Of God's 
 Government and Moral Works. 
 Wherein of his laws or Covenants, 
 of Redemption, of sufficient and 
 effectual Grace, of Faith, Justifi- 
 cation, Works, Merits, Persever- 
 ance, certainty of Salvation, etc. 
 so far as the Church-troubling- 
 Controversies do require. 
 London [as before]. 
 Separate title — The Contents 
 pp. 2 — A Premonition pp. 26 — 
 Appendix to this Premonition 
 pp. 4 [unpaged] — pp. 27-124. 
 Then — 
 
 {c) The Third Part : Of God's 
 Gracious Operations on Man's 
 Soul ; their Difference and the 
 Operations of Man's Will. For 
 the fuller Decision of the Contro- 
 versies about Effectual and Dif- 
 
 ferencing Grace. By Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London [as before]. 
 
 Separate title — The Contents 
 pp. 2 — pp. 118. Then — 
 
 Catholick Theology: The Second 
 Book. The Synodists and Ar- 
 minians, Calvinists and Lutherans, 
 Dominicans and Jesuits Recon- 
 ciled. Or An End of the Contro- 
 versies about God's Decrees and 
 Grace and Man's Free Will, 
 Merit, &c. if men are willing. A 
 Retreat to the Militant Divines 
 who have too long warred about 
 words and unrevealed things ; and 
 kept the Church of God in Flames 
 and drawn Christ's Members to 
 hate, reproach and persecute each 
 other for they knew not what. In 
 a Dialogue between C. (a Calvin- 
 ist) A. (an Arminian) and B. (the 
 Reconciler) : and others. By 
 Richard Baxter. 
 
 London [as before]. 
 
 Separate title — The Contents 5 
 —pp. 299. 
 
 V See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 181] 
 for notice of this ' matter-full ' book. 
 
 LXXX. More Proofs of In- 
 fants Church -Membership and 
 consequently their right to Bap- 
 tism : or a Second Defence of our 
 infant rights and mercies. In 
 three parts. The first is. The 
 plain proof of God's statute or 
 covenant for infants Church-mem- 
 bership from the Creation, and the 
 continuance of it till the institution 
 of Baptism ; with the Defence of 
 that proof against the frivolous ex- 
 ceptions of Mr Tombes. And a 
 Confutation of Mr Tombes, his 
 arguments against Infants Church- 
 membership. The second is, A 
 Confutation of the strange forgeries 
 of Mr H. Danvers against the 
 antiquity of infant baptism and of 
 his many calumnies against myself 
 and writings. With a catalogue 
 of fifty-six new commandments and 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 37 
 
 doctrines which he and the sec- 
 1 taries who joyn with him in those 
 calumnies seem to own. The third 
 part is Animadversions on Mr 
 Danver's Reply to Mr Wilks. 
 Extorted by their urgent impor- 
 tunity from an earnest desirer of 
 the love and peace of all true 
 Christians. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed for N. Simmons 
 at the Princes Arms and J. Robin- 
 son at the Golden Lyon in St 
 Pauls Church-yard. 167$. [8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 4 — Contents pp. 8 — Treatise pp. 414. 
 At close of page 414 is a curious notice 
 of the * hawkers ' crying B.'s books 
 * under his window ' as aJtle — book advt. 
 
 V See ' Reliquise' [Part III. p. 187] 
 where Baxter describes above as consist- 
 ing of a * few sheets ' whereas it is a con- 
 siderable volume. 
 
 LXXXI. In the different edi- 
 tions of the 'Morning Exercise 
 against Popery' [1675] the 5th 
 Sermon is by Baxter ' Against any 
 meer Humane Head of the Church 
 of Christ, either Personal or Col- 
 lective. ' 
 
 LXXXII. Two Disputations of 
 Original Sin. I. Of original sin. 
 11. Of original sin, as from our 
 neerer parents. Written long ago 
 for a more private use ; and now 
 pubHshed — with a Preface — upon 
 the invitation of Dr T. Tullie. By 
 Richard Baxter. London, Printed 
 for Robert Gibbs at the Golden 
 Ball in Chancery- Lane, 1675 [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — 'To the im- 
 partial friends of sacred truth pp. 64 — 
 Treatise pp. 65-245. 
 
 LXXXIII. Select Arguments 
 and Reasons against Popery. By 
 R. Baxter. London, Printed in 
 the year 1675. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page— pp. 6. 
 
 *^* The only copy of this tract that I 
 have found is in ' Sion College ' Library. 
 
 LXXXI V. A Treatise of Jus- 
 tifying Righteousness. In Two 
 Books : I. A Treatise of Imputed 
 
 Righteousness, opening and de- 
 fending the True Sense, and con- 
 futing the False, with many of Dr 
 Tullie's Reasonings against Truth, 
 Peace and Me : With an Answer 
 to Dr TuUie's Letter adjoyned. 
 II. A Friendly Debate with the 
 Learned and Worthy Mr Chris- 
 topher Cartwright, containing I. 
 His Animadversions on my Apho- 
 risms with my Answer. 2. His 
 Exceptions against that Answer. 
 3. My Reply to the Summe of 
 the Controversies agitated in those 
 Exceptions. All PubHshed in- 
 stead of a fuller Answer to the 
 Assaults in Dr Tullie's Justificatio 
 Paulina^ for the quieting of Cen- 
 sorious and Dividing Contenders, 
 who raise odious Reports of their 
 Brethren as Popish etc. who do 
 but attempt Reconcilingly to open 
 this Doctrine more clearly than 
 themselves. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed for Nevil Si- 
 mons and Jonath. Robinson at the 
 Prince's-Arms and Golden-Lion 
 in St Paul's Church-yard. 1676. 
 [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page— To the Readers 
 pp. 14. 
 
 There are separate titles as 
 follows : — 
 
 (i. ) Of the Imputation of Christ's 
 Righteousness to Believers: in what 
 sence sound Protestants hold it ; 
 and of the false devised sence by 
 whichLibertines subvert theGospel. 
 With an Answer to some common 
 Obj ections, especially of Dr Thomas 
 Tully whose Justif. Paulina occa- 
 sioneth the publication of this. 
 By Richard Baxter a compassionate 
 Lamenter of the Churches wounds 
 caused by hasty judging and un- 
 digested conceptions and by the 
 theological wars which are hereby 
 raised and managed ; by perswad- 
 ing the world that meer verbal or 
 notional differences are material 
 and such as our faith, love, con- 
 
38 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 cord and communion must be 
 measured by, for want of an exact 
 discussion of the ambiguity of 
 words. London [as before] — the 
 Preface pp. 15. Contents pp. 2. 
 Treatise pp. 198. 
 
 (2.) An Answer to Dr Tullies 
 angry Letter. By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as before] pp. 94 — errata 
 pp. 2. Without a separate title 
 but headed. 
 
 (3.) 'May 26, 1652.' 'An ac- 
 count of my Consideration of the 
 friendly, modest, learned Animad- 
 versions of Mr Chr. Cartwright of 
 York, on my Aphorisms' pp. 
 294. Postscript pp. 8. 
 
 (4. ) The Substance of Mr Cart- 
 wright's Exceptions considered. 
 By Rich. Baxter. London [as 
 before] — pp. 3-69. Postscript on 
 Mr Danvers pp. 7o~79- 
 
 LXXXV. Rich. Baxter's Re- 
 view of the State of Christians 
 Infants. Whether they should be 
 entered in the Covenant with God 
 by Baptism and be visible mem- 
 bers of His Church and have any 
 Covenant-right to pardon and sal- 
 vation? or Whether Christ, the 
 Saviour of the World, hath shut 
 all mankind out of His visible 
 Kingdom and covenant-rights and 
 hopes till they come to age ? And 
 whether he did so from the be- 
 ginning of the world or after his 
 incarnation? Occasioned by the 
 importunity of Mr E. Hutchinson 
 (and of Mr Danvers and Mr 
 Tombes) who called him to this 
 Review in order to his Retracta- 
 tion. An unpartial reading is 
 humbly requested of those dis- 
 senters who would not be found 
 despisers of holy truth nor such as 
 judge before they hear. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simons at the 
 Princes Arms in Pauls Church- 
 yard. 1676. [cr. 8°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page— To the Reader 
 pp. 6. Treatise pp. 64. 
 
 VSce ' Reliquia ' [Part III. p. 187.] 
 
 LXXXVI. The Judgment of 
 Nonconformists of the Interest of 
 Reason in matters of Religion, in 
 which it is proved against Make- 
 bates that both Conformists and 
 Nonconformists and all parties if 
 true Protestants are herein really 
 agreed though unskilful speakers 
 diifer in words. London, Printed 
 in the year 1676. [4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page and pp. 21. 
 
 **** On page 21 is the following 'We 
 whose names are subscribed, not undertak- 
 ing for any individual person who is other- 
 minded, do ourselves believe the real 
 concord of Protestants as it is here ex- 
 pressed. Thomas Manton, William 
 Bates, Rich. Baxter, Thos. Case, Mat. 
 Sylvester, Edward Lawrence, etc., etc' 
 In the Williams Library copy there are 
 added in MS. ' Gabriel Sangor, Heny. 
 Hurst, Roger Morice.' 
 
 LXXXVIL The Judgment of 
 Nonconformists of Things Indiffe- 
 rent commanded by Authority, as 
 far as the Subscribers are acquaint- 
 ed with it. Written to save the 
 ignorant from the temptations of 
 DiaboHsm (described 2 Tim. 3. 3 
 and I John 3. 10, 12, 15. John 
 8. 44). Printed in the year 1676. 
 
 [4°.] ^ . 
 
 Collation : Title-page— Treatise pp. 
 21-41. ("continued pagination from No. 
 LXXXV). 
 
 LXXXVIIL The Judgment of 
 Nonconformists of Things sinful 
 by Accident and of Scandal, pub- 
 lished to save Men's Souls from 
 the Guilt of believing those Men 
 who tell them that the Noncon- 
 formists asserted that Whatever 
 may be the occasion of sin to any 
 must be taken away or that Nothing 
 may be imposed which Men may 
 take Scandal at or by Accident 
 turn to sin. And to help those to 
 Repentance who have polluted 
 their Souls with Falshood and 
 Uncharitableness by relieving them 
 and seconding their Reports. 
 Printed in the Year 1676. [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page— Treatise pp. 
 43-79 (continued pagination from No. 
 LXXXVIL) 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 39 
 
 LXXXIX. What Meer Non- 
 conformity is not: the Profession 
 of Several whom these Times have 
 made and called Nonconformists. 
 Printed in the Year 1676. [4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Treatise pp. 
 81-123. (continued pagination from 
 LXXXVill). 
 
 XC. Roman Tradition Examin- 
 ed as it is urged as Infallible 
 against all men's senses, reason, 
 the Holy Scripture, the tradition 
 and present judgment of the far 
 greatest part of the Universal 
 Church in the point of Transub- 
 stantiation, in answer to a book 
 called a Rational Discourse of 
 Transubstantiation. Printed in the 
 year 1676 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Treatise pp. 
 73 — a ' Postcript' being on pp. 72, 73. 
 
 XCI. A Supplement to the 
 Morning-Exercise at Cripplegate : 
 or several more Cases of Conscience 
 practically resolved by sundry mi- 
 nisters. London, Printed for 
 Thomas Cockerill at the sign of 
 the Atlas in Cornhil near the 
 Royal Exchange. 1676 [4°]. 
 
 Sermon XXII. 'What light 
 must shine in our souls ' [Matthew 
 V. 16] pp. 545-578. 
 
 *♦* In the British Museum copy some 
 one has written (in pencil) ' Baxter : 
 judicious, nervous, spiritual and remark- 
 ably evangelical tho' often charged to 
 the contrary : a manly eloquence.' 
 
 XCII. Reasons for Ministers 
 using the greatest plainness and 
 seriousness possible in all their ap- 
 plications to their people. 1676. 
 [8°]. 
 
 *^* I have not met with this. I sus- 
 pect it was a ' Preface ' or ' Epistle ' to 
 some book of another's. It is given by 
 Orme in ' Practical Works,' Vol. XV. 
 
 XCIII. Naked Popery ; or 
 the Naked Falsehood of a book 
 called the Catholick Naked Truth 
 or the Puritan Convert to Apos- 
 tolical Christianity : written by W. 
 
 H. Opening their fundamental 
 errour of Unwritten Tradition and 
 their unjust descriptions of the 
 Puritan, the Prelatical Protestant 
 and the Papist, and their differ- 
 ences ; and better acquainting the 
 ignorant of the true difference, 
 especially what a Puritan and 
 what a Papist is. By Richard 
 Baxter, a Professor of meer Apos- 
 tolical Christianity. London, Print- 
 ed for N. Simmons at the Princes 
 Arms in S. Paul's Church-yard. 
 1677 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Treatise pp. 
 3-196 — Contents pp. 7 — Errata on reverse 
 of last page. 
 
 *** My copy has on the title-page the 
 autograph of ' B. Robinson ' author of a 
 treatise on * Liturgies.' 
 
 XCIV. The Judgment of Non- 
 conformists about the Difference 
 between Grace and Morality. Print- 
 ed in the year 1678 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Errata on re- 
 verse — Treatise pp. 18. 
 
 *^* This and the others onward, are 
 stated in the * Reliquise ' [Part III. p. 
 185] to have been 'suppressed' which 
 explains their great rarity. 
 
 XCV. The Death of Ministers 
 improved or an Exhortation to the 
 inhabitants of Horsley in Gloces- 
 ter-shire, and others, on the much 
 lamented death of that reverend 
 and faithful minister of the gospel 
 Mr Henry Stubbs. By Tho. Vin- 
 cent, John Turner, Rob. Perrot, 
 M. Pemberton. To which is added 
 a Sermon upon that occasion by 
 Richard Baxter. Printed in the 
 year 1678 [18°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — the 'Address' 
 as supra pp. 48 — Then a separate title — 
 ' A Sermon preached at the Funeral of 
 that holy, peaceful and fruitful minister 
 of Christ Mr Henry Stubbs; about fifty 
 years a successful Preacher at Bristol, 
 Wells, Chew, Dursley, London, and di- 
 vers other places. By his unworthy fel- 
 low-servant hasting after him, Richard 
 Baxter. Printed in the year 1678.' 
 
 Title-page and Sermon pp. 54 — [Text 
 Acts XX. 24]. 
 
40 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 XCVI. Which is the True 
 Church? The whole Christian 
 World as headed only by Christ 
 (of which the Reformed are the 
 soundest part) or the Pope of Rome 
 and his subjects as such ? In three 
 parts. I. The Papists Confusion 
 in explaining the terms of the 
 Questions : not able to bear the 
 light. II." A Defence of a Dispu- 
 tation concerning the continued 
 visibility of the Church of which 
 the Protestants are Members. III. 
 A Defence of the several Addi- 
 tional proofs of the said visibility. 
 By Richard Baxter. Written espe- 
 cially to instruct the younger un- 
 experienced scholars how to deal 
 with these deceivers in these dan- 
 gerous times. London, Printed, 
 and are to be sold by Richard 
 Janeway in Butcher-hall lane. 1679 
 [4°]- 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Preface pp. 4 
 — Treatise pp. t68 — [At page 100 the 
 pagination passes to 121 by misprint]. 
 
 XCVII. The Nonconformist's 
 Plea for Peace : or an Account of 
 their Judgment in certain things in 
 which they are mi^nderstood : 
 written to reconcile and pacify 
 such as by mistaking them hinder 
 love and concord. By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed for Benj. 
 Alsop at the Angel and Bible over 
 aeainst the Stocks-Market. 1679 
 
 m- 
 
 Collation : Title-page — ' To the reve- 
 rend Conforming Clergy ' pp, lo — Con- 
 tents, etc. pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 340 — 
 Errata i page — books pubd. by Alsop i 
 page. 
 
 V See * Reliquiae' [Part III. 180- 
 187.] 
 
 XCVIII. A True Believer's 
 Choice and Pleasure. Instanced in 
 the Exemplary Life of Mrs Mary 
 Coxe, the late wife of Doctor 
 Thomas Coxe. Preached for her 
 Funeral by Richard Baxter, Lon- 
 
 don, Printed by R. E. in the year 
 1680. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Dedication to 
 Dr Thomas Coxe pp. 3 — On reverse, 
 Errata — Sermon pp. 65 — [Text Psalm 
 cxix. III.] 
 
 XCIX. The True and only way 
 of Concord of all the Christian 
 Churches ; the desirableness of it 
 and the detection of false dividing 
 terms. Opened by Richard Bax- 
 ter. London, Printed for John 
 Hancock at the Three Bibles in 
 Pope's-head-alley over against the 
 Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1680 
 [cr. 8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Texts etc. on 
 reverse — the Preface * To the honourable 
 and reverend Dr George Morley, late 
 Lord Bishop of Worcester and now of 
 Winchester ; and Dr Peter Gunning, 
 Lord Bishop of Ely,' pp. 11 — a Premo- 
 nition pp. 7 — Contents pp. 7 — Errata i 
 page— Pt. L pp. 133— Pt. IL pp. 135-327 
 — Pt. in. T44 [Text prefixed to Pt. I. 
 Ephesians iv. 3.] 
 
 C. The Defence of the Noncon- 
 formists Plea for Peace or an Ac- 
 count of the Matter of their Non- 
 conformity against Mr J. Cheney's 
 answer called The Conforming 
 Nonconformist and The Noncon- 
 forming Conformist to which is 
 added the second Part in answer 
 to Mr Cheney's Five Undertak- 
 ings. By Richard Baxter. Lon- 
 don, Printed for Benjamin Alsop 
 at the Angel over against the 
 Stocks-Market. 1680 [8°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 6 — Contents pp. 6 — Treatise pp. 176. 
 
 CI. Fasciculus Literarum or 
 Letters on Several Occasions. 
 
 I. Betwixt Mr Baxter, and 
 the Author of llic Pemva- 
 sive to Con/or niity. Where- 
 in many things are dis- 
 cussed which are repeated 
 in Mr Baxter's late Plea for 
 the Nonconformists. 
 
 II , A Letter to an Oxford 
 
W7'itings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 41 
 
 Friend concerning the In- 
 dulgence i67|-. 
 
 III. A Letter from a Minister 
 in the Country to a Minis- 
 ter in London. 
 
 IV. An Epistle written in Latin 
 to the Triers before the 
 King's most happy Restau- 
 ration. By John Hinckley 
 D.D. Rector of Northfeild 
 in Worcestershire. Lon- 
 don, Printed for Thomas 
 Basset at the George near 
 St Dunstans Church in 
 Fleet-street, mdclxxx. 
 [8vo]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Preface pp. 14 
 [unpaged] and pp. 344. The Baxter por- 
 tion pp. 200. 
 
 *** See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 90] 
 for a short notice of Hinckley and his 
 tactics. 
 
 CII. The Second Part of the 
 Nonconformists Plea for Peace. 
 Being an account of their Prin- 
 ciples about Civil and Ecclesiasti- 
 cal Authority and Obedience (as 
 far as the Author knoweth it) and 
 about Things Indifferent, and evil 
 by Accident or Scandal : and what 
 their Nonconformity is not : and 
 whether the Ministers encourage 
 vSects and Schism : With their 
 judgements and earnest desires of 
 the Churches Peace and Concord, 
 and the true and necessary means. 
 Mostly written many years past, 
 and now published to save our 
 Lives and the Kingdom's Peace, 
 from the false and bloody Plotters, 
 who would first persuade the King 
 and people that the Protestants, 
 and particularly the Nonconform- 
 ists are Presbyterians and Fana- 
 ticks ; and next that it was such 
 Presbyterians that killed his Father; 
 and next that our Principles are 
 rebellious ; and next that we are 
 plotting a rebellion and his death ; 
 and lastly that this is the genius of 
 the Parliament ; and therefore that 
 they and we must be used as ene- 
 
 mies to the King. By Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed for John Han- 
 cock at the three Bibles near the 
 Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1 680. 
 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 22 [Signed R. e., no doubt a misprint 
 for R. B.] — The Contents, etc. 'of this 
 Extorted and Distorted Treatise ' pp. 4 
 — Treatise pp. 204. 
 
 V" No. LXXXVII. to LXXXIX. 
 are often found along with this agreeably 
 to ' Reliquiae ' [Part III. p. 188]. Orme 
 enumerates them separately and as they 
 were separately issued (though ' sup- 
 pressed ' afterwards) it seems right in this 
 case to give each distinctly. 
 
 cm. A Moral Prognostication. 
 I. What shall befall the Churches 
 on earth till that Concord, by the 
 Restitution of their primitive purity, 
 sim.plicity and charity. II. How 
 that restitution is like to be made 
 (if ever) and what shall befall them 
 thenceforth unto the end in that 
 golden age of love. Written by 
 Richard Baxter. When by the 
 King's Commission we (in vain) 
 treated for Concord. 1661. And 
 now published not to instruct the 
 proud that scorn to learn ; nor to 
 make them wise who will not be. 
 made wise : but to instruct the 
 sons of love and peace in their 
 duties and expectations. And to 
 tell Posterity that the things which 
 befall them were .foretold, and that 
 the evil might have been pre- 
 vented, and blessed peace on earth 
 attained if men had been but will- 
 ing, and had not shut their eyes 
 and hardened their hearts against 
 the beams oflight and love. London, 
 Printed for Thomas Simmons at 
 the Princes Arms in Ludgate- 
 street, 1680 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 67. 
 
 *4(.* I have another edition ' London, 
 Printed in the year 1680 and published 
 in the year 1690 and are to be sold by 
 Tho, Parkhurst at the Bible and three 
 crowns in Cheapside near Mercer's 
 
42 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 Chapel.' See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 
 
 i88J. 
 
 CIV. Church-History of the 
 Government of Bishops and their 
 Councils abbreviated. Including 
 the chief part of the government of 
 Christian princes and popes, and a 
 true account of the most troubling 
 controversies and heresies till the 
 Reformation. Written for the use 
 especially of them. I. Who are 
 ignorant or misinformed of the 
 state of the Antient Churches. 
 II. Who cannot read many and 
 great volumes. III. Who think 
 that the universal Church must 
 have one visible soveraign, per- 
 sonal or collective, Pope or Gene- 
 ral Councils. IV. Who would 
 know whether Patriarchs, Dio- 
 cesans, and their Councils, have 
 been or must be, the cure of here- 
 sies and schismes. V. Who would 
 know the truth about the great 
 heresies which have divided the 
 Christian world, especially the 
 Donatists, Novatians, Arrians, 
 Macedonians, Nestorians, Euty- 
 chians, Monothelites, etc. By 
 Richard Baxter, a hater of false 
 History. London : Printed by B. 
 Grifhn, and are to be sold by 
 Thomas Simmons at the Princes 
 Arms in Ludgate-street, and John 
 Kidgell at the Atlas in Cornhil 
 near the Royal Exchange. 1680. 
 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 6 — What history is credible and what 
 not pp. 10 : at end of paj^e 10 ' a notice 
 concerning Mr Henry Dodwell ' — Con- 
 tents pp. 25 — Books pubd. by Simmons 
 I page — Treatise pp. 488. 
 
 CV. Richard Baxter's Answer 
 to Dr Edward Stillingfleet's Charge 
 of Separation : containing — 
 
 I. Some Queries necessary for 
 the understanding of his Accusa- 
 tion. 
 
 II. A Reply to his Letter which 
 denyeth a Solution. 
 
 III. An Answer to his Printed 
 Sermon. 
 
 Humbly tendred I. To Him- 
 self ; II. To the Right Honour- 
 able the Lord Mayor and the 
 Court of Aldermen ; HI. To the 
 Readers of his Accusation : the 
 Forum where we are accused. 
 
 London, Printed for Nevil Sim- 
 mons at the Three Cocks at the 
 West-end of St Paul's, and Thomas 
 Simmons at the Prince's Arms in 
 Ludgate-street. 1680. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 5 — and pp. 8-100 — Appendix [un- 
 paged] pp. 4. 
 
 *4(.* The Appendix is frequently awant- 
 ing from ' Finis' being printed at close of 
 page 100 — a not uncommon thing with 
 Baxter — for he has overflowing ' Post- 
 scripts ' and 'Notes,' etc. etc. See 
 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 187]. 
 
 CVI. A Treatise of Episcopacy, 
 confuting by Scripture, Reason 
 and the Churches Testimony, that 
 sort of Diocesan Churches, Prelacy 
 and Government, which casteth out 
 the primitive Church-species, Epis- 
 copacy, ministry and discipline, 
 and confoundeth the Christian 
 world by corruption, usurpation, 
 schismes and persecution. Medi- 
 tated 1640 when the etc. oath 
 was imposed. Written 167 1 and 
 cast by: pubhshed 1680 by the 
 call of Mr H. Dodwel, and the 
 importunity of our superiors, who 
 demand the Reasons of our Non- 
 conformity. The designe of this 
 book is not to weaken the Church 
 of England, its government, riches, 
 honour or unity : but to strengthen 
 and secure it. i. By the concord 
 of all true Protestants who can 
 never unite in the present imposi- 
 tions. 2. And by the necessary 
 reformation of Parish- Churches, 
 and those abuses which else will 
 in all ages keep up a succession of 
 Nonconformists. As an account 
 why we dare not covenant by oath 
 or subscription never to endeavour 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 43 
 
 any (amending) alteration of the 
 Church government (by lawful 
 meanes, as subjects) nor make our- 
 selves the justifying vouchers for 
 all the unknown persons in the 
 kingdom who vowed and swore it, 
 that none of them are obliged to 
 such (lawful) endeavours by their 
 vow. By Richard Baxter, a Catho- 
 lick Christian, for love, concord 
 and peace of all true Christians, 
 and obedience to all laM^ful com- 
 mands of rulers ; but made, called 
 and used as, a Nonconformist. 
 London, Printed for Nevil Sim- 
 mons at the three Cocks at the 
 West-end of St Pauls and Thomas 
 Simmons at the Prince's Armes in 
 Ludgate-street. 1681 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Books of Bax- 
 ter's pp. 2 — the history of the production 
 of this treatise, etc. pp. 10 — Quotations 
 I page — Contents pp. 3 — Treatise — First 
 Part pp. 170 — Second Part pp. 233 — Post- 
 script pp. 3. 
 
 \* The Williams Library copy has 
 manuscript [holograph] additions by 
 Baxter. See ' P.eliquise ' [Part III. p. 
 188]. 
 
 CVII. An Apology for the Non- 
 conformists Ministry : containing 
 
 I. The reasons of their preaching 
 
 II. An answer to the accusations 
 urged as reasons, for the silencing 
 of about 2000, by Bishop Morley, 
 Bishop Guning's chaplain, Dr Say- 
 well, Mr Durel, the nameless Ec- 
 clesiastical Politician and Debate- 
 maker the Counterminer, H. 
 Fowlis, DrGood, and many others. 
 
 III. Reasons proving it the duty 
 and interest of the Bishops and 
 Conformists to endeavour ear- 
 nestly their Restoration. With a 
 Postscript upon oral debates with 
 Mr H. Dodwell against his reasons 
 for their silence. And a Scheme 
 of Interests. Written in 1668 
 and 1669 for the most of it, and 
 now published as an addition to 
 the Defence against Dr Stillingfleet 
 and as an account to the Silencers 
 of the Reasons of our Practice. 
 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at 
 the Bible and Three Crowns in 
 Cheapside near Mercers Chappel. 
 
 1681. [4°.] 
 
 Collation .-Title-page — Epistle Dedica- 
 tory to certain of the * peaceful ' Bishops 
 pp. 6. Contents pp. 3. Treatise pp. 252. 
 
 %* * Reliquia' [Part III. p. 188.] 
 
 CVIII. Faithful Souls shall be 
 with Christ : the certainty proved 
 and their Christianity described 
 and exemplified in the truly Chris- 
 tian life and death of that excellent, 
 amiable saint Henry Ashurst Esq. 
 citizen of London. Briefly and 
 truly published for the conviction 
 of hypocrites and the malignant, 
 the strengthening of believers and 
 the imitation of all, especially 
 the masters of families in London. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simmons at the 
 Three Golden Cocks at the west 
 end of St Paul's Church, 1681. 
 [4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to widow and son pp. 6. Sermon 
 [John xii. 26] pp. 60, 
 
 CIX. Poetical Fragments : 
 Heart-Imployment with God and 
 itself. The concordant discord of 
 a broken-healed heart. Sorrow- 
 ing-rejoycing, fearing-hoping, dy- 
 ing-living. Written partly for 
 himself and partly for near friends 
 in sickness and other deep afflic- 
 tion. By Richard Baxter. Pub- 
 lished for the use of the afflicted. 
 London, Printed by T. Snowden 
 for B. Simmons at the 3 Golden 
 Cocks at the west end of St Pauls. 
 1681. [18°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 12 signed 'at the door of eternity' 
 Aug. 7, 168 T. Poems pp. 135. The 
 three little volumes of Verse, by B. were 
 collected together by the late celebrated 
 Publisher Mr Pickering as the ' Poetical 
 Fragments ' of Baxter (i vol. 12°) a very 
 pretty and now scarce book. 
 
 ex. A Search for the English 
 Schismatick : By the Case and 
 
44 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 Characters I. Of the Diocesan 
 Canoneers II. Of the Present 
 Meer Nonconformists. Not as an 
 Accusation of the former but a 
 Necessary Defence of the later, so 
 far as they are wrongfully Accused 
 and Persecuted by them. By 
 Richard Baxter, One of the Ac- 
 cused. 
 
 London : Printed for Nevill 
 Simmons at the Sign of the Three 
 Golden Cocks at the West-end of 
 St Pauls Church-yard. i68i. 
 [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page. Postscript pp. 
 2. Treatise pp. 44. 
 
 V ' Reliquiae ' [Part III. pp. 188, 189]. 
 
 CXI. A Third Defence of the 
 Cause of Peace, proving i. The 
 need of our Concord 2. The Im- 
 possibility of it on the terms of the 
 present impositions. Against the 
 Accusations and Storms of viz. Mr 
 John Hinckley, A Nameless Im- 
 pleader, A Nameless Reflector or 
 Speculum etc. Mr John Cheney's 
 Second Accusation, Mr Roger 
 L' Strange Justice etc. the Dia- 
 logue between the Pope and a 
 Fanatic, J. Varney's Phanatic 
 Prophesie. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed for Jacob Samp- 
 son, next to the Wonder Tavern 
 in Ludgate-Street. 1681. [8°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 7. — books pp. 2. Answer to Hinck- 
 leyipp. 128 — to Cheney pp. 76. Impleader 
 pp. 77-146. Reflector pp. 147-149 — 
 Varney and L'Strange pp. 150. 
 
 CXII. A Second true Defence 
 of the meer Nonconformists against 
 the untrue Accusations, Reason- 
 ings and History of Dr Edward 
 Stillingfleet, dean of St Pauls 
 etc. Clearly proving that it is 
 (not sin but) duty. I. Not wil- 
 fully to commit the many sins of 
 Conformity. 2. Not sacrilegiously 
 to forsake the preaching of the 
 Gospel. 3. Not to cease publick 
 worshipping of God. 4. To use 
 needful pastoral helps for salva- 
 
 tion, though men forbid it and call 
 it Schism. Written by Richard 
 Baxter, not to accuse others but 
 to defend God's truth, and the 
 true way of peace after near 20 
 years loud accusations of the si- 
 lencing, prosecuting clergy and 
 their sins. With some Notes on 
 Mr Joseph Glanvile's zealous and 
 impartial Protestant and Dr L. 
 Moulins Character. London, 
 Printed for Nevil Simons at the 
 sign of the Three Golden Cocks 
 at the West-end of St Pauls. 
 1681 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — an historical 
 Preface pp. 10 — a premised explication 
 of the equivocal word * church ' pp. 4 — 
 advertisement at bottom of page*-Con- 
 tents pp. 4 — Treatise pp. 195 — books 
 pubd. by Simmons. 
 
 *^* Able and acute as was Stilling- 
 fleet it only needeth to read this and No. 
 CV. to be convinced of the larger and 
 finer intellect of Baxter, as well as supe- 
 rior learning within the debated ground. 
 
 CXIII. A Breviate of the Life 
 of Margaret, the Daughter of 
 Francis Charlton of Apply in 
 Shropshire Esq. ; and Wife of 
 Richard Baxter. For the use of 
 all, but especially of their Kindred. 
 There is also Published the Cha- 
 racter of her Mother, truly de- 
 scribed in her Published Funeral 
 Sermon. Reprinted at her Daugh- 
 ter's Request, called ' The Last 
 Work of a Believer, His passing- 
 prayer, recommending his depart- 
 ing Spirit to Christ, to be received 
 by him. 
 
 London, Printed for B. Sim- 
 mons at the Three Golden Cocks 
 at the West-end of St Paul's. 
 1681. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 8 — ' Breviate ' pp. 107. 
 
 *** Cf, John Howe's great Sermon, 
 with loving and reverent * Epistle ' to 
 Baxter, preached on the death of Mrs B. 
 The * Breviate ' is very rare. 
 
 CXIV. An Answer to Mr Dod- 
 well and Dr Sherlocke ; confuting 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter, 
 
 45 
 
 an Universal humane Church-su- 
 premacy, aristocratical and monar- 
 chical ; as Church-tyranny and 
 Popery : and defending Dr Isaac 
 Barrow's treatise against it. By 
 Richard Baxter, Preparatory to a 
 fuller Treatise against such an 
 Universal Soveraignty, as contrary 
 to reason, Christianity, the Pro- 
 testant profession and the Church 
 of England : though the corrupters 
 usurp that title. London : Printed 
 for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible 
 and Three Crowns at the lower 
 end of Cheapside near Mercer's 
 Chapel. 1682 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page— To the Reader 
 pp. 10 — Contents pp. 3 — Letters between 
 B. and Dodwell pp. 8— Treatise pp. 151 
 —Then separate title. * An Account of 
 my Dissent from Dr Sherlocke, his doc- 
 tnne, accusations and argumentation. 
 Especially about the essence of the uni- 
 versal, national and single Church, and 
 the nature of Schism and the terms of 
 Christian Concord. As also of my dis- 
 sent from the French, from Bishop Gun- 
 ning, and his chaplain Dr Saywell, Mr 
 Thorndike,* Bishop Bramhall, Bishop 
 Sparrow, Mr Dodwell, etc., on the same 
 subject. By Richard Baxter, not as 
 their Accuser, but a Defender of himself 
 and the Protestants against other mens 
 accusations who call for the execution of 
 the laws against us. London, Printed 
 for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and 
 Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mer- 
 cers Chappel. 1681 — pp. 155-230 — books 
 pp. 2. 
 
 %* See * Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 189.] 
 
 CXV. Methodus Theologi^ 
 Christianae. i. Naturae rerum. 
 2. Sacra Scripturse. 3. Praxi, 
 congrua, conformis adaptata. Ple- 
 rumque (corrigenda tamen et perfi- 
 cienda). Non i. Ignavis, festi- 
 nantibus, delassatis. 2. Stolidis, 
 indocilibus. sectariis (ex homine 
 etfucojudicantibus). 3. Superbis, 
 mundanis, maliguis : Ergo, Non 
 plurimis : Sed Juventutis Acade- 
 micae et Pastorum juniorum parti. 
 
 1. Studiosae, sedulae, indefessae. 
 
 2. Ingeniosae, docili, veritatem et 
 ordinem sitienti. 3. Humih, can- 
 
 didae, Deo devotae : Quippe ad 
 I. Veritatis indagationem, custo- 
 diam, propagationem. 2. Sancti- 
 tatis cultum incrementum laudem, 
 3. Ecclesiae salutem, pacem, de- 
 cus. Supra omnes natae, disposita 
 consecratae. Dicata par Richardum 
 Baxterum, Philotheologum. 
 
 Londini, Typis M. White et 
 T. Snowden et prostant venales 
 apud Nevil Simmons ad insigne 
 trium gallorum in vico Ludgate 
 prope Templium Paulinum. 168 1 
 [folio]. 
 
 Collation : Imprimatur, etc. on fly- 
 leaf — engraved title-page as ante, — 
 Prefatio pp. 8 — Index pp. 12 — Post- 
 scriptum pp. 2 — large circular engraving 
 shewing the whole details — Treatise : 
 Pars L pp. 380 — Pars IL pp. 381-450 — 
 Pars III. pp. 369 — Pars IV. pp. 371-439. 
 
 *** ' This book cost him the most 
 pains by far of any of his works. He 
 was a great many years about it. It 
 cost him one way or other about ;^5oo 
 [;^2ooo fully now] the printing : for he 
 was forced to print it at his own charge. 
 And after all 'tis generally esteemed so 
 abstruse and scholastical that few have 
 been willing to be at the necessary pains 
 to understand it. But such as will ex- 
 cuse the Latin of it, will find a more 
 than ordinary accuracy [of thought] in 
 it. Calamy * Account ' Vol. I. p. 417. 
 There can be no doubt that there are 
 'slips' in the Latinity of this ' Me- 
 thodus ' but it is an extraordinary book : 
 and perhaps evidences more than any 
 other the broadness of Baxter's intellect 
 and the excursiveness of his speculation. 
 There are too bits of terse, apothegmatic 
 Latin worthy of Hobbes' renderings of 
 Bacon : and there are separate ' Thoughts' 
 that well translated would make a com- 
 panion volume to Fuller's wise and 
 quaint * Thoughts :' without their sparkle 
 but of perhaps a truer spirituality. See 
 'Reliquiae' [Part IIL pp. 69, 70] for a 
 curious narrative of the preparation of 
 this treatise. 
 
 CXVI. The Ready Way of 
 comfuting Mr Baxter : a Speci- 
 men of the present mode of Con- 
 troversie in England. On last 
 page ' London, Printed for R. 
 Janewayin Queen's- Head- Alley in 
 Paternoster-row, 1682 ' [4°] — pp. 
 8. No title-page save al?ove. 
 
46 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 CXyil. The True History of 
 Councils Enlarged and Defended, 
 against the Deceits of a pretended 
 Vindication of the Primitive 
 Church, but indeed of the Tym- 
 panite and Tyranny of some 
 Prelates many hundred years after 
 Christ. With a Detection of the 
 false History of Edward, Lord 
 Bishop of Corke and Rosse in 
 Ireland. And a Specimen of the 
 way by which this Generation 
 confuteth their Adversaries, in 
 several instances. And a Preface 
 abbreviating much of Ludolphus's 
 History of Habassia. Written to 
 shew their dangerous Errour, who 
 think that a general Council or 
 Colledge of Bishops, is a supream 
 Govemour of all the Christian 
 World, with power of Universal 
 Legislation, Judgment and Execu- 
 tion, and that Christ's Laws with- 
 out their Universal Laws, are not 
 sufficient for the Churches Unity 
 and Concord. By Richard Baxter, 
 a Lover of Truth, Love, and Peace, 
 and a Hater of Lying, Malignity, 
 and Persecution. To which is 
 added by another Hand, a Defence 
 of a Book, Entituled No Evidence 
 for Diocesan Churches. Wherein 
 what is further produced out of 
 Scripture and ancient Authors, for 
 Diocesan Churches, is described. 
 
 London, Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns, at the lower end of Cheap- 
 side, near Mercer's Chappel. 1682. 
 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Tide-page — The Preface 
 pp. 23 — The Contents pp. 3 — Treatise pp. 
 240 — Defence of * No Evidence,' etc. — 
 Title-page and Errata on reverse — 
 Preface pp. 6 and pp. 113 — Postscript 
 pp.8. 
 
 V * Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 189]. 
 
 CXVIH. A Sermon preached at 
 the Funeral of that faithful minister 
 of Christ Mr John Corbet. With 
 his true and exemplary Character. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 
 
 Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at 
 the Bible and three Crowns at 
 the lower end of Cheapside. 1682. 
 [sm. 4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Sermon [from 
 2 Corinthians xii. 1-9] pp. 36, and i page 
 giving list of C.'s writings. 
 
 CXIX. The Last Work of a 
 Believer. His passing-Prayer, re- 
 commending his departing spirit to 
 Christ to be received by him. 
 
 Prepared for the Funerals of 
 Mary, the Widow first of Francis 
 Charlton, Esq., and after of 
 Thomas Hanmer, Esq. : and 
 partly preached at St Mary Mag- 
 dalens Church in Milk-street, 
 London. And now, at the desire 
 of her daughter, before her death, 
 reprinted. By Richard Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed by B. Griffin 
 for B. Simmons at the three 
 Golden Cocks, at the West-end of 
 St Pauls. 1682. [4°.] 
 
 Collation: Tide-page— The Contents 
 pp. 2 — To the Reader pp. 12 — Sermon 
 pp. 79- [Text Acts vii. 29]. 
 
 ^*^ * Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 120]. 
 
 CXX. Compassionate Counsel 
 to all Young Men, especially 1. 
 London Apprentices. II. Students 
 of Divinity, Physick and Law. 
 III. The sons of magistrates and 
 rich men. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed by T. S. and are 
 to be . sold by B. Simmons and 
 Jonath. Greenwood at the Three 
 Golden Cocks at the West-end of 
 St Pauls and at the Crown in the 
 Poultry. 1682 [I2°J. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Contents pp. 2 
 — Treatise pp. 192. 
 
 *^* Had an instant and sustained 
 popularity : enormous numbers were 
 gratuitously circulated. Not until * 1691 ' 
 did the Publishers put * second edition * 
 on fhe title-page — which edition contains 
 a pretty full ' catalogue ' of B.'s * books ' 
 published and then unpublished—* Printed 
 by H. Clark for George Conyers next 
 door to the Princes Arms in Little 
 Britain.' I have an edition of *i7o8' 
 which has printed on the title-page the 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 47 
 
 gift of the Author ' — * Printed for J. Liint- 
 ley at the Three Bibles in Portugal- 
 street near Lincolns-Inn- Fields.' See 
 'Reliquiae ' [Part III. p. 190]. 
 
 CXXI. How to do good to 
 Many : or the Publick Good is the 
 Christians Life. Directions and 
 Motives to it. Intended for an 
 auditory of London citizens, and 
 published for them, for want of 
 leave to preach them. By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed for Rob. 
 Gibs at the Ball in Chancery Lane. 
 1682. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — ' To the truly- 
 Christian merchants and other citizens of 
 London ' pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 48. [Text 
 Galatians vi. 10]. 
 
 CXXII. Of the Immortality of 
 Man's Soul and the nature of it 
 and other spirits. Two discourses : 
 One in a Letter to an unknown 
 Doubter : the other in a reply to 
 Dr Henry Moore's [More] Animad- 
 versions on a private Letter to him : 
 which he published in his second 
 edition of Mr Joseph Glauvil's 
 Sadducismus Triumphatus or His- 
 tory of Apparitions. By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed for B. 
 Simons at the Three Golden 
 Cocks at the West -end of St 
 Pauls. 1682. [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 6 — Separate title 'The Nature and 
 Immortality of the Soul proved. In 
 answer to one who professed perplexing 
 doubtfulness. By Richard Baxter. 
 London [as before] — pp. 3-72. Separate 
 title — * Of the Nature of Spirits : especi- 
 ally man's soul. In a placid collation 
 with the learned Dr Henry More, in a 
 Reply to his Answer to a private Letter, 
 etc. [as before] — Letter [by Baxter to 
 More] pp. 10 — Treatise pp. no. 
 
 CXXIII. The Catechizing of 
 Families : a Teacher of House- 
 holders, how to teach their House- 
 holds. Useful also to School- 
 masters and tutors of youth. For 
 those that are past the common 
 small Chatechisms [sic] and would 
 grow to a more rooted Faith and 
 to the fuller understanding of all 
 
 that is commonly needful to a safe, 
 holy, comfortable and profitable 
 life. Written by Richard Baxter, 
 in hope that family and school- 
 diligence may do much to keep up 
 true Religion. London, Printed 
 for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and 
 Three Crowns at the lower end of 
 Cheapside near Mercers Chappel, 
 and B. Simmons at the Three 
 Golden Cocks at the West-end of 
 St Pauls. 1683. [8°]. 
 
 Collation : Portrait 1674 — Title-page 
 — Reasons and use of the book pp. 10 — 
 Contents pp. 3 — Errata and books pubd. 
 I page — Treatise pp. 439 — Books pubd. 
 I page. 
 
 *^* ' Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 191]. 
 
 CXXIV. Additional Notes on 
 the Life and Death of Sir Matthew 
 Hale, the late universally honoured 
 and loved Lord Justice of the 
 King's Bench. Written by Richard 
 Baxter at the request of Edward 
 Stephens Esq. the Publisher of 
 his Contemplations and his familiar 
 friend, and published by the ur- 
 gency of others. London, Printed 
 for Richard Jane way in Queens - 
 head-alley in Patemoster-row. 
 1682. [12°.] 
 
 Collation : Tide-page— To the Reader 
 pp. o — Note I page — Treatise pp. 45. 
 
 CXXV. A Continuation of 
 Morning- Exercise Questions and 
 Cases of Conscience practically 
 resolved by sundry ministers in 
 October 1682. London, Printed 
 by J. A. for John Dunton at the 
 sign of the Black Raven in the 
 Poultry over-against the Stocks- 
 market. 1683 [4°]. Serm. XL 
 ' The Cure of Melancholy and 
 over-much sorrow by Faith and 
 Physick' pp. 263-303. [Text 2 
 Corinthians ii. 7]. 
 
 CXXVI. Obedient Patience in 
 General ; and in XX particular 
 cases : with Helps to obtain and 
 use it ; and impatience repressed : 
 Cross-bearers less to-be pityed than 
 G 
 
48 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 Cross -makers. Written for his 
 own use under the cross, imposed 
 at once by God and man, and pub- 
 lished as now reasonable to many 
 thousands who hold fast faith and 
 conscience. By Richard Baxter. 
 London, Printed for Robert Gios, 
 at the sign of the Ball in Chancery- 
 Lane 1683. [12°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 6. Contents pp. 4. Treatise pp. 288. 
 
 %* Extremely rare and valuable as 
 rare. 
 
 CXXVIL Richard Baxter's 
 
 Farewell Sermon, prepared to 
 have been preached to his hearers 
 at Kidderminster at his departure, 
 but forbidden. London Printed for 
 B. Simmons at the Three Golden 
 Cocks on Ludgate-Hill at the 
 west-end of St Paul's. 1683. 
 [4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the inhabi- 
 tants of K. pp. 2. Sermon [from John 
 xvi. 22] pp. 42. [See LI.] 
 
 CXXVIII. Richard Baxter's 
 Dying Thoughts upon Phil[ippians] 
 i. 23. Written for his own use in 
 the latter times of his corporal 
 pains and weakness. 
 
 London, Printed by Tho. Snow- 
 den, for B. Simmons at the Three 
 golden Cocks, at the West-end 
 of St Pauls. 1683. [cr. 8vo.] 
 
 Collation: Portrait "Aetat 68" with 
 Verses beneath — Title-page. The Pre- 
 face to the Reader pp. 4. The Contents 
 pp. 16. Sentences on Love, Death etc. 
 pp. 2. The Introduction [unpaged] pp. 
 16. Treatise pp. 259. Appendix pp. 
 260-357. Short Meditations on Romans 
 V. 1-5, pp. 358-381. 
 
 CXXIX. Mr Baxter's Judg- 
 ment and Reasons against com- 
 municating with the Parish-As- 
 semblies, as by Law required. 
 Impartially stated and proposed. 
 Printed in the year 1684. 
 
 Collation : To the Reader pp. 6 and 
 pp.31. [See No. CXXXI.] 
 
 CXXX. Catholick Communion 
 Defended against both Extreams : 
 and Unnecessary Division Con- 
 
 futed, by Reasons against both the 
 Active and Passive ways of Sepa- 
 ration : Occasioned by the Racks 
 and Reproaches of one sort, and 
 the Impatience and Censoriousness 
 of the other ; and the Erroneous, 
 tho Confident Writings of Both. 
 And written in Compassion of a 
 Distracted, Self-tearing People, 
 tho with little hope of any gi'eat 
 success. In Five Parts. 
 
 I. The Dangerous Schisma- 
 tick; on the Three Cases 
 about Church- Communion. 
 
 II. Animadversions on part 
 of Mr Raphson's Book. 
 
 III. A Survey of the Unrea- 
 sonable Defender of Dr 
 Stillingfleet, for Separation, 
 pretending to oppose it. 
 
 IV. Reasons of the Author's 
 censured Communion with 
 the Parish Churches. 
 
 V. The Reasons why Dr J. 
 O. 's Twelve Arguments 
 change not his Judgement. 
 By Richard Baxter, a Lover 
 of Love and Peace ; and by 
 defending them, displeasing 
 those that labour to destroy 
 them. 
 
 London : Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside near Mercer's 
 Chappel. 1684. [4°.] 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 3. The Contents pp. 3. A Separate 
 title as follows : ' The Dangerous Schis- 
 matick clearly detected and fully con- 
 futed : for the saving of a distracted Na- 
 tion from that which would destroy 
 Christian love and unity. Occasioned by 
 a Resolver of three Cases about Church- 
 Communion. By Richard Baxter, a 
 catholique Christian who is against con- 
 fining Christian love and communion to 
 any sect how great soever. London [as 
 before]. Treatise pp. 58. Another 
 title — * The Second Part against Schism' 
 being Animadversions on a book famed 
 to be Mr Raphson's. London [as before] 
 — To the Reader i page. Treatise pp. 
 18. Another but no separate title (?) — 
 the*Preface pp. 44. A Survey of the Re- 
 ply to Mr Humphrey and myself called 
 a Vindication etc. of Dr Stillingfleet, pp. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 49 
 
 56. Another but also without separate 
 title ' Unnecessary separating disowned ' 
 in the reasons of the author's censured 
 practice pp. 29. Then a separate title 
 — 'An account of the Reasons why the 
 Twelve Arguments said to be Dr John 
 Owen's change not my judgment about 
 communion with Parish-Churches. By 
 Richard Baxter. London [as before]— 
 the Preface pp. 2. Treatise pp. 46. Post- 
 script and Letter pp. 18 — books pubd. by 
 Parkhurst i page. 
 
 *^* A perfect set, as above described, 
 of this volume is exceedingly rare. See 
 'Reliquiae' [Part IIL pp. 197, 198]. 
 Orme divides above into five distinct 
 works in one place and other two in 
 another. 
 
 CXXXI. Whether Parish Con- 
 gregations be true Christian Chur- 
 ches and the Capable, Consenting 
 Incumbents, be truly their Pastors 
 or Bishops over their Flocks. 
 And so Whether the old Protes- 
 tants, Conformists and Noncon- 
 formists or the Brownists, were 
 in the right herein. And how 
 far our present Case is the same. 
 Written by Richard Baxter as an 
 Explication of some Passages in 
 his former Writings ; especially 
 his Treatise of Episcopacy, mis- 
 understood and misapplied by 
 some ; and answering the strong- 
 est Objections of some of them ; 
 especially a Book called 
 
 Mr Baxter's Judgment and Rea- 
 sons against Communicating with 
 the Parish Assemblies as by Law 
 required. And another called, A 
 Theological Dialogue. 
 
 Or CathoHck Communion once 
 more Defended upon men's nec^- 
 sitating importunity. By Richaird 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed for Thomas 
 Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside, near Mer- 
 cer's Chappel, 1684 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page pp. 2-43 — Post- 
 script I page — Answer to ' Theological 
 Dialogue ' pp. 30— Postscript pp. 31-32— 
 [See No. CXXIX]. Orme makes /^7^r 
 separate works of above. 
 
 CXXXIL Catholick Com- 
 
 munion Doubly Defended : By 
 Dr Owen's Vindicator and Richard 
 Baxter. And the State of that 
 Communion opened and the 
 Questions discussed, whether there 
 be any Displeasure at Sin or Re- 
 pentance for it in Heaven. With 
 a Parallel of the case of using a 
 faulty Translation of Scripture 
 and a faulty Lyturgy. 
 
 London, Printed for Thomas 
 Parkhurst at the Three Bibles and 
 Crown [as before] 1684 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Preliminary 
 * Note ' I page — Contents i page — 
 Treatise pp. 40. 
 
 CXXXIIL The Judgment of 
 the late Lord Chief Justice Sir 
 Matthew Plale, of the nature of 
 True Rehgion, the Causes of its 
 Corruption and the Churches Ca- 
 lamity by mens Additions and 
 Violences : with the desired cure. 
 In three Discourses written by 
 himself at several times. Humbly 
 dedicated to the honourable Judges 
 and learned lawyers who knew 
 and honoured the author, because 
 in their true sentiments of Religion 
 and its depravations, and the cure, 
 the welfare of England under his 
 majesty, as well as their own, is 
 eminently concerned. By the 
 faithful Publisher, Richard Baxter. 
 To which is annexed the Judgment 
 of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Veru- 
 1am St Albans and Chancellour of 
 England : and somewhat of Dr 
 Isaack Barrow's on the same sub- 
 ject. London, Printed for B. 
 Simmons at the three Cocks near 
 the West-end of S. Paul's church, 
 1684 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page-^a Preface pp. 
 5 — Contents pp. 5 — Treatise pp. 64. 
 
 *.>- * The ' Reliquiae ' contains various 
 delightful notices of the great and good 
 Judge.— See Part IIL pp. 47, 175, 181. 
 
 CXXXIV. * Umim Necessari- 
 mn: The One Thing Necessary 
 or Christ's Justification of Mary's 
 Choice and of his Servants wrong- 
 
50 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 fully accused, 1685. Calamy : 
 
 * Account,' Vol. I. p. 420. 
 
 ^4(.* I have not met with this except in 
 the re-prints e.g, in ' Practical Works ' of 
 Baxter, Vol. IV. pp. 759-781 [4 Vols. 
 royal 8vo 1838] : also Orme, as before. 
 
 CXXXV. A Paraphrase on 
 the -New Testament with Notes 
 doctrinal and practical by Plain- 
 ness and Brevity fitted to the use 
 of religious Families in their daily 
 reading of the Scriptures, and of 
 the younger and poorer sort of 
 Scholars and Ministers who want 
 fuller help. With an advertise- 
 ment of difficulties in the Revela- 
 tions. By the late Reverend Mr 
 Richard Baxter. The second 
 edition, corrected. To which is 
 added at the end Mr Baxter's 
 account of his Notes on some par- 
 ticular texts for which he was 
 imprisoned. London, Printed for 
 T. Parkhurst at the Bible and 
 Three Crowns at the lower end of 
 Cheapside : S. Sprint at the Bell 
 in Little Britain : J. Taylor at the 
 Ship, and J. Wyat at the Rose in 
 St Paul's Church Yard. 1695 
 [8vo]. 
 
 Collation : Portrait — Title-page — On 
 reverse 'The Farewell' [poetry] — An 
 Account of the Reason and Use of this 
 Paraphrase pp. 4 — the book not paged, 
 final sheet E e e 2. — At end An Adver- 
 tisement respecting the difficulties in the 
 Revelations signed 'Richard Baxter, 
 London 1684, Nov. 12. Natali Authoris 
 setat suae 70 ' — a Postcrlpt pp. 8 — On last 
 page is ' Mr Baxter's own account of the 
 cause of his imprisonment, left under his 
 own hand to be printed with his Para- 
 phrase.' Macaulay has made Baxter's 
 trial' before Judge Jeffreys — for the 
 
 * Paraphrase,' etc. etc. — immortal. 
 
 CXXXVL R. Baxter's Sence 
 of the Subscribed Articles of 
 Religion. London, Printed for 
 Ben. Cox next door to the Dog- 
 Tavern in Ludgate-street, 1689 
 
 [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Half-title — and pp. 12 — 
 imprint at end. 
 
 CXXXVIL A Treatise of 
 Knowledge and Love compared. 
 
 In two parts L Of falsely pretend- 
 ed knowledge II. Of true saving 
 knowledge and love. I. Against 
 hasty judging and false conceits of 
 knowledge and for necessary sus- 
 pension. II. The excellency of 
 Divine love, and the happiness of 
 being known and loved of God. 
 Written as greatly needful to 
 the safety and peace of every 
 Christian and of the Church. The 
 only certain way to escape false 
 religions, heresies, sects and ma- 
 lignant prejudices, persecutions 
 and sinful wars : all caused by 
 falsely pretended knowledge and 
 hasty judging, by proud ignorant 
 men who know not their ignorance. 
 By Richard Baxter who by God's 
 blessing on long and hard studies 
 hath learned to know that he 
 knoweth but little, and to suspend 
 his judgment of uncertainties, and 
 to take great, necessary, certain 
 things, for the food of his faith and 
 comforts and the measure of his 
 Church - Communion. London, 
 Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the 
 Bible and Three Crowns at the 
 lower end of Cheapside near Mer- 
 cers Chapel. 1689. [sm. 4°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to Sir Henry and Lady Diana 
 Ashurst pp. 8. To the Reader pp. 2. 
 Contents pp. 4. Treatise pp. 342. [Text 
 I Corinthians viii. 2, 3.] books pubd by 
 Parkhurst pp. 2. 
 
 CXXXVIIL Cain and Abel 
 Malignity, that is. Enmity to 
 Serious Godliness, that is, to an 
 holy and heavenly State of Heart 
 and Life : Lamented, Described, 
 Detected and unanswerably proved 
 to be the Devilish Nature and the 
 Militia of the Devil against God, 
 and Christ and the Church and 
 Kingdoms, and the surest sign of 
 a state of damnation. By Richard 
 Baxter or Gildas Salvianus, who 
 earnestly beseecheth all enemies, 
 scorners, opposers and persecutors 
 of serious Obedience to God, not to 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 51 
 
 refuse so small a matter as the 
 reading this short undeniable 
 Evidence, to save their souls, while 
 yet there is hope, from so damnable 
 a state of Sin and Diabolism. 
 Especially Magistrates and Clergy- 
 men, who are sacrilegious and 
 blasphemous, if in the name of 
 Christ's Ministers they turn those 
 Sacred Offices against him. 
 
 London, Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns, at the lower end of Cheap- 
 side, near Mercer's Chapel. 1689. 
 
 [I2°J. 
 
 Colia tion : Portrait — Title-page — To 
 the Reader pp. 1 1 dated thus ' August 
 24. (1689) The fatal Day of Silencing in 
 England in 1662.' Treatise pp. 146. 
 
 See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 196]. 
 
 CXXXIX. The Scripture Gos- 
 pel defended and Christ, Grace 
 and Free Justification Vindicated, 
 against the Libertines, who use 
 the names of Christ, Free Grace 
 and Justification, to subvert the 
 Gospel and Christianity, and that 
 Christ, Grace and Justification, 
 which they in zealous Ignorance 
 think they plead for, to the injury 
 of Christ, the danger of Souls, and 
 the scandalizing of the weak, the 
 insulting of Adversaries and the 
 Dividing of the Churches. Yet 
 charitably differencing the wordy 
 Errours of unskilful Opiniaters, 
 from their Practical Piety. And 
 the mistaken Notions of some Ex- 
 cellent Divines, from the gross 
 Libertine Antinomian Errours. 
 In Two Books. The first, a 
 Breviate of Fifty Controversies 
 about Justification ; written about 
 thirteen years past, and cast by 
 till now, after many provocations, 
 by Press, Pulpit and Backbiting. 
 The second upon the sudden re- 
 viving of Antinomianism, which 
 seemed almost extinct near Thirty 
 four years : And the re-printing of 
 Dr Crisp's Sermons with Additions ; 
 with twelve Reverend Names pre- 
 
 fixed for a decoy, when some of 
 them abhor the Errour of the Book 
 and knew not what was in it, but 
 yielded by surprize only to declare 
 that they believed him that told 
 them that the Additions were a 
 true Copy. By Richard Baxter, 
 an Offender of the Offenders of the 
 Church, by Defending the Truth 
 and Duty which they fight against. 
 
 London, Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at theBible and Three Crowns 
 at the lower end of Cheapside. 
 1690. [cr. 8°.] 
 
 Collatio7i : Title-page — Texts pp. 5 and 
 * the Answer to all this by the Adver- 
 saries ' I page. 
 
 There are the following separate 
 titles — 
 
 (i.) A Breviate of the Doctrine 
 of Justification, dilivered [sic] in 
 many Books, By Richard Baxter : 
 In many Propositions and the So- 
 lution of 50 Controversies about it. 
 Written i. To end such Contro- 
 versies. 2. To confute rash Cen- 
 surers and Errours. 3. To inform 
 the Ignorant. 4. To procure Cor- 
 rection from wiser men, if I mis- 
 take. Occasioned by some mens 
 accusation of me to others, that 
 will not vouchsafe their instruction 
 to myself. And by the Erroneous 
 and dangerous Writings and 
 Preachings of some well-meaning 
 men, such as Mr Troughton etc. 
 who at once mistake and misre- 
 port God's Word and ours, and 
 fight in the dark against Christian 
 Faith and Love. 
 
 London, [as before]. 
 
 Collation: Separate title — The Pre- 
 face pp. 5. The Prologue pp. 8. The 
 Contents pp. 5. Treatise pp. 116. 
 
 (2.) A Defence of Christ and 
 Free Grace : against the Sub- 
 vert ers commonly called Antino- 
 mians or Libertines ; who ignorant- 
 ly blaspheme Christ on Pretence 
 of extolling Him. In a Dialogue 
 between an Orthodox Zealot and 
 a Reconciling Monitor. Written 
 
52 
 
 Aii7iotated List of the 
 
 on the Occasion of the reviving of 
 those Errours and the Reprinting 
 and Reception of Dr Crispes Writ- 
 ings, and the danger of subverting 
 many thousand honest souls by the 
 Notions of Free Grace and Justifica- 
 tion misunderstood and abused by 
 injudicious, unstudyed, prejudiced 
 Preachers. By Richard Baxter. 
 
 London [as before, but after 
 Cheapside, is added 'near Mercers- 
 Chapel. '] 
 
 Collation: Separate title — To the 
 Reader pp. II. Another pp. 3. To the 
 Teachers of Dr Crispe's Doctrine pp. 6. 
 Treatise pp. 71. The Contents i page. 
 Books published by Parkhurst i page. 
 Extremely rare. 
 
 CXL. The EngUsh Noncon- 
 formity as under King Charles II. 
 and King James II. Truly Stated 
 and Argued. By Richard Baxter. 
 Who earnestly beseecheth Rulers 
 and Clergy, not to Divide and De- 
 stroy the Land, and cast their own 
 Souls on the dreadful Guilt and 
 Punishment of National Perjury, 
 Lying, deliberate Covenanting to 
 Sin against God, corrupt his 
 Church and not amend, nor by 
 Laws or blind Malignity, to re- 
 proach faithful Ministers of Christ, 
 and Judge them to Scorn and 
 Beggery, and to Lie and Die in 
 Jails as Rogues, and so to strengthen 
 Profaneness, Popery and Schism, 
 and all for want of Willingness 
 and Patience to Read and Hear 
 their just Defence ; while they can 
 spend much more time in Sin and 
 Vanity. The Author humbly begs 
 that he and his Book of uncon- 
 futable Defence of a Mistaken per- 
 secuted Cause may not be Wit- 
 nesses against them for such great 
 and wilful Sin to their Condemna- 
 tion. The Second Edition, Cor- 
 rected and Amended. 
 
 London, Printed for The. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns, at the lower End of 
 Cheapside. 1690 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page. The Preface 
 pp. 6. An Instance of the Accusations 
 which call for our Defence etc. pp. 4. 
 The Contents pp. 4. Treatise pp. . 304. 
 
 \* On last page a pungent Note of 
 the valiant old man, headed ' England's 
 Slavery.' 
 
 CXLI. An End of Doctrinal 
 Controversies which have lately 
 troubled the Churches, by Recon- 
 ciling Explication, without much 
 Disputing. Written by Richard 
 Baxter. 
 
 London, Printed for John Salus- 
 bury at the Rising Sun in Corn- 
 hil. 1691. [fc. 8°.] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — The Preface 
 pp. 6 — The Contents pp. 4— Books pubd. 
 by Salusbury i page— Treatise, Prelimi- 
 nary chap. I. pp. xxxiv. — and pp. 320. 
 
 \* See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 182]. 
 
 CXLII. The Glorious King- 
 dom of Christ, described and 
 clearly vindicated against the bold 
 asserters of a Future Calling and 
 Reign of the Jews and 1000 years 
 before the Conflagration, and the 
 Asserters of the 1000 years King- 
 dom after the Conflagration. Open- 
 ing the promise of the new heaven 
 and earth and the everlastingness 
 of Christ's Kingdom, against their 
 debasing it, who confine it to 1000 
 years which with the Lord is but 
 as one day. Answering Mr Tho. 
 Beverley who imposed this task by 
 his oft and earnest challenges of 
 all the doctors and pastors, and 
 his censure of dissenters as semi- 
 Sadduces of the Apostasie in his 
 Twelve Principles and Catechisms, 
 etc. By Richard Baxter, whose 
 comfort is only the hope of that 
 kingdom. London, Printed by T. 
 Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst at 
 the Bible and Three Crowns, the 
 lower end of Cheapside. 1691. 
 [4°]- 
 
 Collation : Title-page — to * Mr Increase 
 Mather, the learned and pious rector of 
 the New England CoUedge, now in 
 London ' pp. 2 — Contents pp. 2 — Treatise 
 pp. 73 — books pubd. by Parkhurst pp. 2. 
 
Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 53 
 
 CXLIII. The Certainty of the 
 World of Spirits. Fully evinced 
 by the unquestionable histories of 
 apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, 
 voices, etc. proving the immor- 
 tality of souls, the malice and 
 misery of the devils and the damned, 
 and the blessedness of the justified. 
 Written for the conviction of Sad- 
 duces and Infidels. By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed for T. 
 Parkhurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside and J. Salus- 
 bury at the Rising Sun near the 
 Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1691 
 [cr. 8-]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. 10 — Contents pp. 4 — Treatise pp. 
 246 — Postcript (though ' Finis ' is on 
 page 246) pp. 247-252 — books pubd. by 
 Parkhurst pp. 2 and pp. 2. 
 
 *4(.* This as it is among the quaintest 
 and most curious is also of the rarest of 
 Baxter's writings. 
 
 CXLIV. A Reply to Mr Tho. 
 Beverley's Answer to my Reasons 
 against his Doctrine of the Thou- 
 sand Years Middle Kingdom, and 
 of the Conversion of the Jews. By 
 Richard Baxter, passing to that 
 world where we shall see face to 
 face. P"eb. 20, i6gj. London. 
 Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the 
 Bible and Three Crowns near Mer- 
 cer's Chapel. 1 69 1 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page and pp. 21. 
 *^.* Among the least frequently met 
 with of Baxter's tractates. 
 
 CXLV. Of National Churches : 
 Their Description, Institution, 
 Use, Preservation, Danger, Mala- 
 dies and Cure : Partly applied to 
 England. 
 
 Written by Richard Baxter for 
 promoting peace when the pacify- 
 ing Day shall come, by healing 
 their extremes that are willing of 
 Peace and Healing. And for the 
 fuller Explication of the Treaty for 
 Concord in 1660 and 166 1 and of the 
 Kings gracious Declaration about 
 Ecclesiastical Affairs, for which he 
 
 had publick thanks, by them that 
 afterward rejected it. And for 
 further Explication of his Treatise 
 of Episcopacy and many others 
 written for Peace and rejected. 
 
 London, Printed by T. Snow- 
 den for Thomas Parkhurst at the 
 Bible and Three Crowns, the lower 
 end of Cheapside. 1691. [4°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 3 — The Contents i page — Books 
 printed for Parkhurst pp. 2 — pp. 72. 
 
 CXLVI. Against the Revolt to 
 a Foreign Jurisdiction which would 
 be to England its perjury, Church- 
 ruine and Slavery. In two parts. 
 I. The History of Men's endea- 
 vours to introduce it. II. The 
 Confutation of all Pretences for it. 
 Fully stating the Controversie, and 
 proving that there is no sovereign 
 power of legislation, judgment and 
 execution over the whole Church 
 on earth, aristocratical or monar- 
 chical, but only Christ's : especi- 
 ally against the Aristocratists who 
 place it in a Council or College. 
 By Richard Baxter, an earnest 
 Desirer of the Churches concord, 
 and therefore an enemy to all false 
 terms and dividing engines and 
 self-exalting sects ; and a Defender 
 of Christ's own assigned terms 
 which take in all the true Chris- 
 tians in the world and are injurious 
 or cruel to none. To be offered 
 to the next Convocation, beseech- 
 ing them to own the doctrine of 
 Foreign Communion but to note 
 with renunciation the docrine of 
 Foreign Jurisdiction and to vindi- 
 cate the Reformed Church of Eng- 
 land from the guilt and suspition 
 which the French and innovators 
 injuriously seek to fasten on them. 
 London, Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns at the lower end of Cheap - 
 side near Mercers Chapel. 1691. 
 [8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 
54 
 
 Annotated List of the 
 
 catory to * Tillotson ' then Dean of St 
 Pauls pp. 7 — To the Reader pp. 3 — 
 Contents of the first part pp. 2 — Treatise 
 pp. 366. The Second Part * The Stating 
 of the Controversie and full Confutation 
 of the Pretences for a foreign jurisdiction' 
 — Contents i page — Treatise pp. 369- 
 552. 
 
 CXLVII. Church Concord : 
 containing I. A Disswasive from 
 unnecessary division and separa- 
 tion and the real concord of the 
 moderate Independents with the 
 Presbyterians, instanced in ten 
 seeming differences. II. The 
 terms necessary for Concord 
 among all true Churches and 
 Christians. The first Part written 
 1655. The second Part 1667. 
 And published this 1 69 1. To 
 second a late Agreement of the 
 London Protestant Nonconfor- 
 mists : and a former treatise called 
 The true and only terms of 
 Church-Concord. By Richard 
 Baxter. London, Printed for Tho. 
 Parkhurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside near Mer- 
 cers Chapel, 1 69 1 [40]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — the Preface 
 pp. II — to the United Nonconformists 
 m London pp. 2 — Contents i page — 
 Treatise : Pt. I. pp. 59 — Then a sepa- 
 rate title as follows : * Church Concord 
 about Government and Order. The 
 second Part. The just terms of agree- 
 ment between all sober, serious Chris- 
 tians (by what names soever now dis- 
 tinguished :) in point i. Of Catholick 
 Communion : 2. Of particular Church 
 Communion : 3. Of the Communion of 
 neighbour Churches : 4. And of Churches 
 of several kingdoms : 5. And of their 
 duty as good subjects to their prince. 
 Humbly offered to all the Christian 
 Churches as the true and sufficient 
 remedy of their divisions, if not rejected 
 or neglected : and as a standing witness 
 before God and man against dividing 
 zeal and Church tyranny. By Richard 
 Baxter, a servant of the God of love and 
 peace. London [as before] ' — To the 
 Reader, dated ' Acton Nov. 21, 1688,' 
 I page — Treatise Pt. IL pp. 62. 
 
 CXLVIII. Richard Baxter's 
 Penitent Confession, and his ne- 
 cessary Vindication in answer to a 
 Book, called the Second Part of 
 
 Mischiefs of Separation, written 
 by an unnamed author. With a 
 Preface to Mr Cantianus D. Mi- 
 nimis in answer to his Letter 
 which extorted this Publication. 
 London, Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside near Mer- 
 cers Chapel, 1 69 1 [4°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — a Letter to 
 Mr Baxter pp. 2 — the Preface pp. 6— 
 Treatise pp. 89 — books by Baxter pp. 3. 
 
 CXLIX. The Protestant Reli- 
 gion truly stated : by the late 
 Reverend Mr Richard Baxter. 
 Prepared for the press some time 
 before his death. Whereunto is 
 added some account of the learned 
 authors : By Mr Daniel Williams 
 and Mr Matthew Sylvester. Lon- 
 don : Printed for John Salusbury 
 at the Rising Sun over against the 
 Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1692 
 [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 10 — Contents pp. 3 — Advt. of B's 
 ' Life ' on reverse of last leaf— Treatise 
 pp. 185 — Errata on page 185, before 
 which it is said ' this book was delivered 
 by Mr Baxter himself to the bookseller,' 
 etc. — books pp. 3. 
 
 CL. The Grand Question Re- 
 solved, What we must do to be 
 Saved. Instructions for a Holy 
 Life. By the late Reverend 
 Divine, Mr Richard Baxter. Re- 
 commended to the Bookseller a 
 few days before his Death, to be 
 immediately Printed for the good 
 of Souls. 
 
 London : Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside, 1692 [12°] 
 
 Collation: Title-page — and pp. 46. 
 
 *^* This little treatise has been re- 
 printed by me — It was unknown to 
 Calamy and all the Bibliographers appa- 
 rently. See my Prefatory Note. 
 
 CLI. Mr Richard Baxter's Pa- 
 raphrase on the Psalms of David 
 in metre, with other Hymns. Left 
 fitted for the Press under his own 
 
Writings o''^ Richard Baxter. 
 
 55 
 
 hand. Licensed June 2d 1692. 
 London, Printed for Thomas Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns in Cheapside near Mer- 
 cers Chappel : and Jonathan Ro- 
 binson at the Golden Lion in St 
 Pauls Church-yard. 1692 [12°] 
 
 Collation : Advertisement — Title-page 
 — An Advertisement [' Epistle '] by Syl- 
 vester pp. 4 — the Preface pp. 16 — Para- 
 phrase, etc. pp. pp. 273 — Directions for 
 the use and tuning of the Psalms pp. 
 274-276. 
 
 CLII. The Christian's Con- 
 verse with God or the Insufficiency 
 and Uncertainty of human Friend- 
 ship and the improvement of Soli- 
 tude in Converse with God : with 
 some of the Author's breathings 
 after him. By Richard Baxter. 
 Recommended to the Reader's 
 serious thoughts when at the house 
 of mourning and in retirement. 
 By Mr Matth. Silvester. Lon- 
 don, Printed for John Salusbury 
 at the Rising Sun over against the 
 Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1693 
 [12°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. iii.-vii. — Contents pp. 2 — books pp. 2 
 — Treatise [on John xvi. 52] pp. 167 — 
 books I page. 
 
 CLIII. Universal Redemption 
 of Mankind by the Lord Jesus 
 Christ : Stated and Cleared by the 
 late Learned Mr Richard Baxter. 
 Whereunto is added a short Ac- 
 count of Special Redemption by 
 the same Author. 
 
 London, Printed for John Sa- 
 lusbury at the Rising Sun in Corn- 
 hill. 1694 [8°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — Epistle Dedi- 
 catory to Foleys and JoUifF pp. 2 signed 
 Joseph Read — To the Reader by Mat- 
 thew Sylvester i page — Another by Jo- 
 seph Read pp. 3 — Treatise pp. 502 — 
 Books printed for Salusbury pp. 4 and 
 Errata i page — See ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I 
 P- 123.] 
 
 CLIV. Reliqui^ Baxteri- 
 AN^ : or Mr Richard Baxter's 
 Narrative of the most Memorable 
 Passages in his Life and Times. 
 
 Faithfully publish'd from his own 
 original Manuscript by Matthew 
 Sylvester. London, Printed for 
 T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, J. 
 Lawrence and J. Dunton. 1696 
 [foho]. 
 
 Collation : Portrait by White— Title- 
 page — Epistle Dedicatory to Sir Henry 
 Ashurst pp. 2 — the Preface pp. 18— 
 Contents pp. 6 — Lib. I. Pt. L and 11. pp. 
 448 — Part II L pp. 200 — Appendix pp. 
 132. 
 
 \* Usually there follows Sylvester's 
 Funeral Sermon for Baxter pp. 18 — 
 — Index pp. 8. To all who would pos- 
 sess themselves of a very jewel-case of 
 original, penetrative, suggestive and 
 affectionate criticism I commend Cole- 
 ridge's Notes in the ' Reliquiae ' [Notes 
 on English Divines pp. 5-1 19 edn. 1853.] 
 
 CLV. Poetical Fragments : 
 Heart-Imployment with God and 
 Itself. The concordant discord of 
 a broken-healed heart. Sorrow- 
 ing-rejoicing, fearing-hoping, dy- 
 ing-living. Written partly for 
 himself and partly for near friends 
 in sickness, and other deep afflic- 
 tion. By Richard Baxter. Pub- 
 lished for the Use of the Afflicted. 
 The third edition. London, Print- 
 ed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible 
 and Three Crowns in Cheapside 
 Mercers- Chappel. 1699 [12°]. 
 
 Collation: Title-page — To the Reader 
 pp. 6 — Poems pp. 158^ — books, etc. pp. 4. 
 
 CLVI. Monthly Preparations 
 for the Holy Communion. By 
 R. B. To which is added Suit- 
 able Meditations before, in, and 
 after Receiving. With Divine 
 Hymns in Common Tunes ; Fitted 
 for Publick Congregations or Pri- 
 vate Families. 
 
 London ; Printed for Tho. Park- 
 hurst at the Bible and Three 
 Crowns, the lower end of Cheap - 
 side. 1696 [18°]. 
 
 Collation : Title-page — The Preface 
 to the Reader by Matthew Sylvester pp. 
 8 — Treatise pp. 172 — Books pubd. by 
 Parkhurst pp. 7. 
 
 CLVH. 'The Mother's Cate- 
 chism or a Familiar way of Cate- 
 H 
 
56 
 
 Writings of Richard Baxter. 
 
 chizing Children in the Knowledge 
 of God, themselves and the Holy 
 Scriptures. 1701. 8vo. Calamy : 
 ' Account' Vol. I. page 421. 
 
 *x* I have not been able to see this 
 except in the modern reprints e. g. in 
 Practical Works Vol. IV. pp. 34-64 [4 
 Vols, royal 8vo. 1838] : Preface by Syl- 
 vester. 
 
 CLVIII. Short Meditations on 
 Romans v. 1-5. 
 
 '^^^ I have not seen this. It is given 
 in * Practical Works ' 4 vols, royal 8vo. 
 Vol. III. pp. 1063-1068] : also by Orme, 
 
 CLIX. Of Redemption of 
 Time. 
 
 *A(.* I have not met with this either. It 
 is given as in CLVIII. [Vol. IV. pp. 1037- 
 1042] : also by Orme. 
 
 I^T Both of these, as above, are taken 
 from the original collected edition of the 
 * Practical Works ' 4 vols, folio 1707 : but 
 are undated. I suspect they were 
 ' Epistles ' or ' Prefaces ' to books by 
 others. 
 
 CLX. and CLXI. I did not 
 insert the following in their places 
 because tiot having found either I 
 am doubtful of their Baxterian 
 authorship : — 
 
 (i.) The invaluable Price of an 
 Immortal Soul. London. 168 
 
 (2. ) Preparations for Sufferings r 
 a wSermon. London. 1683. 8°. 
 
 These were once in Williams' 
 Library : but have long been 
 amissing. They appear in the 
 Catalogue of 1841 [Vol. 11. ] sub 
 nomine. 
 
 As stated ante: Orme ex- 
 tends his List to 168 but this he does by 
 repeatedly giving component parts of a 
 treatise as independent. [See under Nos. 
 III., CXXXI., etc. etc., in our List]. 
 This he did as merely copying from 
 Calamy or Book-Catalogues. < He omits 
 a number as well as inaccurately de- 
 scribes those included. We correctly 
 describe from actual copies all given 
 by him: and others unknown to him 
 and other Bibliographers. 'Our Pre- 
 fatory Note ' explains that we hope to 
 enumerate in a larger Work Baxter's 
 * Prefaces ' or ' Epistles,' translations of 
 his Writings, contemporary and later, 
 the many volumes and tractates called 
 forth in controversy with or concerning 
 him, and of his Manuscripts. I have ear- 
 nestly to request the co-operation of all 
 lovers of Baxter in helping me to make 
 this proposed . supplement as complete as 
 possible. 
 
 ttt Baxter like Bunyan repudiates 
 various publications that took his name, 
 e.g. 'Rules and Directions for Family 
 Duties,' etc. etc. etc. A copy of these 
 'Rules' (a folio sheet) is in British 
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