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AUTHOR: BAXTER, RICHARD TITLE: WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED PLACE: [LONDON] DA TE : 1868 ■■■■•MI4M COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT BIBLIOGRA PHIC MTCRn FORM TAR HFT Original Material as Filmed - Existing Bibliographic Record Master Negative # '^2 -go6ll- 2- fm S Jo^ -iBaxle V , "ReV-^Ti Lcii ar,d^_ l&l 5- 9L- B33 Miai We vriMsl do f o U saVed; ! ed: bi^ T?e/ fl. B. qr-osarl ... ^.Edin., |1S&^. D 4Sp. 0..;, "■Wlilllllllllll i» — .... m.^ ..^ Restrictions on Use: FILM SIZE: 3 ^-vA^ IMAGE PLACEMENT: lA ^ih I DATE Fil MED: JllJ/jJ HLMEDBY RESEARCH PTIRTT^ at TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA REDUCTION RATIO: //?<' i;b ^ 32-_ INITIALS /2__C_._ ONS. INC WOODBRinnF , CT BIBLIOGRAPHIC IRREGULARITIES MAIN ENTRY: BAxrei^ pcu/i/?D Bibliographic Irregula rities in the Original Dnnimpnfr Ust volumes and pages affected; include name of institution if filming borrowed text, Page(s) missing/ not available: yolumes(s) missing/not available:. .Illegible and/or damaged page(s):. 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GROSART, LIVERPOOL. -The noble Lord William Russell who dy'd for the liberty of his Country, a little before his death, by a trusty mcsscnficr, sent Mr Baxter his hearty thanks for this book ['Dying ThouKhls'J which had made him better acquainted with the other world than he was before, and not a little contributed to his relief and «up. port, and to the fitting him for what he was to go through. "-Ca lam v [Account. Vol. L, p. 420.] PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 1868. .11 :i1 rJ •< I I ^.;t fs It 'vmmmi^^m THE N O T E. The tractate by Baxter herein rc-prin.«I in ^ limited private «I.l,on, was unknown to Calamy, and also escaped lus best liio- grapher-ORMK. as well as Uarmno, in his "Cyclop.xdia liiblio- Kmplucx lly copy was fonncrly in ,l,e cclehrald Library of I)R ■""•'.. l!,..s.s of ( ..f,„,. a is l,.u,ul richly in n.orocco. and marke.1 by h.m as 'not n. the n„dlcian Ca,al„K>.c. ■S43." Another copy is .« t .e I!ra,.h Muscun, Library: Inu I have not n.et with any ,ncn,L of « elsewhere. As a lK,ok it is an.ong the rarest of liAXTER'.s, and I tevc heard of prices bein,. (jiven for it recently, that recall the Uiblio- manu. days of the Koxbur^he Sale. Intrinsically it is packcl with JuJ,c>ons thou,.l„. and has all its saintly author's best chamcter- .st.es, be,n. scriptural, fervent to passion of enlrc-aty, pungent, pointed, «nm,st.-,kable : withal it is pure "Dread of Life" for the humblest I K.ve the te.xt with scrupulous ndelity, and have added a few slishl foo,.„otc^ The original title-p.age will be found on the op,K,site I«g^ Mayan to whom the little I«ok comes "be saved," and by Ills mercy evidence it here in a " lioly life i " Utvr^vf, A. 13, G. CrawfonI & M'Cabc, Printers, 7 George Street. Edinburgh. Grand Questio Resolved. • N ' . -» , - - 5 • , » » » i , ' 1 J WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE • SAVED: INSTRUCTIONS FOR A I^oIb Htfe. m BY The late reverend Divine MR RICHARD BAXTER. Recommended to the Bookseller a few days before his death, to be immediately printed for the good of souls. Acts xvi. 30. Sirs ! What shall I do to be saved ? LONDON: Printed for T H O. P A R K H U R S T, at the Bible and Three Crowns, Cheap.side. 1692. [12°] CoUaticn : Title-page and pp. 4G. ilj I E&sBKlviitii ■JukJ .JiitiiiiiiJi SIW! ■■■■Ilil HI i^wff^-^.'ii'^-iBiiBi ^ • • • ••• •,,• • ; • • • ■ , ;•'.:'..: i* •••••• '• • .-. .•:••:*. .•::.•'• • • • • • «• •-! •• • • • •• • • • : : : •••; :..; • • •• • •• •• ••• • •. ; • . •• : •• • • • ■ \ ■S 111 o ' .-»:.'.» .•- •„' THE GREAT CASE' RESOLVED, HOW TO BE CERTAINLY SAVED. Irnstructfons for a J^olg Hifc • I. THE NECESSITY, REASON, AND MEANS OF HOLINESS. II. THE PARTS AND PRACTICE OF A HOLY LIFE. " Fiyr personal direction mid for family iyistruction . short Catechisms arid Prayers. Reader, With two t^l'GNORANT persons cannot remember long and many words, nor understand a brief style and fe\v 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 co7iverted. 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 vj. 33: Job xxi. 14, and xxii. 17: Psalm i. 2, 3. and xiv. 12. t<^ 82545 #1 .1 P I < t ••• •; t I • • • • ■' • j; • • ••• • #' •, •■ • ■4 t t • "-*"ff}sMclionsfor a Holy Life. t i *■ « C t . :. ^t (. i I «., I. f * » '■ •■ • 'f h(iii? m a*'tirfe|cl/ lisrifite sake of these careless slothful sinners, I have, TJ^ Great Case Resoh^ed. ^ for the happy enjoyment of his love, either here or in the life to come:* for what communion hath light with darkness ? VI. Hence then it is easy to see what grace is needful to a man's salvatio?i. 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 sm be pardoned,; and God is reconciled to the soul, what joy or peace can it expect from him whose nature and justice engageth him to loathe and punish it ? VIL And experience will tell you ho7c> insufficiait you are for either of these two 7uorks yourselves : \\ to renew your souls or to reconcile 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 ofl- 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 f 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 ■ " ^^^^ ''^^"- 7. 8, 15 : 1 Corinthians ii. ir, 21 : Hebrews xiv. 12 : 2 Peter i. 3. Jil' lO Instructions pr a Holy Life. I'l 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 turn 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 kno^\^l. And as you ver)- 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 Mar)% being conceived by the Holy Ghost : and timt we might have a Teacher sent from Heaven J 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 Tmth by abundant, open and uncontrolled mira- cles :|| how he conquered Satan and the world, § and gave lis 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 fort>' 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. 24-2S : Romans i. 19, 20 : Romans ii. 4 : Job xxxiii. 14-25 : Matthew xii. 42, 43. t Isaiah ix. 6, 7, and liii : John iii. 16. 19, and i. 3, 4, and iii. 2. t John L 18. 1 Acts ii. 22 : Hebrews ii. 3, 4. J Matthew iv. % t Beter ii. 22-25: Matthew: xxvi. af-«8 : Acts i. : Hebrews iv : Ephesians i. 22, 23: Romans v. 1, 3, 9: Hebrews viii. 9, 13. and viii. 6, 7: Hebrews viL 25: I John V. 10, 12 : John v. 22, and iii. 18, 19 : Matthew xxv. 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 and 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 Chnst 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 miser>^ The soul alone is judged at death, and body and soul at the resur- rection. This Gospel the apostles preached to the worid • 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 worid, till all the elect be gathered in. And the same Holy Spirit hath undertaken it as His work |I to accompany this Gospel and by it to convert men's souls • Luke xvi. t Acts ii: John xvii. 23. : Matthew xxviii. 19, 20: Acts xiv. 23 : Acts xx : xxvi. 17, 18. ; Romans viii. 9. ..,^ffig^:i;U n m^ 12 Instructions for a Holy Life. 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 lieaven. 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 miser}-, 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 CMst, this is the question yet unresolved, this is the work tliat 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 I 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 tif salvation, as thou wouldst escape hell-fire and • Titos 21. 5, 6 : Jolwi xiL 5, 4 t 2 Timothy in 16. X Hebrews ii. 3, 4. i 2 Corinthians xiii. 5 : Psalm iv. 4 : 2 Peter i. m 5 John Hi. 5 : 2 Corinthians v. 17 : Romans viii. 7-9: Philippians iii. 18-20. The Great Case Resolved. j^ 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 theef 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 sms, 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 worid, 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. So^e he deceiveth by malicious suggestions that hohness 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 : i| some he deceiveth by woridly hopes, and keepeth their minds so taken up with woridly 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 vam 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. \ Acts XXIV. 14, and xxviii. 22, and xxiv. 5 6 B Malachi ii. 7^ : Hosea iv. 9. j proverbs xiii. 20. T tpnesians iv. 18, 19. t mm , . Instructions for a Holy Life. 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 wiU-as if it were a grievous life to love God and hope for endless ^cj-^; and a pleasant life to love the world and sin, and live withm 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.f And some that see there is a necessity of holiness are cheated by some dead opinion or names or shews and images of holmess:; 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, woridbness and hy- pocrisy do hinder millions from sanctification and salvation. XI If ever thou wouldest be saved, oppress not reason hy sensuality or diversions: but sometimes retire for sober consideration. II 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 % Sure thou hast no greater things to mind. Re- solve then sometimes to spend half an hour in the deepest thoughts of thy everlasting stote. . u.u^; ; ,-t t Matthew xxv. 3. S. IJ. and xxlv. «3, M ,9-22,and.xv. 2, 3.6:r«.latiansi. I. 8 I,-.Hh i , 1 ktlm iv. 4 : Haggai i. 5 = Douter xxxu. !-«,. 5 I«'»f '• 3- T/ie Great Case Resolved. j, XII. Look upon this world and all Us pleasures as a man of reason, who foreseeth the end: and not as a beast that hveth 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 tlieir 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 + 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 rnore 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. Mmd well, what mind most men are of when they come to dtelX Unless it be some desperate forsaken wretch do they not all speak well of a holy life? and ^vish 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 worid? Had they not rather die as the most mortified saints, than as careless, fleshly woridly sin- * 2 Corinthians iv. 8: Deut xxvii' '>«• t t„j,„ •• ^ 19. - : John xiv. r, . : . Thess: v ^ ^ * ^ "' ^' = ' ^°'- "'• ^' = ^uke xii. t Luke xii. 4 : Eccl. xii. ^ : 2 Peter iii. xi : 2 Cor. iv. 18 : Phil iil rS 20 t Numbers xxm. xo : Matt. .xxv. 8 .- vii. 2x 22 : Prov. i. ,S. 2g. Instructions for a Holy Life. ners ? and dost thou see and know this, and yet wilt thou mot be instructed to be wise in time ? XV. Think well what manner of men these were whose marnes are noiv 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 betiveen a Christian and an heathm.^ You are loath to be heathens or infidels. But do you think a Christian excelleth them but in opinion? He thai is not holier than they, is worse, and shall suffer more than they. XVII. Think what the difference is between a godly Christian and an ungodly.X 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 ver>^ 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 and factions and controversies about religion in the world :\\ even to make some think that they are reli- • Matthew xxiii. 29-33 '• Heb. xt. 38 : John viii. 39. t Matthew x. 15 : Romans it : Acts x. 34, 35. t Romans ii. a8» 99: Matthew xxv. a8: Luke xk. 22: Acts xxiv. 15: Gala- tkns iv. 29. N Ephesians iv. 14: Acts xx. 30: i Corinthians xi. 19: 2 Timothy i v. 3, and ii. 14, 16: I Timothy i. 5, 6 : Titus iii. 9: Ephesians iv. 3 etc. : i Corinthians xii: Matthew xil. 25: Romans ii. 12, 27-29. T/ie 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 jangling; and t9 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 with 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. Airny from that company % 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. fudge not of a holy life by hearsay, for it cannot so • Galatians i. 7. 8 : Matthew xxviii. 20. f James iii. 17. : Ephesians v. n: Proverbs xxiii. 20: 2 Corinthians vi. 17, 18: Psalm xv, 4 Deuteronomy xiii. 3. ^ B t8 Instructions far 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 lived 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 tliee to justify a holy life.t 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 mil 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 ftiy 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. it Luke xiv. 33. $ Revelations xxii. 17: John i. 12: Revelations ii. and iii. : i John v. 12, 13: ftelm xxxiv. 7: Psalm Ixxiii. 26: Matthew xxv. : Luke xx. 39: Hebrews ii. 3: riTiessalonians ii. i», % Luke xix. 27 : Proverbs xxix. x, and i. lo, 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 tliou 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 y ! 90 Instructions for a Holy Life. and family instructions. All is not done when men have begun a religious life.* All trees that blossom prove not fruitful, and all fruit comes not to perfection. Many fall off who seemied 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 aret 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 minds : \\ that is, understand it clearly and distinctly and remember it, I meaa Ihe great • X Corinthians i. 25 : Hebrews iv. i : a Peter ii. 22 : i Corinthians iii. : Gala- tians iii. and iv. : Matthew xiii. 41, and xviii. 7. t Philippians iii. »8, 19: Acts xx. 30. X Matthew v. 16: i Peter ii. 18: 2 Corinthians i. 21. I' 3 Timothy i. 13, and iii. 71 HcUrews v. la: Philippians i. 9: Romans xv. 14. i 77ie 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 aiui you. Being well-grounded in the belief of the Gospel and understanding Christ's ofllice, 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 sufliicient, par- doning, justifying and victorious grace. When thou thinkest 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 1. 9, and ii. 2, and iii. 10 : i Timothy vi. 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 : 1 John v. 4 : Hebrews iv. 14, 16, etc. I I InstrudioJis 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. HL To believe in the Holy Ghost as to live and work by Mm, 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. If 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, tt 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 ^ conduct of the Spirit • Galatians v. i6, 25. t Matthew xxviii. 19. X John xvi. 13: Hebrews ii. 34. II I Corinthians xii. 12, 13: Romans viii. 9, 13: John iii. 5, 6. $ Spelled ' indicted.' G. t a Timothy iiL 15, 16: Jude 19, 20. •* • Well-timed * or provident. G. ft Ezekiel xx.xvL aj; Isaiah xUv. 3: Romans viii i, f « Corinthians vi. 11 Zechariah xiv. 20. TTie 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 prosperity or pleasure but his love : % 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. IF 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. X Psalm XXX. 5, and Ixiii. 3. || Philippians iii. 7, 8. 5 Matthew xvi. 13, % 2 Thessalonians iii. 5 : 2 Corinthians xiii. 14. 24 Instructions far a Hvly Life, The Great Case Resolved. the final act and God the final object. Place not your religion in anything but the love of God, with its means and fruits. Own no grief, desire or joy but a mourning, a seeking and a rejoicing love. V. Live in tJie belief and hopes of heaven^ and seek it as your part and end ; 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 wiidemess. 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. VL 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 in. 1-4: Matthew vi. 19-21, 33: 2 Corinthians iv. 17, 18, and vii. : Luke xii. 20 : Hebrews vi. 20 : 1 Corinthians xv. 28 : Ephcsians iv. 6, and i. 23 : Philippians iii. i8, 20 : Psalm Ixxiii. 25, 26 : John xviii. 36. t Psalm i. a, 3; Ixxxiv. 2, 10: Ixiii. 3, 5: xxxvti. 4: xci. 19: cxix. 47, 70: Isaiah Iviii. 14 : Ps^lm cxii. 1 : Romans xiv, if, amA W. t, Jp $: » Peter i. 8 : Matthew v. 11, 12: Psalm xxxiL 11. , 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. VIL Watch as for your souls against this f ottering, tempting world r^' especially when it is represented as more sweet and delectable than God and holiness and heaven. This worid 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 fRiit. 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 worid, 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 worid, which • Galatians vi. 14 : i John ii. 15, i6 : 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. 2^ Instructions for a Holy Life. ."11 IB ''1 if 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 imileth 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 and senses* Many who had no designed, stated vice or woridly 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 case 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. Kiipr whatilis you are most in danger of: whetfier 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, tl-at shame may save you from danger. IX. Keep up a constant, skilful government over your passions and your tongues, t To this end keep a tender •Romans viii. i, if! Galatians v. 24: Romans xiii. 14 : Galatians v. 17 : Jude 8. 23 : 2 Peter ii. 10 : Ephesianiii 3 1 1 Peter ii. xi : Matthew vi. 13 : xxvi. 41 : Luke viii. 13. ^ , • • /^ 1 t James i. 19 : in. 17 : 1 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 skilful 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. Got^ern your thoughts with constafit skilful diligence, 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 yoyr consciences and your God, with whom you have the greatest business. Leave not your thoughts unem- ployed or ungovemed, 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 he exceeding precious in your eyes, and 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. LM i Insiructiom far a Holy Life. fully and diligently redeem it * What haste doth it make! and how quickly will it be gone! and then how highly wil it be valued when a minute of it can never be recalled ! O what important business have we for every moment of mm time, if we should live a thousand years ! 1 ake not that man to be well in his wits or to know his God, his end, Ms 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 worldhness : but also from the entanglements of lesser good which would hinder you from greater. Spend time as men tiiat 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 : anci spend it just as you would review it when it is gone. , XII. Let the loi'e of all in their sa'eral capacities, become as it 7i;ere 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 nei-hbour 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 complacence 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. 16 : John xlv. i. 2 : Acts xvii. « : i Corinthians vii. 29 : 2 Cor- inthian' vi. 3 : John ix. 4 : Luke xix. 4=. 44 : Psalms xxx.x. 4 -■''l^'f'^l''^^Xns 1 1 Timothy i. 5. 6 : Matthew xix. 19 : ^°"^^^^ ''•»■ ^° '' ' >*?.? '- ^^ ' tP!""!*"' iv 2 15. 16 : Colossians ii. 2. andi. 4 : i Timothy vi. 11 : James .... 17 : Ph.hpp,ans r X 2 : X Thessalonians iv. 9 : John xiii. 35 : Matthew v 44, 45 : i Connth.ans xiii; : James iv. ix : Galalians vi. i« ; TU»i U. 14 : PhUippians ... 20, « : Romans Tlie Great Case Resolved. 29 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 9ur duty to men : which must be deeply written 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 way 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 Instructions for 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 : Acts iv. 32 ; ii. 42 : i Corinthians i. 10, 1 1, 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 ill : 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. ag, 4»- Tlu Great Case Resolved. 31 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 \Wsdom which causeth bitter envying and strife and confusion and every evil word. * Blessed are the peace- makers.' XIV. Take heed of pride and self-comeitedness in religion f. 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 mtolerable that take you not as oracles and your word as law. Forget not that the Church hath always suffered by censorious, woridly 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 conscionable in all your relations. 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 afflictors. And instead of murmuring 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: 1 Corinthians i. ,o : Romans xvi. 17 : James iiL 14-18. 1 1 Timothy ui. 6 : Colossians ii. 18 : i Corinthians viii. i ; iv. 6: i Timothy vi 4 : I Peter V. 5 : James iii. i, ^^ : Ephesians v. and vi. : Colossians ui. and iv. ■ Romans xia. 1,7:1 Peter ii. 13, 15. ^2 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 Gods service into a customary, lifeless form. Read the scrip- ture and edifying books to them ; talk with them senously 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 vvisdom, holiness and patience; and see that the Lords day be spent in holy preparation for eternity. XVII Let your callings he managed in holiness and laboriousnessA 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 wUl fare the worse ; but let all be but a^ the labour of a traveller, and aim at God and heaven in all. XVIII Deprive not yourself of the be?iefit of an able, faithful pastor A to whom you may open your case in secret, or at least of a holy faithful fnend :|| 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.^ 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 . CommandX^: Joshua xxiv. 15: Deut. vi. 6-8 : Daniel vi. f Hebrews xiii. 5: Command iv. : 2 Thessalon.ans m. 10. «. 1 ihessa ,o„L"t7: X Timothy V. X3 : Proverbs xxxi. : x Corinth^s vu. ^ \ St^/iv. xo, XX. 5 Proverbs xii. x : xv. ,0, ,r : Hebr^^ii^^^^^ if Luke xii. 40 : 2 Peter i. xo : Philippians i. 2X. 23 : Jerem.ah .x. 4. 5 • Matthe^v »i. 4. f : a Corinthians v. i-a, 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. As 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. 11 Luke xiv. 26, 33 : i John ii. 15 : Matt. vi. 19, 20, 2X, 33 : Colossians iii. i, a : Romans viii, x, 13. C ♦ 1 * «iiliii *«■■ Instructions for 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 way to God, which 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 ht seriously such as all among us in general would prefer to be. TIms 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 religion a servant to their policy, to their am- • l)itious 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 fomiality, 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 discipHne 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 iiid love to God and npn, in mortifying the flesh and Tlie 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. )» )i I k Quest. I. What is the Christian Religion? Ans. 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. Quest. 2. Where is our covenant-part and duty fuUier 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- 36 Instructions for a Holy Life. munion of saints ; the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of the body ; and the life everlasting. Amen. THE lord's T^MmWL 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 Gfod, whicli have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Tliou 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 tliat 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-ser\'ant, 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 i Tlie Great Case Resolved. 37 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 ? Ans. 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. Tlie 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 \vill, 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 Instructions 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 lansom 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 ieatcil: where He is the glorified Head over all things to the Church and our prevailing Intercessor ^\^th the Father : who will there receive the departed souls of the justified : and at the end of this world will come again and roiisc 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 ive the pardon of their sins and shall have everlasting liie* .\ The Great Case Resolved. 39 The Covenant or Covenants, — Believing in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I do perfecdy, 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 captain of my salvation, in hope of His promised grace and glory. A short Catechism for those that have learned t/ie 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 o\vn 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? " 1 * m ■ ■ 40 Instructions for a Holy Life. T/ie Great Case Resolved. Am, God so loved the world that He gave His only . Son to be their Saviour : Who being God and One v/ith the Father, took our nature and became man : being con- ceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mar>' 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 worid : 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 ? Am. God through Jesus Christ doth freely give to all mankind Himself, to be their reconciled God and Father, Ae 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 worid and tie iesli, 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 worid and the flesh. 41 Quest. 7. What believe you of the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints and the forgiveness of sins? Afis. 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. Quest. 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 worid 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. Ans. 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. A ■*l' i 42 Instructions f&r a Holy Life. Qttest. 10. What is the practice which by this covenant you are obliged to? ^ Am, According to the law of nature and Christ's in- stitutions I must— desiring perfection— sincerely obey Him m a life of £3u|h ^d 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 the Church-assemblies : I must honour and obey my pa- rents, magistrates, pastors and other rulers : I must not wong my neighbour in thoiight, 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- ments ' God spake these words, saying,' etc. A Prayer for Families in the method of the Lord's Prayer, being but an Exposition 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 world: 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 days Conference, and more fully in my ' Univcrsai Concord. '-[See my List of Laxters Writings. G.J Tlie 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 nartie ! 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 knowTi 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 r4| 44 Instructions f&r 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 hj 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 om sins against knowledge Wd 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 The Great Case Resolved, ^e worid, or tried by Thy judgments above the strength which Thy grace shall give us. Save us from a fearless confidence m 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 worid 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 oui sins would bring upon 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 worid and more than,the life of all the living » Thy kingdom is everiasting ! 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-living God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, infinite in Thy. power, wisdom and goodness ! Thou art the Author of all the worid, the Redeemer of lost mankind, and the Sanctifier of Thine elect ! Thou hast ^%f Instructims 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 recoiici|g4 F^tlier tal^ 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 everiasting life. And to dwell 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 worid- liness, and give us self-denial, humility and a heavenly mind, that while we are on earth, our hearts may be in heaven, where we 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 everiasting state. Lord bless the worid, 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 narions 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 Instructions fiw a Holy Life, fully instruct their children and sen-ants and restrain them from sin and keep them from temptation. Teach children and ser\ants 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 glorj- for ever. Amen. BePrtMeat. ilost gracious God, who hast given us Christ and with Him all that is necessar}- to life and godliness : we thank- fully take this our food as the gift of Thy bount>', procured by His 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. Aftir 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 sancrifpng 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, riHis. wmmmim wmmm Mfli annotatetr ILtst OF THE WRITINGS OF RICHARD BAXTER AUTHOR OF Kiie Saint's e&erlasttng IXest A fade from COPIES OF THE BOOKS AND TRACTATES THEMSELVES BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LIVERPOOL. ' How tnie 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." Henrv Rogers, author of ' The Eclipse of Faith,' etc. etc. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 1868. ' " ■f fc w i oi m mmmmmmm PREFATORY NOTE. HOPE to be able to complete in a goodly numbei 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 our 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' {b) Manuscripts in Williams' Library and elsewhere— (<:) Translations of his Writings {d) Books and tractates in controversy, or other- wise relating to him. {d) Will bring up the List to ixX. \^ v 4 Prefatory Note, believed) 200 distinct publications : and I may observe t|at many of his * Prefaces ' and * Epistles ' are really priceless 'Essays' and even treatises on the subject of which they treat* Tliis 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 ^lielfew/llliinp were nctcr 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 llM been one of tlie Fathers of the Church. It is enough lor 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 tlieni: tliey are all good* pLife' 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 * ■Wider Baxter, te ftiinis refetences]. * 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- liaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. I. A B. New York 1867 sub nomine " 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. — AH 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 genus omne unreliable. — Orme's List at close of his 'Life' of Baxter (Vol. L of the ' Practical Works,' 23 vols. 8vo. 1830) extends to 168 : and it is one oi 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. 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 Sainfs 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 I ■ HH " I MP "^ H ni W i P i fflUMn ii ^ Prefatory Note, reasons are past and gone I could ^ish 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 teen set ihan any of these fore-mentioned : in which I Mve met wiii gmit ©bstiriictlons. For I must declare iMH Ih this as among other matters I have found that we swe not the choosers of our o\vn employments, no more than of our own successes.' [Reliqui« Lib. i. page 124]— Curiously enough the most imperfect and inaccurate list of Baxter's Writii^ m his own in the ' Reliquia.' He forgot many, and anteniates and post-dates, and otherwise mis-describes. ^ ^* ^^1 ™^ch oblige me if any one who chances to see ills iMloll^ wfll kindly inform me where I can find the few in this List uncollated : and also any of the earlier (contemporar}') translations into German, Dutch, French, etc I shall cordially acknowledge help rendered. ALEX.\XDER B. GROSART. ANNOTATED LIST OF BAXTER'S WRITINGS. 'f .^ I- ApHORISMES of TrSTIFICA- V* Tiox, 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. B\x- TER. Hebr. 9. 15. London, Pnnted for Francis T\ton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet Street, neer the Inner -Temple Gate. 1649 [i8mo]. Collation: Title-page — the Epistle t>edicatory 'To the learned, zealous, ^ithfull ministers of Jesus Christ, Mr Richard Vines, Master of Pembroke- Hall m Cambridge and Mr Anthony Burges, Pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire, members of the Reverend Assembly of Divines, my ver>' much valued fnends and brethren in the work and patience of the Gospel' pp. 10- to the Reader pp. 21— treatise pp. 335—' the chief-distmclions upon which this dis- course dependeth' pp. ii— postcript I 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 ' Reliquicp BaxUHamr^ [No. div.] Baxter gives a characteristic ac- I count of the ongin 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- i ?^T «l-.. ^- ?P- 4tc^4". My friend I loshua Wilson Esq. of Tunbridge Wells . has an edition of the 'Aphorisms' [1655 24mo] bearing the imprint of 'the I Hague: ' but which was actually printed at Cambridge: See Baxter's 'Catholic , JL"^"'°f?V J^reface p. v. : also Answer to i iJr 1 ullie s Letter,' p. 10 on this surrepti- j tious 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 u ^^ *^his 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, IL 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 * obser\'ing how many lately are set a-work on the same subject, as Whit- held, Stalham, Howe, Owen, and some men of note now upon it.' In a short address to the Reader prefixed to the Appendix ' we have thisapology. 'The disorder of the interrogations and objec- tions which extorted from me this whole tractate b>' pieces one after another, hath caused me— an unfeigned lover of method— to give thee such a dlsorderiy, 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 fii ji 9 Annotated List of the wrote only for those who knew less than •j-self. If thou kniiw more, thank God and join with me for the instruction of the ignorant, whose information, refor- mation and salvation, and thereby God's glorjf is the lop of my ambition.' For notices of Vines and Blrges or Burgess to whom the ' Aphorisms ' is dedicated, see Brook s * Lives of the Puritans ' for the fomier [\'oI. III. pp. 230-2^5]. and for the ktter Calamy ' Accmmi' [V'uL II. PP- 739-74*3 and page S53 * Cffntinua- II. The Saint's Everlast- 13SG Rest : or a Treatise of the blessed state of the Saints in their enjoj-ment of God in Glorj-. Wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty ; the miser>- of those that lose it, the way to attain it and assurance of it • and how to liTC 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 langiiishing, when Gotl took him off from all publike implo\-ment ; and afterwards preachetl in his weekly Lecture : and now pub- vlished by Richard Baxter, Teacher of the Church of Kederminster in Worestershire. London, Printed by Rok White for Thomas Un- derhil and Francis T\-ton, and are to be sold at the Blue Anchor and Bible in Pauls Church-yard, near the little Xorth-door, and at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet, near the Inner-Temple gate. 1650 [4".] (11 \si edn. 165a CoUatien : Title- page [on which is the ■ License ' thus Jan. ^ 15. 164^ Imprimatur, Joseph Caryl ' the " Licenser' being the erudite and venerable Commentator on ' Job ^\— Epistle Dedic-iton.- of ■ the whole ' Kwk to 'ray dearly beloved friends, the in- habitants of the Burrough and Sovereign of Kederminster, both magistrates and , people' pp. II— Epistle r»edicat.>r\' of I * the First Part ' to ' the right Worship- I ful Sir Thomas Rous. Baronet, with the Lady Jane Rous, his wife ' pp. 3— Con- tents or Table pp. S — 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 j of the Truth and certain futurity j 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 Dedicator)' « 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 whom he was sent (or j fixed) to publish the Gospel. And in thankfulness to the Divine Ma- ijesty who there priviledged and i protected him ' pp. 2 — To the j Reader pp. S, dated 'Jan. 18, I 1649— Part IL pp. 167-260. I Next, a separate title The Saint's I Everiasting Rest. The Third j Part. Containing severall Uses j of the former Doctrine of Rest. j London [as before]. Then, Epis- \ tie Detlicator>^ * To my dearly be- j loved Friends the inhabitants of the ! city of Coventry both magistrates ; and people : especially CoL John j Barker and CoL Tho. Willoughbv, j 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 tow ard him and ready acceptance of his labors among them — which is the highest recompense, if jo>-ned 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 hean in heaven : by the diligent practice of that excellent unknown Writings of Richard Baxter, r 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 Shrewsburv', both magis- trates, ministers, and people, °as also of the neighbouring parts. Rich. Ba.xter devoteth this practi- rale 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 i Introduction pp. 555-558_Pt. I P- PP- 559-84S— On flv-leaf, , first side 'Errata,' headed 'If you \*-ilI reade nothing but what was intended by the ' Author amend these misprintings : the rest are but small. ' (2) 2d edn. 165 1. Same title- i page except 'The second edition corrected and enlarged,' and 'Un- derbill ' sf>elled so and not with a ' single 1 as in ist edn. title. Ep : Dedy. pp. 2. Preface pp. 35. Pt. 1 1, 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. \* ' Fini.s on page 304 : and what fol- lows after awanting. (4) 4th edn. 1653. Title-page as before except * The fourth edi- tion.' Collation: Title-page — Ep : Dedy p. 13— to Rous pp. 3— A Premonition as to alterations and additions ' pp. 12 dated ' May 17. 1651 ' a sing:ularlv inte- resting autobiographic Addres-s-^on- ^nts pp. 8 ' Errata ' on the last page— Ft. I. pp. i34--separate title — as before —London [xs in general title, supra\— Ep : Dedy. pp. 2— the Preface pp. 35 val- uaole and searching— PL IJ.pp. 185-304. Separate title [as before]— Ep. Dedy pp. 2— Pt. IIL pp., 312 [se- parate pagination] 'Finis' on page 312— Separate title — [as before]— Ep. Dedy. i page— 'the Intro- duction pp. 4-^S— Pt. IV. pp. 7-304 [also separate pagination ']. ; (3) yiain : 1652— Title-page as before e.vcept 'The third edition' and at bottom ' by Rok White ' \ left out. I Ctfllaf/im: Title-jiaz&. Ep:Dedvpn '3— t'' R-'us pp. 3. Premonition [which slill reads as fur 'second' edn.] pp. 12 Contents pp. 8. Pt. L pp. 184. Separate Collation : Title-page. Ep. Dedy. pp. I 13 — to Rous pp. 3. Premonition [still as , before] pp. 12. Contents pp. 8. Pl I. pp. ! ^83. ] At page 160 follows in this edition two ! and a half pages unpaged confessing a 1 mistake in 'doctrine' very airious . Then goes on from the last of these pages, and -so pp. 161 to 1S3 as «/>ra— which ex- plams the mispaging of rS^ instead of 184. Separate title. Ep. Dedy. on re- verse. Preface pp. 35. Pt. IL'i85-:(04. Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2. Pt. III. pp. 368 • Finis ' on page 36S [as before]. Separate title. Ep. Dv. on page 3. Intro, pp. 4-6. Pt. IV. pp. 7-304 : and as in 3d edn. follg. (5) 5^^ ^dn. 1654, Title-page as before 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//i edn. 1656. Title-page as before except 'The sixth edn.' .All exaaly as before in 5th edn. j *♦* In Abp. Marsh's ' Library ' I Dublin, the copy of this edition has the autograph of Mich. Jephson and th Greek motto Travraxu tIiv \ aXiiQuav \ (7; Vh 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 snfrra. Ep. I>y. pp. II— to Rous pp. 2. Premonition pp. 7 [as before] Contents pp. 5. Pt. I PP- »53- Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2.' Preface pp. 159-187. Pt. IL pp. 189-297. Separate title. Ep. Dy. pp. 2. Pt. Ill pp. 297-580. Separate title. Ep. Dy pp. 2. Intro, pp. 2. Pt. HI. .37-815. 1 hen as before pp. 8 1 7-829. But then pp. I lO Annotated List of the Writings of Richard Baxter. II 830-836 dated 'Jan. 15, 1657' to the Reader added. Table pp. 3- (8) Wi edn. 1659. Title-pages as in 7th : except * the eighth edition.' All the rest the same as 7th. (9) 9M edn. I have not hap- pened to meet with this. (10) lothedn. 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) iith edn. 167 1 and also one so designated 1677. Title-pages as before, except 'the eleventh edition'— and added to publisher as follows 'And Robert 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) iithedn. 1688. Same book In all respects but pp. 796 instead of pp. 836 as supra, ^t I note that after the ' Restoration' the famous passage in which the Pa- triots of the Commonwealth are named as in glory, is omitted. Cf page 86 of ist edition : page loi 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 niy 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 weakne.ss where I had no books nor no better em- ployment 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- Mallory 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 R"us- 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. 1 his Book it pleased God so far to bless to the profit of many that it encouraged me to be guilty of ail 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 I have again received by their prayers I here humbly return my thanks to Him that compelled me to write it. [As before Part I. page 108.] To this it were a pleasant but here an impossible, task to cull the many tributes naid to this holy and hallowing book by the foremost men of this generation: and equally so to record actual cases of highest gwd 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 for Walmer Castle. // is the last hook his Grace is knmvn to have read: and that within a few 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 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 165 1. [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. 1 1. ' 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 Air Tombes his valedictory oration to the people of Berdley : in Vin- dication of the fifth Direction which I five my hearers of Kedenninster in the reface ofmy book,entituled ' The Saint'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. 1651 After page 233 another separate title * A Corrective for a circum- fcraneous Antidote against the verity of a p)assage 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 U.sher, 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. I.] and asks that before a ' second edition ' be pub- li.shed all who love the truth will send the Author their 'Animad- versions ' that he may himself profit and good otherwise be done. See the ^Reli^uiie^ 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, mm Annofated List of the etc. , as distinct worlcs, one of many [ the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet mistakes wherebv he over-extends | 1653 [12-.] 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. L. 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 Acc-tm- niodation in the fore-debated L'ontro- 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 \ before Pt. I. pp. I09-I lo] — Bax Reader '-pp. 347-367. Then another : ter mentions that it had 'pleased PnefestmantisMorator orMriombe>» ,^, t ta u j • i. ij his Precursor staid and e.vamined. and f "'^"' ^^^ Hammond : but adds proved not to be from heaven but of man. i the women and weaker sort I Vet God by Mr T. sendeth thus truth to foimd COuld not SO well improve the hearts of all whom it may concern ; dear reason as they can a few Proscurs. page 82. S J [Pastors and 1 each- , ,, •. j v « « **.« comfortable, warm and prett>- sen- tences ; it is style and not reason which doth most with them. And 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 \-alued, beloved and honored friends Col. John Bridges, with Mrs Mara.iret Bridges his wife, and Mr Thomas Foley with Mr> Anne Foley, his wife." pp. 12 — To the poor m spirit, pp. 23— The contents pp. 15— Errau x page — Treatise pp. 540. In the * Reliquia: ' is given an account of the origin of this search- ing and still potential book — [As page 52. S3 [P: ers or Presbyters to teach and govern the Church of God I am assured are a Divine institution and a verj' merciful gift of Chri-st, Ephesi-ms iv. n, 12, 13: z Corinthians .xii. 2S : Acts .xiv. 23 : I Timothy iii. i : Titus ii. 5 to whom people should yield obedience Hebrews aiiii. 7, 17 and yield maintenance liberally t Corinthians ix. 14: Galatian.s vi. 6: 1 Timothy v. 17. iS. If any go about to some of the Divines were angry with it for a pa>.sage or two about Perseverance, because I had said that many men are certain of their present sanctification which are extirpate them. let him be a':cursed as an ' not certain of their perseverance enemy to Christ and his Church ] Or | and salvation : meaning ail the if Socinusbeofmoreauthont\- withtnem i „^ji., »u»» .. ^ _ j r ..t. • let them receive the .same tnith from 1 goa'y that are assured of their theirCracovianCaiech.de Eccles. cap. 2. : sanctification and yet do not hold London, Printed in the year 1656. Con- 1 the certaintv of perseverance. But S*»^i[e;i'aa.^riS.Sr'Mr'» ereat st6m. of jealousie and Baxter and Mr Tombes concerning the censure w-as by this and some such Dispute- London Printed in the year ' words raised against me, by many 1636. On reverse of title a 'Note' 'on good men, who lav more on their tbe publication. Letters pp. 405-415. ; ^„:„: j „ _» '.t. .1 i. r FF * 3 •♦ 3 , opmions and party than they ought. IV. The Right Method for a Therefore whereas some would settled Peace of Conscience and 1 ^^^'« ^'^^ ^^ to retract it and Spiritual Comfort. In 32 Direc- pthers to leave it out of the next tions.. Written for the use of a impression, I did the latter, but troubled friend : and now pub- instead of it I published not long lished by Richard Baxter, Teacher after my book called ** R. B.'s of the Church at Ketierminster in Judgment about the Persoerance Worcestershire. London, Printed of I^elievers.^' [In/ra.] for T. Underhill, F. T>ton and ' V I» the same year •* the second e-, with Mr Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr CanL London, Pnnted for T. Underhill and F. T)ton, and are to be sold by Is. Xevil 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 WhaJIey pp ^A separate title as follows : ' Rich. Baxters Account given to his reverend brother .Mr T. Blake of the Rea.sons of nis l>is.sent from the Doctrine of his Ex- ceptions in his late Treatise of the Cove- nants. London. Printed by A. M. for Thomas Underbill at the Anchor and Bible in Paul's Church-j-ard and Francis T5-ton at the three Da^ers in Fleet- street 1654'— the Preface Apologeticai 14 Annotated List of the Writings of Richard Baxter. H pp. i^the Contents pp. 4— Treatise pp. 155— Postscript p. 3. [Often ainissing 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 'J 1654. — Quotations pp. lo — the Contents pp. 8 — * Treatise ' pp. 144. *Post- scnpt ' pp. 2 — Errata and a note i page. Another separate title 'Rich- ard Baxter's Confvtation of a Dissertation for the Justification of Infidels : Written by Ludio- mxus Colvinus alias Ludovicus Molinaeus, Dr of Physick and History, Professor in Oxford, against his brother Cyrus Moli- nreus. 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 which was the cause of this Dissertation pp. 6 — Treatise * of the Part of Faith 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. lo — 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 amusiHg. 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 i presented to Mr Joseph Car)-! by Rich. Baxter. London [as the first separate title-page, supra] 1654 — 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. Tesu. 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. [Lib. I. p, 110.] Or.mk makes five different works out of ahm'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 Unicome 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-rage — 1st special title-page.— Epistle Dedicatory to * Serjeant Glyn, now Judge of Assize ' pp. 20. Errors z page, ist Sermon from I Corinthians vi. 19, 20, pp. 1-116. 2d special title-page. To the Christian reader 2 pp. 2d Sermon from Psalm ii. 10-12, pp 121-216. %• The ♦ Reliqmia* says 'The first wa5 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. no.] 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 far- mer's autograph, dated 1815, 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. 1 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 Gauker pp. 19. Errata i page. V*The last Letter is written by Charles Gataker for his venerable and then dying father. See 'Reliquia'Syixh. L p. iii] for a veiy severe and unhappily well-de- served castigation of Dr John Owen, who wrote most unrighteously against both Baxter and John Goodwin. Baxte r 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 I thought meet to make them pub- lick. London, Printed for Tho- ' mas Underbill and Francis Tyton 11655. [4°.] Collation: Title-page and pp. 11. %* The British Aluseum copy has a contemporary date 'Jany 2d.' and the letter 5 in 1655 is marked out and 4 written. Baxter in the ' Reliquiae 'tLib. L p. iii] describes this as ' one scrap of a sermon taken by some one and printed.' XII. 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 imto 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 da^ers in Fleet street. 1655. [12°]. 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. W^ith 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. xiL 22 to 33. A Postscript against Mr Lyford's exceptions. i6 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. 284-3 la 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 spnak of already in my second part of the Saint's Rest.' See ' Reliquise ' [Lib. L p. n] for notice of this very able and acute book. Orme cannot have seen this work or any of the combined treatises. • XIII. Gildas Salvianus ; 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 Unicom in Paul's Church-yard. 1656 [12° J. Collation: 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. %• 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 ' Reliquiae ' [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 Unicom in Paul's church-yard. 1656 [i2°J. Writings of Ridiard Baxter, 17 Collation: This small volume con- L-iining Creed, Commandments and a Catechism consists of 42 pages. The former part of 1 1 pages is subscribed by 58 ministers, of whom Richard Baxter stands first. %• See 'Reliquise' [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 tme 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 WiUiam Du-Gard for Thomas Johnson at the Golden Key in St Paul's Church-yard. 1657 [sm. 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- gpustine — Two Postscripts pp. 527-541 — Errata pp. 2. V Cf. 'Reliquise' [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°]. Collation : 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.' XVII. 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 — 1 realise pp. 455— Table pp. 13 [the la*t 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 tme 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 Paul's 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. I. pp. 114]. ' 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. • iS Annotated List of the Writing of Richard Baxter. 19 XIX. A Winding-sheet for Popery. By Richard Baxter, CATHOLICK. London, Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Book- seller in Kederminster, Anno Dom. 1657. [12°]. Collation : Title-pasre — and pp. 13. **• See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. n6]. 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. [I2°j. Collaiion: Title-page — and pp. 14. %* See ' Reliquiae* [Lib. L p. 117]. XXI. 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. *\* See ♦ Reliquiaj' [Lib. I. p. 116]. XX IL 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 ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 117]. XXIII. 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 use of others yt need it. By Richard Baxter^ impelled by the love of God and men to become theirsubmissive Monitor. London, j Printed by Robert White for , Nevil Simmons. 1657. [12°]. %* Collation: Half-title — and pp. 7. I My copy is a contemporary MS. dated j 'Octob. 20. 1657' — and looks like the holograph of Baxter. I purchased it in Worcester along with a number of Baxter's 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. I. 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 who have written of it. Cf. Rogers' splendid * Essay ' prefixed to the modem 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 version 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. \ V > 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 ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 110] for autobiographic references in connection with this tractate. XXVL 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 Eastor: where though I sent the day efore 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 Vmes himself was fain to get up into the pulpit and sit behind me and I 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. I. s. 112.] XXVIL 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. 11 — To the ignorant or careless reader pp. 3 — Trea- tise pp. 174 [Text 2 Corinthians v. 10, 11]. *#* 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 treatise. This was preached at Paul's fSt Paul's] at the desire of Sir Christopher Pack, then Lord Mayor, to the greatest audi' tory t/iat I ever saw.' ' Keliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 112], XXVin. The Crucifying of the Worid 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-- \' 20 Annoiated List of the Writings of Richard Baxter. 21 the Contents pp. 6 — ^boolcs of same au- thor pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 254 — [The 'Text' on which it is based is Gala- tians vi. 14.] ♦,* See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 116] It has been recently admirably re-printed under 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 Sergeant Shephard'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 Kevill Simmons Bookseller in Ke- dcrminster, and are to be sold by liim there ; and by Nathaniel Ekins at the Gun in Paul's Church- yard. Anno Dom. 1658 [4°]. Collation : Title-page— Epistle to Ser- jeant S. pp. 2 — Contents pp. 3 — errata on reverse of p. 3 — Treatise pp. 96. %• ' Finis ' is placed on p:ige 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- quia' [Lib. I. p. 117] Baxter refers to Bishop 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 un- derstood.' XXX. Confirmation and Res- \ tauration, the necessary means of * Reformation and Reconciliation : I 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 nnj awake and be ii|i aii4 doing s I 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. 165a [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 recnt collective edition of his Works by Taylor, sub nomine. 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 unity, whidi 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 aoo7'e, he 'drew up in Latin more largely' a 'judgment' how best to expedite ' Paci- fication.' XXX n. Of Justification : Four Disputations clearing and amica- I A 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 1 page — Treatise pp. 423. *♦* See ' Reliquiae '' [Lib. L 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 mv worthy friend Mr Gibbons of Black- Fryers — in whose church I ended my public ministry,' etc. etc. XXXHL 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. Collation : I'itle-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. iig. *»* 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. I. p. 113.] He says ' It was only the matter of fact which I undertook, viz., to prove that Grotius profest him.self 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. W^hether 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 profitable 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 22 Annotated List of the At Paul's Church-yard, 1659. 4s. 6d. bound [sm. 4°]. Collation: 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 I ministers in several parts of the 1 nation, whose hearers are turning I Separatists. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed by Robert White lor Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Kederminster. 1658. III. The Third Disputation for ■och sorts of Episcopacy or Dis- parity in exercise of the ministry, as is desirable or conducible to the peace and reformation of the Churches, f As before]. IV. The Fourth Disputation of a Form of Liturgy : how far it is necessary, desirable or warrant- a.ble : 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 Church, and how far they may be 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.' Calamy 'Account' Vol. I. p. 413- See Baxter's own fuller statement in ' Reliquije' [Lib. L pp. 117, n8]. XXXVI. A Key for Catholicks 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 Church 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--.. concerning tbis Second Edition, pp. 4. Epistle Dedicatory to Colonel James Berry, etc. pp. 38 [entitled ' The Epistle Monitory']. The Preface, pp. 39. The Contents, pp. 1 1 [all unpaged]. Treatise pp. 417. A Dialogue of Self-Denial (in verse) pp. 13 [unpaged]. Text [Luke ix. 23.24.] %*The Dialogue is often awanting. The foUowmg 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 Simmons, 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 '. i?.'^.'°f "« '. PP- 8. As noted above from , Fmis bemg placed on page 329 this Dialogue ' which is added, unpaged, is often amissing. *»*See ' Reliquias' [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- *\> jv 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. i^^^^n^'^"' T>t'e-Page. Dedication lo all those in the several! Parishes of these Nations that complain of the dis- agreements in matters of Religion ' pp: 29. TKe 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. • />^ t4 Annotated List of the fl XL Universal Concord. The first Part. The sufficient Terms proposed for the use of those who have the liberty 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. [i2°J. Collation: Title-page— to the Reader pp. 10. Ireatise, pp. 80. \* The only copy of this that I have anywhere traced is in the Bodleian, ac- quired since the printed Cataloffue was prepared. From the ' Reliquis' [Lib I PR- ,"9. 120], we learn that above was all that was published. 'When I wrote I thought to have published a second part i.,;k ■ ■ ■ '^M ^ ^'J^ change of the times ftath necessarily changed that purpose ' talamy assigns it to 1658: so that he can't have -^en it ; nor Orme who copies 1658. It IS difficult to account for its extreme scarcity. Others preceding the Fire of 1-ondon are frequently to be found. /- ^J^f. 7^^ ^™^ Catholick and Cathohck Church described and ! the vanity of the Papists and all I other Schismaticks that confine the Catholick Church to their' wet discovered and shamed. By Richard Baxter, a member of that one Universal Church which containeth all the true Christians m the world. With an apologeti- cal Postscript against the factions pnnciples and writings of 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 W- 6— Contents pp. 4— Treatise [from I Uonnthians xii. 12] pp. 275— Postscript pp. 277-33 I—Errata on reverse of paee 331- V See 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 112] Z ? ^V""^ account of the design of this book and a pungent notice of ' Mal- pas —Orme misdates this 1659. XLIL A Sermon of Repent- ance, preached before the Honour- able House of Commons assembled m Pariiament at Westminster at their late solemn Fa.st 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 m Pauls Church-yard. 1660 [4°]. Collation : Title-page— To House of Commons pp. 4— Sermon [Text xxxvi 31] pp. 47- *♦* ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. p. 120]. XLIII. 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 iMay 10, 1660, appointed by both Houses of Pariiament to be a day of solemn Thanksgiving for God's raising up and .succeeding his Ex- cellency and other instrument.s, 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 — fc-pistle Dedicatory to Lord Mayor/ etc. I PP- 4— Sermon [Luke x. 20J pp. 51. *«* ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. L p. 120J. . XL! V. The Life of Faith, as it IS the Evidence of things unseen. A Sermon preached [contractedly] Writings of Richard Baxter. ' ^li 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 Kedermin.ster. 1660. [4°J. Collation: Title-page — Address to Readers' i page— Sermon pp. 68 [Text, Hebrews xi. i.J ♦* This was subsequently very much enlarged and re-published as virtually a new book— See No. LIX. : 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. 120J. 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. IL 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 he sold by Francis Tyton at the three Dag- gers in Fleet-street. 1660 [i2°J. 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- 25 si ve 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 'Reliquiae' [Lib. L p. no] for account of this book. XLVL 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 [iic\ in Westminster before many mem- bers of the Honourable House of 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 Simmons Bookseller at Kederminster. 1660. At IS. bound. [18''.] Collation : Title-page-To the Reader PP- 7]— Postscript pp. 3— Contents pp. 5 —Treatise pp. 271 [' Text ' James i. 26! —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 ^y '^v, P""ted in the year 1660- [lext Proverbs 1. 32, 33]— Treatise pp. 275-340. *«* 'Reliquiae' [Lib. I. p. 120]. XLVn. A Petition for Peace : with the Reformation of the Li- wmmmim 26 Annotated List of the turgy. As it was Presented to the Kight Reverend Bishops by the Dmnes appointed by His Majes- ties Commission to treat with them about the alteration of it. London, Printed Anno Dom., i66i [4°J. Title-prige— Petition pp. 1-2, _« The Keiormation, pp. 22-102. V On this in the ' Reliquiae,' Baxter says After our Dispute at the Savoy somebody printed our Papers (most of them) given m to them in that Treaty : of which the Petition for Peace, the Re- formed i.itiirjjv ^except the Prayer for the king which Dr W. wrote^ the larze reply to their Answer of our Exceptions, and the last two Addresses, were my writing. But in the first Proposals and Ifte l:.xcepti()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- «•••. 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. H.. 1661 [40J. Collation: Title-page-A copy of his Alajestys commission 6 pp. [unpaged] Sd pj: 35-0«cunients, 2 pp. [unpaged] XLVHL The Mischiefs of Self- Ignorance and the Benefits of Self- Acquaintance ; Opened in divers Sermons at Dunstan's- West. And Published in answer to the Accusations of some and the Desires of others. By Rich- ard Baxter. London, Printed by R. White lor F. Tyton, at the three daggers in Fleet-street, 1662, at 2s. 6d. bound [12° J. Collation: Title-page— Epistle Dedi- catory to Anne Countess of Balcarres \sic\ with a Postscript pp. 46— Another r ™y <^«arly beloved the inhabitants ot the Burrough and Parish of Keder- mm-ster in Worcestershire,' pp 12— Con- tents pp. lo-Errata i page-Treatise logue of Boolcs written 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 m Answer thereunto. And some short Animadversions upon the said Bishop's Letter. London, Printed Anno Dom. 1662 [4°]. Collation .; Title-page-' To my deariy beloved the inhabtt;ints of the Burrough and I'arish 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 I'earson concerning a command of law- ful superiors, what was sufficient to its being a lawful command, page 10— 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 page25J 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 - .._^. „ ^■siiii.try 01 any Church so mercilessly handled. Baxter IS here specially terse and pungent in tiis 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 considering. 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. Francis Tyton, at the three dag- gers m Fleet-street, and Nevil IJimmons, Bookseller at Keder- minster, Anno Dom. 1662 [4°]. C^//a//V>«; Title-page-Dedication 'to my dearly beloved Friends, the inhabi- tants of Kederminster,' etc. pp. o-The Contents [of both Parts] pp. s-fh^ In- ?^"^''T,PP-,^3 [separate pagination] Treatise [from Luke x. 41, 42J pp 08— A Wi^ "t.^ followsr-'VsSnt 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. Particulariy inH-V',^"*' '• ^^^'^ Societies, 2. For .ndiyidual persons. And more distinctly, 1-1 hat It IS the only way of safety : 2 Of honesty : 3 The most graceful way : 4- The most honourable; 5. The most t"TL. ^n^ i!'^"^^^^^ ^' b^ <^hosen by all that will obey true reason and be &^" T^^*'".'^''"' P""ted Anno Dom. 1662. Treatise [same text] pp. 101-384. LL Besides the ' Farewell Ser- mon' [No. CXXVL] 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 hlls 24 pages—* Preached Aufnist 1 7. 1662. ' The text is Colossians 11. 6, 7. 27 LH. Fair Warning : or XXV Reasons against Toleration and Indulgence of Popery ; with the Arch-Bishopof Canterbury's Letter ^? ^^^iF^"g and all the Bishops of Ireland s Protestation to the Par- liament to the same purpose. With an Answer to the Roman Catho- licks reasons for Indulgence. Also the Excellent Reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against Indulgence; with His- toncal Observations thereupon. London, Printed for S. U. N T. F. S. 1663 [4°J. Collation: Title - page - Letter [as above] pp 2-Protestation [as above] pp 2- Appeal [signed John WigornJ pp. al. Twenty-five Reasons pp. I-23' [*;?gned Richard Baxter. Catholique]-An1wer ' l*^ above] pp. 23-32-The excellent Rea- sons [as above] pp. 33-39. **♦ This is also found as follows :— | I 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 Axr P^^^^^s^ 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 there- alter IS an « Appendix ' mis-paged 49-^, then 73-76, 'Finis' being ^am 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°J. Orme makes two distinct works ?^^^» drawing his description trom Hallam's Constitutional His- tory,' s. n. LHL 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 I 2m Annotated List of the tliree Daggers In Fleet-street, and Nevil Simmons Bookseller in Kederminster. 1664 [sm. 4°]. ColLition : Tit'e-page — S^^sebl tille for first part as follows: — 'A Freatise of the Knowledge of God and the impres- sion which it must tmke upon the heart ; and its necesiiary effects upon our lives. lJpt>u John xvii. 3.' By Richard Baxter. London fas 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 VV^alking with God. On Gen. v. 24.' By Richard B-ixter. London [as before] — the Contents pp. 3 — Treatise pp. 159- 991. A special title for third part as fol- |k»ws: — '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 o{ Ruinaine on the front fly- leaf, i *»• The general tltle-pa^e is often ' awanting. See ' Reliquiae ' [Lib. I. pp. \ iao-i2i] for very interesting autobio- I fraphic accoimt of this book : and of the [ portion which ' the Bishop''s chaplain' caused to be expunged.* LIV. Below [\o. LV.] is a • Second Sheet.' I have not been able to find a copy of the * First Sheet.' It is thus described in the *Reliquiie' [Lib. I. p. 122.] *! 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 ' su^ra 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 minster. Bookseller in 1665. [I2°J. Keder- Coilation : Title — and 14 pp. : dated * May 10, 1665.* •»* On my copy there is written on the title-page ' By Subscription at the London Coffee-house ' undated. See ' Reliqulx ' [Lib. I. p. 122J. 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 Somatistsand Epicureans and other Pseudo-phi- losophers. London, Printed by R. White for Fran. Titon at the three Daggers in Fleet-street. 1667. [4°J. ColhiL'on : Title-page — To the Chris- tian Reader pp. S— To the doubting and the unbelievmg readers pp. 7 — To the hypocrite readers pp. 7 — the Contents pp. 7 — Errata i page — Treatise pp. 604. V The 'Reliquia:' [Part III. p. 61] gives the occasion of this lucid and im- answerable book,which anticipates nearly all \-aunted modern objections — and refutes them. LVn. 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 IVritings of J^ichard Baxter. 29 Plagues and Flames and Church- Convulsions, have so long and loudly Preached to England. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed for Nevil Simmons at the Three CrouTis 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 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 61). ' This book came forth when I was in prison, being long before refused by Mr Grigg.' LVni. The Character of a Sound Confirmed Chri.stian, as also 2. Of a Weak Christian ; and 3. Of a Seeming Chri.stian. Writ- ten to imprint upon men's mir^ls 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 Holboni Conduit. 1669. [I2°J. 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, j 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. Collation: Portrait of Baxter ' JEtat 55, 1670' with long love-lock.s, mous- tache and imperial — curious engraved title-page (a reduction of that prefixed to the ' Saint's Everlasting Rest'y. [See No. 11. (7).]— Title-page as stt/ra — 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 J^eader asking his 'Holy Commonwealth ' for reasons assigned, to be regarded as non-scriptum [See No. XLIV.J 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 Sirnmons at the three crowns over against Holbom-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 1 page— books by Baxter, etc. p. 6. *♦* 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 {hem all in Chris- tian love. Written to detect and 30 Annotated List of the Writings of Richard Baxter. 31 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 Holbom Con- duit. 1 67 1 [or. 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- j 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 meddleth 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 'Reliquiae' [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- LAMV gives two * Defences ' for this one. LXII. 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 Holbom Conduit. 1671 [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 [i8°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 jnto error or doubting in both these points. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed for Nevil Simmons at the three Crowns near Holbom 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 Sabbath. Written since the Treatise went to the Press, upon the invitations of some latter objections. London [as before] — pp. 157-227 — Post- script pp. 229-23/. V ' Reliquia' [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.] • LXV. How far Holinesse is the Design of Christianity. Where the Nature of Holiness and Mb- 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 Holbom Conduit. 1671 [4°]. Collation : Title-page and pp. 24— At bottom of p. 22 date ' Aug. 24 (the fatal 9^y) 167 1.' On p. 23 • What Happiness is. What Holiness or virtue is. On p. 24 ' Holiness not fanatically proud or aspiring.' V See ' Reliquia: ' [Part III. p. 85] for notice of Fowler— Baxter excels in these etchings or sketches of character. LXV I. 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 liberally given him by Popish Princes: Opened by Richard Bax- ter. To the Learned and sincere LudovicusMolinoeusDr of Physick and Author of Jugulum Causce, Papa Ultrajectinus, and other books on this subject. For the Vindication of the tme 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 the three Crowns near Holbom Conduit. 1671. [4°]. Collation : Title-page— To the Reader pp. 2. Treatise pp. 59. %* See ' Reliquia' [Part III. p. 85] for a characteristic notice of the occasion of this treatise. LXVIL 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 Holbom 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 untmths 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 tme 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 for Nevill Simmons at the Three Crowns near Hol- bom Conduit. 167 1. [8°]. Collation : Title-page. Contents pp. 7. Treatise pp. 188. Postscript pp. 188-190. fly-leaf 1 page about misquota- tion on Cromwell. VSee 'Reliquiae' [Part IIL 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 Be VeritaU-, F i\ 3t 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 I^ndon 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 ■s learned and ingenious a person Mr George Herbert orator to the University l»f 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 m 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 'Reliquia:' [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 Funeral 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 laid 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 Conn- thians xv. 26] pp. 14^. ' 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 139 a lew errata. *,* See • Reliquiae [Part III. 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- tion as ' Preachers.' LXXIL 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-]. J Writings of RicJiard Baxter, 33 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 * Reliquia:' [Part IIL 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 Militant 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— m 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 Repl^ 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 kid 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 wrangle here in the dark, we are dying and passing to the world that will decide all our controz' 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.' Calamy, 'Account,' Vol. I. p. 416. Sec 'Rehquix,' [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 Veprinted for the use of all. 1673.' %* British Museum copy has by a contemporary ' for the ' erazed and ' who by ' inserted, as f»/m. Query 'those?' See ' Reliquiae ' [Lab. I. p. 121]. LXXVL 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 Refonned 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 othcn», 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 1 some fitter Book. Writings of Richard Baxter, 35 1 1 ^'j i4«|lliMIH|«|IMMIIf|l 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 published 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°). Collation: Title-page — 'Appeal' PP- 6. *»* 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 ?refixed : as one called Mr Baxter's )irections 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 Contentions of Christians I page. Then a separate title-page as follows : — ' Catholick Theologie: The first Boqk. 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^'ree- will. Redemption, Justification, Faith, Merit, Works, Certainty of Salvation, Perseveraacc, and many others. In three Parts. I. Of God's nature, know- 36 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. iJondon [as in gmeral 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 mpra ( I )— Separate title-page to tst Part — The Contents pp. 2 — Errata I page — pp. 136. Then — (/J) The Second Part : Of God's Covemment 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— (r) 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 Sync^ists 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 PVee 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. %* See ' Reliquiae' [Part Til. 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 continumce 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. Dan vers against the antiquity of infant bapti.sm and of his many calumnies against myself and wTitings. With a catalogue of fifty-six new commandments and Writings of Richard Baxter. 37 jT doctrines which he and the sec- 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 1675. [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 ante — book advt. V See ' Reliquiae' [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 'Aloming 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. II. Of original sin, as from our neerer parents. Written long ago for a more private use ; and now published — 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- ¥irtial friends of sacred truth pp. 64— reatise pp. 65-245. LXXXI I L 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. LXXXIV. 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 Tullie'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 Published in- stead of a fuller Answer to the Assaults in Dr Tullie's Justijuatio 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 Objections, especially of Dr Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occa- sioneth the publication of this. By Richard Baxter a compassionate Lamenter of the Churches woimds 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- 3» Aiimtated List oft/ie 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. CartAvright of York, on my Aphorisms' pp. 294. Postscript pp. 8. (4- ) The Substance of Mr Cart- WTight's Exceptions considered. By Rich. Baxter. London [as liefore]— pp. 3-69. Postscript on Mr Dangers pp. 70-79. LXXXV. Rich. Baxter's Re- \-iew of the State of Christians Infants. Whether they should be entered in the Covenant with God by Baptism and be A-isible 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 bv the importunity- of Mr E. Hutchinson land of ^fr Danvers and Mr Tombes) who called him to this Review in order to his Retracta- tion. An unpartial reading is kumbly r guested of those dis- 'senters who would not be found despisers of holy truth nor such as f" idge before they hear. London, rinted for Nevil Simons at the Frinces Arms in Pauls Church- yard. 1676. [cr. 8=.] Ci>ilatiage. *»* 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 Morahty. 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 'Reliquiae' [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 Horslev 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. Yin- 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 — fText Acts XX. 24J.. I 'I "w Kii g i i w gqgingn 40 Annotated List of tJie XCVI. WTiicli ii lite 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. I^ndon, Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway in Butcher-hall lane. 1679 [4°]. Collation : Title-page — Preface pp. 4 — Treatise pp. 168— (At page 100 the pagination passes to lai by misprint]. XCVII. The Nonconformist's Plea for Peace : or an Account of their Judgment in certain things in which they are ^ misunderstood : 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 linst the Stocks-Market 1679 n Collation : Title-page — ' To the reve- rend Conforming Clergy' pp. 10 — Con- tents, etc. pp. 2 — Treatise pp. 340 — Errata i page — books pubd. by Alsop x V Sec 'Reliquiae' [Part III. 180- 187.1 XCVIII. A True Believer's Choice and Pleasure. Instanced in the Exemplary Life of Mrs Mary Co.xe, 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°J. Collation: Title-page— Dedication to Dr Thomas Coxe pp. 3 — On reverse. Errata — Sermon pp. 65 — fl'ext 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 Comhill. 1 680 [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— Ft. I. pp. 133— Pt. IL pp. 135-327 — Pt. IIL 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 the Pemva- sive to Conformity. 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 Writings of Richard Baxter. 41 Friend concerning the In- dulgence 167^, 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 p.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 [unpagedj and pp. 344. The Baxter por- tion pp. 200. V See 'Reliquiae' [Part IIL p. 90] for a short notice of Hinckley and his tactics. CI I. 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 Sects 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 en.e- mies to the King. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed for John Han- cock at the three Bibles near the Royal Exchange in ComhilL 1680. Collation : Title-page — The Preface pp. 22 [Signed R. e., no doubt a misprint forR. B.]— The Contents, etc. 'of this Extorted and Distorted Treatise ' pp. 4 — Treatise pp. 204. \* No. LXXXVII. to LXXXIX. are often found along with this agl^eably 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. CIII. A Moral Prognostication. I. What shall befall the Churches on earth till that Concord, by the Restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity 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 of light 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. *#* 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 ■'•■«• ■ • ■<* ' ■ •^m 42 Annotated List of the Chapel' See 'Reliquiae' [Part III. p. 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- siesr and schismes. V. Who would know the tnith 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. Griffin, and are to be sold by Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street, and John ! Kidgell at the Atlas in Comhil 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 page 10 ' a notice concerning Mr Henry Dodwell —Con- tents pp. 25— Books pubd. by Simmons I page — Treatise pp. 4S8. 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 ; IH. 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°]. CollatioH : Title-page — The Preface pp. 5 — and pp. 8-roo — Appendix [un- paged] pp. 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]. C VI. 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 1671 and cast by: published 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 lawful 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. 1 t— 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 'Reliquiai' [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 Coimterminer, H. Fowlis, Dr Good, 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. *^* 'Reliquiae^ [Part III. p. 188.] CVIH. 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, i68t. 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. 1681. Cailatiim: Title-page. Postscript pp. a. Treatise pp. 44. %• * 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- po.ssibility 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. Vamey's Phanatic Prophesie. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed for Jacob Samp- son, next to the Wonder Tavern in Ludgate-Street. 1681. [8°.] Callatian: Title-page— the Preface pp. 7.— books pp. 2. Answer to Hinck- le>-i pp. S. .» t V 'Rcliquiat' [Part III. p. 189!. CXVHL A Sermon preached at the Funeral of that Htithful minister of Christ Mr John Corl>et. With his true and e.vctnplary Character. By Richard Baxter. London, Printed for Thonvis Parkhurst at the JJible and three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside. 1682. [sm. 4°]. Colin/ion : Titlc-p.t;;c— Sermon [from 2 Lorinlhians .vu. i-<)\ pp. 36, and i pace givmg hsl of C.'s wntinjjs. CXIX. The I^-ist Work of a IJeliever. 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 Chariton, Esq., and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq. : and partly preached at St Mary ^Lag. dalens Church in Milk-street, London. And now, at the desire of her daughter, l)cfore her death, reprinted. Wy Richard IJaxter. London, Printed by R Grifiin for IJ. Simmons at the three Golden Cocks, at the West-end of St PauLs. 16S2. [40.] Collntion : Tittc-p.iRc— The Contents pp. 2— In the kc-idcr pp. 12— Sermon pp. 79- (Text Acts vii, jq). ♦ *. ' Rcliquijc ' [Lib. I. p. 120]. CXX. Compassionate Counsel to all Young Men, especially L London Apprentices. H. Students U of Divinity, Physick and Law. HI. The sons of. magistrates and rich men. Ry Richard Baxter; I^ndon, Printed by '1*. S. and arc to be sold by 15. Simmons and Jonalh. Creenwo«ru.iui. i iiavc an euition ot itoo which has primed on the titJc-pase the cift of the Author '— ' Printed for J. Liint- Icy at the Three Bibles in PortuRal- strect near Lincolns-Inn-Ficlds.' Sec *Keliquix'[PsutIlL p. 190]. CXXL 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°j. Collation: Title-page — 'To the truly Christian merchants and other citizens of London ' pp. »— Treatise pp. 48. [Text Galatians vi. xo]. CXXH. 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 rei>ly to Dr Henry Moore's [More] Animad- versions on a private Ixittcr 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. [i2°j. Collation : Title-page — the Preface fp. 6— Separate title 'The Nature and mmorulity of the Soul proved. In answer to one who profcssctl pernlcxirtg doubtfulness. Ily kiclmrd Toxicr. London fas before)— pp. 3-72. Separate ^•de — * 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— Trcati-sc 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 Cheai)sidc near Mercers Chappel, and Ji. Simmons at the Three Golden Cocks at the West-end of St Pauls. 1683. [8°]. Collation: Portrait 1674— Title-page — Kcasons and use of the l>ook pp. 10— Contents pp. 3— Errata and books pubd. I page— Treatise pp. 439— Books pubd. I page. *»• ' Reliquia: ' [Part IIL p. 191]. CXX IV. 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 ICsq. the Publisher of his Contemplations and his familiar friend, and published by the ur- gency of others. London, Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens- head-alley in Paternoster-row. 16S2. [12^] Collation: Title-page— To the Reader pp. 9— Note I page — ^"treatise pp. 45. CXXV. A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience practically resolved by sundry mmistcrs 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°]. Scrm. 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 : Cro.ss-bcarers less to be pityed than G ^11 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 Gibs, at the sign of the Ball in Chancery- Lane 1683. [12°.] CoUatiofi : Title-page — the Preface pp. 6. Contents pp. 4. Treatise pp. 288. %* Extremely rare and valuable as 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.!6. Sentences on Love, Death etc. pp. 2. The Introduction [unpaged] pp. 16. Treatise pp. 259. Appendix pp. •60-357. Short NIeditations on Romans ▼• 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 : •nd 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 great success. In Five Parts. L 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- tbn 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 Pansh-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 III. pp. 197, 198]. Orme divides aboz>e into five distmct 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 BroMTiists, 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 Catholick Communion once more Defended upon men's neces- sitating importunity. By Richard 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]. Or.me makes Jour separate works of aboz'e. CXXX II. 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. CXXXIII. The Judgment of the late Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, of the nature of True Religion, 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 III. pp. 47, 175, 181. CXXXIV. ' Unum Necessari' Jim: The One Thing Necessary or Christ's Justification of Mary's Choice and of his Servants wrong- so Annotated List of the fully accused, 1685. Calamy : 'Account,' Vol. I. Y 420. *»* 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 1838J : alsoORME, 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 Cro^vus 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 p.aged, 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 aetat suas 70'— a Postcript 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 tnal' before Judge Jeffreys — for the Paraphrase,' etc. etc. — immortal. . CXXXVL R. Baxter's Sence of the Subscribed Articles of Religion. London, Printed fori Ben. Cox next door to the Dog- ' Tavern in Ludgate-street, i68q Collation: Half-title— and pp. j2— imprint at end. CXXXVIL A Treatise of Knowledge and Love compared. In two parts I. Of falsely pretend- ed knowledge IL Of tnie saving knowledge and love. I. Against hasty judging and false conceits of knowledge and for necessary sus- pension, n. 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 t 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, scomers, opposers and persecutors of serious Obedience to God, not to Writings of Richard Baxter. SI 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. Collation : Portrait — Title-page —To the Reader pp. n dated thus 'August 24. ^1689) The fatal Day of Silencing in tngland m 1662.' Treatise pp. 146. See • Reliquia ' [Part HL 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°.] ^ Collation : 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]. Collatioit: Separate title— The Pre- face pp. 5. The Prologue pp. 8. The Contents pp. 5. Treatise pp. ii6. (2.) A Defence of Christ and Free Grace : against the Sub- verters 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 ft Annotated List of the on the Occasion of the reviving of those Errours and tne 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 ^rercers- Ghapel. 'J 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. Bctoks pubhshed by Parkhurst i page. Extremely rare. CXL. The English Noncon- formity as under King Charies II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued. By Richard Baxter. Who earnestly beseecheth Rulers and Clergv', not to Divide and De- stroy the Land, and cast their ou-n 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 Begger)', and to Lie and Die in Jails as Rogues, and so to strengthen Profanene-ss, 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 Tho. Park- burst 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. ^^e Contents pp. 4. Treatise pp. 304. » On last page a pungent Note of the vahant old man, headed * England's Slavery,' CXLL 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 Com- hih 1 69 1, [fc. 8°.] Collation : Title-page — The Preface PP-^The Contents pp. 4— Books pubd. by Salisbury 1 page— Treatise, Prelimi- nary chap. I. pp. xxxiv. — and pp. 320. V See ' Reliquia ' [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 loco 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 Cro\\'ns, 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 CrovvTis in Cheapside and J. Salus- bury at the Rising Sun near the Royal Exchange in Comhill. 1691 [cr. 8°J. 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. * * 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. Feb. 20, 169?. 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 1661 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— 1'he 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 whd 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 owTi 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 suspltion which the French and innovators injuriously seek to fasten on them. London, Printed for Tho. Park- hurst at the Bible and Three CrouTis at the lower end of Cheap- side near Mercers Chapel. 1691. Collation : Title-page— Epistle Dedi- S4 Annotated List of the catory to 'Tniotson* then Dean of St Pauls pp. 7— To the Reader pp. ,_ 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. 36a- CXLVII. Church Concord : containing I. A Dissuasive 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 C'hnstians. The first Part written 1655. The second Part 1667. And published this 1691. To second a late Agreement of the London Protestant Nonconfor- mists : and a former treatise called "IHie 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]. CoUatian: 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 «eal and Church tyranny. By Richard Baxter, a servant of the God of love and etace. London [as before]' — To the eader, dated ' Acton Nov. 21 1688 ' J page— Treatise Pt. II. pp. 62. CXLVIIL 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*J. Collation: Title-page -a Letter to Mr Baxter pp. 2— the Preface pp. 6— 1 realise pp. S^-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 Svlvester. Lon- don : Printed for John Salusbury at the Rising Sun over against the Royal Exchange in Comhili, 1692 [12"]. Collation: Title-page-To the Reader P?r^?~^*^"'®"^'' PP- 3— Advt. of B's Life on reverse of last leaf— Treatise ^\- i°5 — Errata on page 185, before J^"'ch 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*^ 0//^/w«; Title-page— and pp. 46. _# Ihis hltle 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 fof the Press under his own Writings o^ Richard Baxter. 55 I 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. CLI I. 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 Comhili. 1 693 [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. CLI 1 1. 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 Alat- 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 ' Reliquise ' [Lib. I p. 123.] CLIV. Reliqui^ Baxteri- A'SM : 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 [folio]. . Collation: Portrait by White— Title- page — Epistle Dedicatory to Sir Henry Ashurst pp. 2 — the Preface pp. 18 — Contents pp. 6 — Lib. I. Pt. I. and II. pp. 448 — Part III. pp. 200 — Appendix pp. 132. *4(.* 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 ' Reliquia; ' [Notes on English Divines pp. 5-119 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. CLVII. 'The Mother's Cate- chism or a Familiar way of Cate- n 5^ Writings of Richard Baxter. chizing Children in the Knowledge of God, themselves and the Holy Scnptures 1701. 8vo. Calamy ; Account' Vol. I. page 421, •«* I have not been able to see this except m the modem reprints e. g. in Practical Works Vol. IV. pp. ..X ? Vols, royal 8vo. 1838] : Preface by Syl- CLVm. Short Meditations on Romans v. 1-5. . V« ^ ^^^ "o' seen this. It is eiven 7 %7'^T'^ ^^rks' 4 vols. royJ'lZ Vol. III. pp. 1063-1068] : also by Orme. ■^ ». ^--LIX* Of Redemption of ;/,^,tJiME. ♦ ihayenotmetwiththiseither.lt isgivenas mCLVIII. [Vol. IV. pp. 1037- 1042] : also by Orme. ^^ ^' |J^J,^°*'? ""^ ^Y^^.\ ^^ ^"^o^^' are taken liwn the original collected edition of the Practical Works 4 vols, folio 1707 : but are undated. I suspect they were oISS ""^ 'Prefaces' to b(ioks by . CLX. and CLXT. I did not insert the following in their places because not having found either I am doubtful of their Baxterian authorship : — (I.) The invaluable Price of an Immortal Soul. London. i68i. o . (2.) Preparations for Sufferings: a bermon. London. 1683. 8^ These were once in Williams' Library: but have long been amissing. They appear in the Catalogue of 1841 [Vol. II.l sub nomine. ,^::Tr^-^ ^^^^^ ««^^: Orme ex- tends h.s List to 168 but this he does by repeatedly giving component parts of a m^''f'v V v'^r^P*"^^"^- tSee i^der Nos. III., {--^AAL, etc. etc., in our I,ist]. ihis he did as merely copvine from Calamy or Book-Catalogues. He oS a number as well as inaccurately de- scribes those included. We corfectly describe >^,« acfjuil copies all given by hini: and others unknown to him and other Bibliographers. 'Our Pre- fatory Note ' explains that we hope to enumerate m a larger Work Baiters Prefaces or Epistles.' translations of his Writings contemporary and later, the many volumes and tractates called forth m controversy with or concerning him and of his Manuscripts. I have ear- nestly to request the co-operation of all overs of Baxter in helping me to make o Er^"^ supplement as complete as ttt Baxter like Bunyan repudiates various publications that took his name, ^. Rules and Directions for Family Duties etc. etc. etc. A copy of thes^ Rules' (a foUo sheet) is^^In British Museum. Cmn:rord&- M'Caie. Prmters, 7 George Street, Edinlmrgh. '%■■ Books by the REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, Prince's Road United Presbyterian Church, Liverpool. I. L Original. Small Sins. 3d edn., with additions, royal l6mo, qloth antique, price IS. 6d., pp. 119. 2. Jesus Mighty to Save : or Christ for all the World and all the World for Christ. 3d edn., with additions, royal i6mo, cloth antique, pp. 204, price 2s. 3. The Prince of Light and the Prince of Darkness in Conflict : or the Temptation of Jesus. Newly Translated, Explained, Illustrated and Applied. Crown 8vo, pp. xxxiv. and 360, price 5s. [New and much enlarged Edition in preparation.] 4. The Lambs All Safe : or the Salvation of Children. 3d ed., with considerable additions, i8mo, cloth antique, price is. 5. Drowned : a Sermon in Memorial of the Death by drowning in Loch- leven of Mr John Douglas. 3d edn. (3CXX)) cr. 8vo, price 4d. 6. The Blind Beggar by the Wayside : or Faith, Assurance and Hope. 32mo, 4th edn., price i^. For enclosure in letters. *»* Translated into EfSk by William Anderson, Old Calabar, W. Africa, 12°. 7. Joining the Church : or Materials for Conversations between a Minister and intending Communicants. l8mo, cloth antique, price IS., 2d edn. 8. The Helper of Joy, 2d edn., i8mo, cloth antique, price is. 9. Recollections of Prayer-Meeting Addresses on Some of the Questions and Prayers of the Bible. 10. Thoroughness. 11. Tears or Consolation for * The Poor in Spirit.' IS* Sundays at Sea : or What God says of the Sea and Sailors. [Nos. 9 to 12 in preparation]. 13. Memoir of Richard Sibbes, D.D. %\o {See below). 14. Memoir of Thomas Brooks, author of * Precious Remedies,' etc. etc. 8vo {See belaid). 15. Memoir of Herbert Palmer, B.D. 8vo {See bcloav). 16. Memoir of Henry Airay, D.D. (prefixed to reprint of his Com- mentary on Philippians). 4to. 17. Memoir of Thomas Cartwright, B.D. (prefixed to reprint of his Commentary on Colossians). 4to. 18. Memoir of John King, D.D., Bishop of London (prefixed to re- print of his Commentary on Jonah). 4to. 19. Memoir of John Rainolds, D.D. (prefixed to reprint of his Com- mentaries on Obadiah and Haggai). 4to. 20. Memoir of Richard Stock (prefixed to reprint of his Commentary on Malachi). 4to. 21. Memoir of Samuel Torshell (prefixed to reprint of his Exercitation on Malachi). 4to. 22. Memoir of Richard Bernard, B.D. (prefixed to his Exposition of Ruth). 4to. 23. Memoir of Thomas Pierson (prefixed to reprint of his Exposition of 'Select Psahns'). 4to. Books by the ReiK A. B. Grosart. 31- 32. ' Hymns" Sc <-^'''' '"''^^ """'°' "^ ' O^e to Cuckoo,' 27. Hymns. (For prwatt tirculatun). Royal 32mo. Preacher of Gmv's Inn I „„V^"'"^ ^""l^ Cambridge, and ^ T^ WO.S, wUHYi:n!-;a^nS., a^^Bi'^^re^. "^ ^NotlrVst'fsr'J™'^' ^"^ «--. Int'oducion and 6uss»trec:;t' z^k^^ci; to ''r^,"^^'-" ^- Illustrations.) " '*™' 3s- 6d. (Portrait and ^'^^lZ%t^^Z^'7^'?''^'Tj^^^^---' Being B-D. ^ith IntroduTot MloiT't',:- .„'Lw„7 ''^''""• paper, with Portrait, 8vo 10s fid ,X^ -PP™""- ^'^Se paper cr 8vo, 3s 6d. :' .50 Vwk ~ '"P'" °"'^ = '■-" before his death, to be^mme dttdv nrinf ^?^''"''; ^ *'^ ^"^^ souls. 1692. immediately pnnted for the good of y UnkfunvH to Biographers and Bibliographers cr 8vo re Tracta^lThttlLnV-st'Ti^^t? °3l";: ^^^^nh^^ paper 5s. "• 34, 3s. od : thick 36. The Poems and Translations in Verse nndudincr v\(,^ „• u-.i, unpublished Epigrams, etc.) of ThomarFiUl^^^ Cfsvr tZ^r^ '^'^''^ wirintroduaion'a'id Note's' from^^S. 5s. to^^xo. xos ?'• ' S d^'^SoifsVr ^H '''^'^ i" ^^^ book-market Punishment: another, the ' Paneryr?ck ^^ cS. ' Vr^T'^ ^5?^"^ Besides these there are all his Versef nnH xi" i l^' ^K ^""""^ ^2, 2s. to £3, ,5. 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