Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

Thirdly, The Publication.

1. The Author wrote it for this End. 2. He left it with me to be published after his Death. 3. He left it to the Judgment of another and my self only, by a Writing ordered to be given me after his Death, as my Directory about the Publication of his other Manuscripts, which are many, and of moment. And if th• rest entrusted with me about their being printed (one or two of which he ordered me to choose ad libitum, as fitly supposing all might not be at leisure) shall think fit (of whose consent I nothing doubt) you may expect a considerable Volume of Letters by way of Epistolary Intercourse betwixt him and Mr. Lawson, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Vines, Mr. Gataker, Mr. W. the Lord Chief Justice Hales, Mr. Samuel Jacomb, Mr. Dodwell, his dear Flock and Friends at Kidderminster, with several others. These Letters are Polemical, Casuistical, and Practical. Some are Monitory and Reproving: but their Names forbidden to be mentioned. Which Order shall faithfully be by me observed• Non enim me min•s obseq•• quam […] con•ilij p•niter. If we may find Encouragement, I doubt not of the Reader's considerable Satisfaction and Advantage. But (to return to where I left) 4. He had ⟨image 10⟩neither Time nor Strength to finish it; nor to correct it with his own Hand. Such therefore as it is, you have it. 5. He brought it down (not long before he died) to publish it, but upon second Thoughts he changed that purpose, as his Bookseller since his Death assured me. 6. I have reason to think that the Author had some thoughts to have made further Progress in this History, but that other things diverted him therefrom, till his Death at last made that impossible.

1. The Author wrote it for this End. 2. He left it with me to be published after his Death. 3. He left it to the Iudgment of another and my self only, by a Writing ordered to be given me after his Death, as my Directory about the Publication of his other Manuscripts, which are many, and of moment. And if th rest entrusted with me about their being printed (one or two of which he ordered me to choose ad libitum, as fitly supposing all might not be at leisre) shall think fit (of whose consent I nothing doubt) you may expect a considerable Volume of Letters by way of Epistolary Intercourse betwixt him and Mr. Lawson, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Vines, Mr. Gataker, Mr. W. the Lord Chief Justice Hales, Mr. Samuel Iacomb, Mr. Dodwell, his dear Flock and Friends at Kidderminster, with several others. These Letters are Polemical, Casuistical, and Practical. Some are Monitory and Reproving: but their Names forbidden to be mentioned. Which Order shall faithfully be by me observed Non enim me mins obseq quam conilij pniter. If we may find Encourgement, I doubt not of the Reader's considerable Satisfaction and Advantage. But (to return to where I left) 4. He had