A POST-SCRIPT To the former Answer: Containing The Exchange of Letters between Dr. Heylyn and Dr. Barnard, tonching the intended burning of the book called Re∣spondit Petrus: With that which followed thereupon.

51. MY Answer long enough before, must be made longer by this Post script; because I would not leave you (M. Baxter) without full sa∣tisfaction to every point you have objected in your Letter, or keep you longer in suspense then needs I must. You gave some glances in your Letter of the burning of Books for which you had no ground in either of the places you refer me to, where you find nothing at all touching the burning of the books of the Sabbatarians, but only of the suppressing and cal∣ling of them in, which made me apt enough to think (as I told you then) that you intended that for a private nip relating to a book of mine called Respondit Petrus, which was publickly noised abroad to have been pub∣lickly burnt in London (as indeed the burning of it was severely prosecuted, though it scaped the fire. A full account whereof being too long to be incorpora∣ted into the body of that Answer I promised then to give you in a place by it self. And therefore I have writ this Post-script to make good that promise. I wish you too well to suffer you to remain long in Page  98 any errour which I am able to remove, or to be wrought upon by any false rumours and reports which I am able to disperse; and as I have endeavou∣red the first in all my applications to you, so I shall now endeavour the last, that I may disperse the o∣thers also. And this I shall the rather do, that I may, Duos parletes una fidelia dealbare, as in the La∣tine, or, Kill two birds with one Stone, in the English Proverb. My satisfying you in this publique man∣ner will much contribute to the undeceiving of such others also, who either out of too much credulity in themselves, or dis-affection toward me, have been as apt to report as they were easie to believe it. Many such I have had the chance to meet with, as well at London as elsewhere, in whom this Fame had taken so deep a root that I could hardly pluck it up; Some of them whom I endeavoured to perswade to a dis-belief of that false report, conceiving rather that I rather spake favourably for my selfe, then ad∣vantagiously and impartially for the truth of the fact. And if those persons whom I met with were so hardly satisfied, when they heard the story from my self, how much more hardly could such others re∣ceive satisfaction who live farther off, and could have it only from my friends But beside this there was another motive to induce me to it, and that is the preventing of all such as possibly may make use of that report to my disadvantage; For where∣as Mr. Sanderson (in the end of his Post Haste, scur∣rilous Pamphlet called the Reply, &c. hath used some threats, That, whensoever I shall appear armed again, he will be ready to meet me at my own weapon, be it sharp or smooth) he will be apt to catch at any thing which may serve his turn, without examining Page  99 the truth, or enquiring into the certainty of it. The like measure I may chance to have from some others also, who speak as big, and threaten me as much as he, but threatened men live long, they use to say, so perhaps may I, and sure I am, that none of these threatnings will prevail so far upon me, as to shorten the number of those dayes I have to come, for your sake therefore and for theirs, I have drawn up a full and perfect Narrative of the whole business in this manner following.