Cancellans for a section of An End of Doctrinal Controversies : autograph manuscript.

A typed note previously housed with the item (now in the Collection File) describes it as "[t]he manuscript of an Address to the Reader, which a search of the tables of contents and prefaces of the 23 volumes of Baxter's works for a work with chapters 28-31 and appendix described, has failed to identify. The chapter described at the end of the text appeared as 'The Certainty of the World of Spirits', London, 1691." More recent research, cited below, suggests that this page is a cancellans meant to be inserted in Baxter's An End of Doctrinal Controversies (1691) and created while the book was at the press. Charlton and Searle also argue that the manuscript of the chapters thus cancelled is at the British Library, cataloged as Egerton 2570. None of the chapters in Egerton 2570 re-appear in the The Certainty of the Worlds of the Spirits, but there is a reference in the manuscript that may be an allusion to that treatise.