49Z) Theft are all my;bargains and mygains. And I chofe thehoñeïteft Book.. fellers that IFou1d meet witkr,according to my finali meafure of wit and ace quaintancer; who told nie, they (till made good their` romifes. And now cenfòr ions Slanderer, tell ¡ne, what thou wouldit have had metohave done more ? If I had got Food andRayment out of myownhard labors, . had it been unlawful or difhonourable, when Bookfellers get fo many hundred pounds by one Book, that never ftudied nor fpent their time and coil for it , as I havedone ? Anlí yet dolt thou reproach-411e".thatreceive not a groat But becaufe I will`nor oblige my felf'to the fámecoui-fe forthe future, and that,thounmayft,knowat wha[rates_I feiv,e the,, let me tell thee, that in there labors early and late my body is wafted,my precious time laid our and fomewhat of my Eftate, and - fomewhat of the labor of my friends. I can- not have twentyquire of mywritingwell tranfcribed , under fiftypounds. And who (hall pay for this, or maintain me in thy fervice ?, I have troubled aNeighbour-Minifter in . the tedious work of tranfcribingmy Chat-afters ( for forne books,) for which, neither he nor I hadever one penny. Thefe perfonal'matters are unfavory tome, and Ì rake it for agreat injury that thou putteft upon me a neceflityof mentioning them. But I have yielded thisonce tothy unrighteous importunity , thatthou mayen hereafter learn what to believe andutter, and make more confcience of thy cenfures and reports. And that thou mayft have theutmoft reliefthat I can procure thee for the time to come, I fhail agree with my Bookfellers,, to fell all that I publifhat three farthings a fheer,and toprint the price'ofevery book it time bottomof the Title page. Fdrexr`Il. '. OF.lober .d I. I658. `Richard Baxter.
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