The extrinsical and intrinsical difficulties of the Christian faith, altogether amounting to the number of forty, are resolved _seriatim_, and the refutation is extended over nearly one hundred pages, concluding with a long and devout address to the Deity--somewhat after the manner of Augustine’s confessions--in which the Puritan Presbyter pours out his soul in strains not less devout and eloquent than those of the patristic Bishop. [Sidenote: PURITAN WORKS ON EVIDENCES.] In 1672 Baxter returned to the subject, and published _More Reasons for the Christian Religion and No Reason against it_, in which he answers the _De Veritate_[516] of Lord Herbert, the first of our English deistical writers. The author dedicates his work to Sir Henry Herbert, a relative of the philosopher, and makes a graceful allusion to Sir Henry’s brother,--the “excellently holy, as well as learned and ingenious,” Mr. George Herbert. Baxter also wrote two treatises on the Immortality of man’s soul, the nature of it, and of other spirits. And also a most singular production, entitled, “The certainty of the world of spirits fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions, and witchcraft’s operations, voices, &c.--proving the immortality of souls, the malice and misery of devils, and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified--written for the conviction of Sadducees and Infidels.” This treatise was not printed until the year 1691--a short time before Baxter’s death,--but its illustrations and arguments are akin to those which, forty years earlier, he had introduced into his incomparable _Saint’s Everlasting Rest_. Baxter leads the van of the great army of our Christian _Apologists_ as they have been infelicitously termed. The armour which the veteran wore was made after the fashion of the times--the weapons which he wielded, and which he had forged, are some of them not such as would be serviceable now, and all of them, as used by him, are unsuited to our methods of defence; his wisdom also, it must be admitted, was occasionally defective in his modes of attack, yet no small honour is due to the man who was the first to enter the lists in English literature against the infidelity of his day. [Sidenote: PURITAN THEOLOGY.]