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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

William Lamont
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
William Lamont
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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In editing this text for the modern reader certain principles were followed. Baxter's ‘Theses’ were retained in their entirety; the additional comments upon each only when they added fresh material. The omissions were indicated in the conventional way. There are arguments for and against retaining the original spelling, but it was decided in this case not to modernise it. Nevertheless there are many obvious original printer's errors which it would have been pedantic to preserve – e.g. ‘everlastiug’ for ‘everlasting’ – and these have been silently corrected, rather than choosing to impose a rather wearying (for the reader) repetition of ‘sic’. Either Baxter, or his printer, got confused with the numbering. There are sometimes, for instance, 1, 2 and 4, and the 3 has been forgotten. Again the decision was taken to correct silently. Italicising in the seventeenth century was not an exact art. The bulk of the text has, therefore, been printed in ordinary roman type, and italicisation has been retained only for genuine emphasis, for foreign words and quotations, and for titles of books. Although many of the original typographical conventions have been preserved, along with the spelling, these have not been observed when they are outside the modern typesetter's apparatus. Where the original printer had used 1, 2, 3 in lists of numbered points, an arabic 1 (instead of a roman numeral) is used to begin the series of numbers.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1994

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