Note EC — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 2)

See Matthew Sylvester's Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or the Life of Richard Baxter, book i. part i. l. 213, p. 32: "To despise earth is easy to me; but not so easy to be acquainted and conversant in Heaven. I have nothing in this world which I could not easily let go: but to get satisfying apprehension of the other world is the great and grievous difficulty."

See also Wordsworth's note, p. 387.—ED.