continued to preach until his death on 30 October 1713 at the age of 82. He was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's. Writings Barret was a prolific writer. Many of his books were about leading a Christian life, examples being The Christian Temper, or, A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Properties of the Graces of Sanctification (1678), and The Evil and Remedy of Scandal, a Practical Discourse on Psalm Cxix.Clxv (1711). The latter called at length for full and proper obedience to God's law, but underlined that penitents should be received back into fellowship wholeheartedly. As a believer in infant baptism, Barret entered into a controversy with Thomas Grantham (1634–1692), which resulted in Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism (1675) and Much in a little, or, An abstract of Mr. Baxters plain scripture-proof for infants church-membership or baptism: with a few notes upon the anti-queries of T[homas] G[rantham] (1678). He saw infant baptism as the child's birthright. Other polemical works sometimes attributed to him may have been written by Vincent Alsop. Other works by Barret included Good Will towards Men, or a treatise of the covenants, viz., of works and of grace, old and new. By a lover of truth and peace (1675), Away with the Fashion of this World. Come, Lord Jesus. Being a small legacy of a dying minister to a beloved people (1713) and Reliquiæ Barretteanæ, or select sermons on sundry practical subjects (Nottingham, 1714). References 1631 births 1713 deaths 17th-century English clergy 17th-century Presbyterian ministers 18th-century English clergy 18th-century Presbyterian ministers English Presbyterian ministers of the Interregnum (England) English religious writers 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English male writers 18th-century English writers Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge English male non-fiction writers People from Nottingham People from Sandiacre