When Barrow died on 4 May 1677, only one of his sermons, The Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor, had appeared; he had also sent to the press, but did not live to see published, Upon the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour. Both these sermons had been preached before the lord mayor and aldermen of the city, who had asked Barrow to print them; they were twice reprinted before they were included in the collected edition. At his death Barrow's papers were left to his father, Thomas Barrow, who entrusted them to John Tillotson, then dean of Canterbury, and to Abraham Hill – both friends of Barrow's – “with a power to print such of them as they saw proper.” Not all these manuscripts have survived, but a large number of them are extant in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one (Mss. Landsdowne 356) is preserved in the British Library. From these Tillotson published Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions in 1678, 8vo (reprinted 1679), Several Sermons against Evil-Speaking, also in 1678, 8vo (reprinted 1678, 1682), and Of the Love of God and Our Neighbour in Several Sermons in 1680, 8vo. Tillotson also published in 1680 Barrow's A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, as well as A Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church, and in 1681 A Brief Exposition of the Lord's Prayer and the Decalogue; with The Doctrine of the Sacraments.