Collins arranged tributes to the master that appeared in 1708 as
Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends and in 1720 as
A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr John Locke, published by M. Des Maizeaux under the direction of Mr Anthony Collins.
By that time Collins had made a lasting, if at the time a notorious, name for himself through a series of outspoken yet restrained publications, all of which were anonymous (although most sophisticated readers were aware of the author's identity). The more important include An Essay concerning the Use of Reason in Propositions, the Evidence wherof depends upon Human Testimony (1707); Priestcraft in Perfection: Or, A Detection of the Fraud of Inserting and Continuing this Clause (The Church hath Power to Decree Rites and Ceremonys, and Authority in Controversys in Faith) In the Twentieth Article of the Articles of the Church of England (1710); A Discourse of Free-Thinking, Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect call'd Free-Thinkers (1713; actually published late in 1712); A Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty (1715).
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