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François Fénelon · 1690 · Letter
François Fénelon's spiritual letters emerged from his extensive correspondence as a priest and spiritual director in late seventeenth-century France. Writing primarily to aristocratic women and fellow clergy seeking guidance in the spiritual…
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Thomas Watson · 1692 · Treatise
Thomas Watson's A Body of Divinity emerged from his pastoral ministry at St. Stephen's Walbrook in London during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. As one of the leading Puritan divines,…
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Thomas Watson · 1692 · Treatise
Thomas Watson's exposition of the Lord's Prayer emerged from his pastoral ministry in seventeenth-century London, where he served as a Puritan minister before and after the Great Ejection of 1662. Writing during…
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John Bunyan · 1698 · Treatise
John Bunyan composed this treatise on Christian perseverance during his twelve-year imprisonment in Bedford County Gaol, where he penned many of his most enduring works. Written as an extended meditation on 1…
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François Fénelon · 1699 · Book
Fénelon's Adventures of Telemachus emerged from his role as tutor to the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV and heir to the French throne. Written as an educational novel for his…
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Isaac Watts · 1706 · Book
Isaac Watts published Horae Lyricae (Lyrical Hours) in 1706 as his first major collection of sacred poetry, responding to what he saw as the impoverished state of English congregational singing. Dissatisfied with…
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Isaac Watts · 1707 · Poem
Isaac Watts published this groundbreaking collection in 1707 as part of his broader campaign to reform English congregational singing. As a young Nonconformist minister, Watts had grown frustrated with the limitations of…
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Isaac Watts · 1715 · Book
Isaac Watts composed this collection of simple verses in 1715 to address what he saw as a critical gap in Christian education. Observing that children were expected to sing the complex theological…
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Thomas Boston · 1720 · Book
Thomas Boston's systematic exposition of human nature emerged from his pastoral ministry in the Scottish Borders and his commitment to rigorous Reformed theology. Writing in the early eighteenth century as debates over…
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Isaac Watts · 1724 · Treatise
Isaac Watts wrote this systematic treatise on logic in 1724 to address what he saw as the widespread confusion and error plaguing both secular learning and Christian theology. As a Dissenting minister…
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Ralph Erskine · 1726 · Poem
Ralph Erskine's Gospel Sonnets emerged from the devotional ferment of early eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism, when poetry served as both personal meditation and public proclamation of Reformed doctrine. Writing during his ministry in…
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Daniel Mace · 1729 · Scripture
The Mace New Testament stands among the earliest English New Testaments to make substantial independent use of textual criticism after the King James Version. Associated with Daniel Mace and belonging to the…
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William Law · 1729 · Book
William Law's masterpiece of Anglican spirituality emerged from his conviction that the Church of England had grown complacent in its pursuit of holiness. Writing in 1729 as a nonjuring clergyman who had…
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Isaac Watts · 1734 · Book
Reliquiae Juveniles, or "Youthful Remains," is Isaac Watts's collection of his earliest poems and hymns, written during his youth but published in 1734 near the end of his life. The volume preserves…
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Journal The Journal of John Wesley
John Wesley · 1735–1791 · Other
John Wesley's Journal spans over five decades of spiritual leadership during the eighteenth-century evangelical revival in Britain. Beginning with his mission to Georgia in 1735 and extending through his mature years as…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1737 · Treatise
Jonathan Edwards wrote this detailed account of the religious revival that swept through his congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the surrounding Connecticut River Valley between 1734 and 1735. Originally composed as a…
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Select Sermons Select Sermons of George Whitefield
George Whitefield · 1737–1770 · Sermon
George Whitefield's sermons emerged from his revolutionary approach to preaching during the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. As crowds in parish churches proved insufficient for the masses seeking to hear him,…
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George Whitefield · 1738 · Sermon
This sermon by George Whitefield takes Genesis 3:15 as its text, preached during the early phase of the Great Awakening when Whitefield was establishing himself as one of the most powerful evangelical…
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John Wesley · 1738–1791 · Other
The Works of John Wesley encompasses the theological and pastoral writings of the Anglican priest who sparked the Methodist revival within eighteenth-century English Christianity. Writing across more than five decades of ministry,…
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George Whitefield · 1739 · Sermon
George Whitefield's "The Almost Christian" is a sermon delivered in 1739 during the early years of the Great Awakening, when the young Anglican evangelist was challenging the spiritual complacency he perceived in…
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George Whitefield · 1740 · Sermon
George Whitefield's Selected Sermons captures the theological core of the most prominent preacher of the eighteenth-century evangelical revival. These sermons emerged from Whitefield's itinerant ministry across Britain and colonial America, where his…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1741 · Sermon
This sermon emerged from Jonathan Edwards's urgent need to defend the Great Awakening against its critics in 1741. As revival swept through New England, bringing dramatic conversions and intense religious experiences, opponents…
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Isaac Watts · 1741 · Treatise
Isaac Watts composed this systematic guide to intellectual development as a practical manual for students and ministers seeking to cultivate their reasoning faculties. Writing from his experience as a Dissenting academy tutor…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1741 · Sermon
Jonathan Edwards preached this sermon in Enfield, Connecticut, on July 8, 1741, during the height of the Great Awakening. The congregation had remained largely unmoved by the revival sweeping through New England,…
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