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John Wesley · 1742 · Treatise
John Wesley wrote this treatise in 1742 as Methodism faced mounting criticism from both the established Church of England and broader English society. Critics accused Methodists of enthusiasm, sectarianism, and theological innovation,…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1742 · Treatise
Jonathan Edwards wrote this treatise in 1742 as both a defense and a critique of the Great Awakening, the powerful religious revival sweeping through New England and the middle colonies. Edwards had…
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John Wesley · 1745 · Treatise
John Wesley's "A Further Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion" emerged in 1745 as his second major apologetic work defending the Methodist revival against sustained attacks from Anglican clergy and educated…
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William Whiston · 1745 · Scripture
Whiston's Primitive New Testament represents an early attempt to recover what its compiler believed to be a more 'primitive' text of the New Testament. Its scope is the New Testament, working from…
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Philip Doddridge · 1745 · Book
Philip Doddridge's The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul emerged from his pastoral work among English Dissenters in the mid-eighteenth century, when Nonconformist communities faced both external persecution and internal…
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John Wesley · 1746 · Sermon
John Wesley's "Sermons on Several Occasions" emerged from his urgent need to establish doctrinal standards for the rapidly expanding Methodist movement. Published first in 1746 and expanded through subsequent volumes, these sermons…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1746 · Treatise
The second volume of Jonathan Edwards' collected works brings together his most sustained theological investigations from the height of his intellectual powers in the 1740s and 1750s. This collection emerged from Edwards'…
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Philip Doddridge · 1747 · Book
Philip Doddridge's biography of Colonel James Gardiner emerged from his pastoral relationship with the Scottish military officer, whom he had known personally in the final years of Gardiner's life. Written shortly after…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1749 · Book
Jonathan Edwards compiled this spiritual biography from the diary and letters of David Brainerd, a young missionary who died of tuberculosis in 1747 at age twenty-nine. Brainerd had served as a missionary…
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David Brainerd · 1749 · Other
The Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd emerged from the journals and papers of a young missionary who died of tuberculosis in 1747 at age twenty-nine. Jonathan Edwards, who had cared for…
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Richard Challoner · 1750 · Scripture
Undertaken by the English Catholic bishop Richard Challoner in the mid-eighteenth century, this revision transformed the very Latinate Douay-Rheims into the form familiar to generations of English-speaking Catholics. It covers the complete…
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Charles Wesley · 1750 · Poem
Charles Wesley's "Hymns for New-Year's Day" emerged from the Methodist movement's practice of marking temporal transitions as occasions for spiritual renewal. Published in 1750 during the height of Wesley's hymn-writing career, this…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1754 · Book
Edwards wrote this treatise in response to mounting Arminian challenges to Reformed doctrine in colonial New England, particularly the arguments of Daniel Whitby and Thomas Chubb who claimed that moral responsibility required…
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John Wesley · 1755 · Commentary
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the New Testament emerged from his conviction that ordinary Christians needed direct access to Scripture without the mediation of complex theological systems. Published in 1755 during the…
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John Wesley · 1755 · Scripture
An important early Methodist revision of the English New Testament, associated with John Wesley and the eighteenth-century evangelical revival out of which Methodism grew. Its scope is limited to the New Testament,…
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Philip Doddridge · 1755 · Book
Philip Doddridge's hymnal emerged from his pastoral work at Castle Hill Meeting in Northampton, where he served as minister to an independent Dissenting congregation from 1729 until his death in 1751. Published…
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John Witherspoon · 1756 · Treatise
John Witherspoon's "An Essay on Justification" emerged from the theological controversies that swept through Scottish Presbyterianism in the mid-eighteenth century. Written in 1756 while Witherspoon served as minister at Beith, this treatise…
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John Witherspoon · 1757 · Treatise
John Witherspoon's treatise emerged from the heated debates over theatrical entertainment that divided American Presbyterian communities in the mid-eighteenth century. Writing as a minister in colonial New Jersey before his appointment as…
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Samuel Davies · 1758 · Book
Samuel Davies preached these sermons during his ministry in Hanover County, Virginia, from 1747 to 1759, when he served as pastor to Presbyterian congregations in the midst of the Great Awakening's southern…
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Charles Wesley · 1759 · Book
Charles Wesley's "Funeral Hymns" emerged from the heart of eighteenth-century Methodist pastoral care, when death was an ever-present reality and congregational singing served as both theological instruction and spiritual comfort. Published in…
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Augustus Toplady · 1763 · Poem
Augustus Toplady's "Rock of Ages" emerged from the heated theological controversies of eighteenth-century England, where Calvinist and Arminian factions within Anglicanism fought bitterly over questions of grace, election, and human agency in…
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John Wesley · 1763 · Treatise
John Wesley's natural theology treatise emerged from his conviction that the study of nature could strengthen Christian faith rather than threaten it. Written during the Enlightenment's flowering, when scientific discovery was reshaping…
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Anthony Purver · 1764 · Scripture
Often referred to simply as the Quaker Bible, the Purver Bible was the first complete English Bible translated by a member of the Society of Friends, and it stands among the notable…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1765 · Book
Jonathan Edwards composed this theological treatise during his final years in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as part of his unfinished systematic theology. Published posthumously in 1765, the work represents Edwards's mature reflection on one…
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