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Jonathan Edwards · 1765 · Treatise
Jonathan Edwards composed this philosophical treatise on moral virtue during his final years as president of the College of New Jersey, completing it shortly before his death in 1758. Published posthumously in…
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Hannah More · 1766 · Book
Hannah More's debut novel tells the story of a plantation owner who undergoes moral conversion and dedicates his life to reforming society through Christian benevolence. Written when More was just twenty-one, the…
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John Wesley · 1766 · Treatise
John Wesley's "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection" emerged from decades of controversy within and beyond Methodism over Wesley's teaching that Christians could attain perfection in love during this life. Published in…
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Edward Harwood · 1768 · Scripture
The Harwood New Testament is a distinctive attempt to render the New Testament in the polished literary English of the eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from…
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Augustus Toplady · 1769 · Treatise
Augustus Toplady's "Zanchius on Predestination" emerged from the heated theological debates of eighteenth-century England, where Arminian and Calvinist positions clashed over divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Toplady, the Anglican clergyman best known…
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John Worsley · 1770 · Scripture
The Worsley New Testament is an independent English rendering of the New Testament dating from the late eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it draws on Greek…
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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1771–1785 · Book
John Fletcher's collected works emerged from his role as the chief theological defender of John Wesley's Methodist movement during the eighteenth century. A Swiss-born Anglican priest who served the parish of Madeley…
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George Whitefield · 1771–1772 · Other
This seven-volume collection gathers the sermons, journals, and letters of George Whitefield, the Anglican evangelist whose transatlantic preaching ministry became central to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Published shortly after Whitefield's…
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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1772 · Treatise
John Fletcher's Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense emerged from the heated theological controversies of 1770s England, when Calvinist critics were mounting sustained attacks against John Wesley's Arminian theology and…
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John Newton · 1774 · Letter
John Newton's Twenty-six Letters to a Nobleman emerged from his correspondence with a young aristocrat who had written to challenge the evangelical clergyman's Christian faith. Published in 1774, these letters represent Newton's…
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Augustus Toplady · 1774–1794 · Book
The Works of Augustus Toplady represents the collected theological output of one of the eighteenth century's most vigorous defenders of Calvinist orthodoxy within the Church of England. Writing during a period when…
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Thomas Boston · 1776 · Book
Thomas Boston's spiritual autobiography stands as one of the most penetrating self-examinations in Scottish Reformed literature. Written during his final years as minister of Ettrick in the Scottish Borders, the work emerged…
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Force of Truth The Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative
Thomas Scott · 1779 · Book
The Force of Truth stands as one of the most compelling spiritual autobiographies of the eighteenth century, chronicling Thomas Scott's transformation from religious skeptic to devoted Christian minister. Scott, who would later…
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John Newton · 1779 · Poem
The Olney Hymns emerged from the pastoral partnership between John Newton, the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman, and William Cowper, the melancholic poet, during their years together in the small market…
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John Newton · 1780 · Letter
John Newton's Letters and Sermons emerged from his pastoral ministry at Olney and later St. Mary Woolnoth in London, where the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman shepherded congregations through the spiritual…
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Cardiphonia Cardiphonia: or the Utterance of the Heart
John Newton · 1781 · Letter
Cardiphonia presents a collection of letters written by John Newton to friends, parishioners, and correspondents seeking spiritual guidance during his decades of pastoral ministry. Newton, the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman…
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Messiah Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses
John Newton · 1786 · Sermon
John Newton's "Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses" represents the mature preaching ministry of the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman. Published in 1786 during his tenure at St. Mary Woolnoth in London, these…
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John Rippon · 1787 · Book
John Rippon's "A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors" emerged from the practical needs of Baptist congregational worship in late eighteenth-century England. As pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in…
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Holy Bible with Notes The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version; with explanatory notes, practical observations, and copious marginal references
Thomas Scott · 1788–1792 · Commentary
Thomas Scott's comprehensive biblical commentary emerged from his pastoral experience in rural Buckinghamshire parishes during the late eighteenth century. Originally published serially between 1788 and 1792, this work grew out of Scott's…
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Hannah More · 1788 · Treatise
Hannah More's treatise emerged from her growing concern about the moral influence of Britain's upper classes during a period of social upheaval in the late eighteenth century. Writing as the French Revolution…
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George Campbell · 1789 · Scripture
An influential scholarly translation of the four Gospels, issued together with extensive critical dissertations. It works directly from the Greek, taking the Greek Gospels as its base text, and is classed as…
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Gilbert Wakefield · 1791 · Scripture
The Wakefield New Testament is an independent critical translation associated with late-Enlightenment English biblical scholarship, a period in which individual scholars increasingly issued their own renderings from the Greek rather than working…
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William Carey · 1792 · Book
William Carey's slim pamphlet emerged from the profound disconnect he observed between Christian profession and Christian practice in late eighteenth-century England. As a Baptist minister and cobbler in Northamptonshire, Carey witnessed churches…
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Hannah More · 1795–1798 · Other
Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts emerged from her conviction that the common people of England needed accessible moral and religious instruction during a period of social upheaval. Published monthly from 1795 to…
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