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Robert Bellarmine · 1620 · Treatise
Robert Bellarmine's "De Arte Bene Moriendi" (The Art of Dying Well) stands as one of the finest expressions of Counter-Reformation spirituality applied to the universal human experience of death. Written in 1620,…
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Johann Arndt · 1621 · Book
Johann Arndt's Six Books on True Christianity emerged from the Lutheran pastor's conviction that the Protestant Reformation had recovered sound doctrine but failed to cultivate corresponding transformation of heart and life. Writing…
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Johannes Gerhard · 1622 · Book
Johannes Gerhard's Schola Pietatis, published in 1622, stands as one of the most significant devotional works of Lutheran orthodoxy. Written during the height of the post-Reformation period when Lutheran theology was becoming…
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George Herbert · 1623 · Poem
George Herbert wrote this Latin poem on Christ's passion during his years as Public Orator at Cambridge University, before his ordination and English devotional poetry made him famous. The work emerged from…
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John Donne · 1624 · Treatise
John Donne's "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" emerged from a near-fatal illness that struck the poet and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in late 1623. During his convalescence, Donne composed this series of…
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Hugo Grotius · 1625 · Treatise
Hugo Grotius composed this foundational treatise on the law of war and peace while in exile from the Dutch Republic, completing it in 1625 during a period of intense religious and political…
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George Herbert · 1627 · Poem
"Memoriae Matris Sacrum" is George Herbert's Latin memorial poem for his mother, Magdalen Herbert, written in 1627 following her death. The work emerged from Herbert's profound grief at losing the woman who…
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William Ames · 1627 · Treatise
William Ames wrote his Medulla Theologiae (The Marrow of Theology) in 1627 as a systematic presentation of Reformed doctrine for students at the University of Franeker in the Dutch Republic. Working in…
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Hugo Grotius · 1627 · Treatise
Hugo Grotius wrote this systematic defense of Christianity in 1627 while serving as Sweden's ambassador to France, having fled the Dutch Republic following his imprisonment and dramatic escape during the religious and…
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William Ames · 1628 · Treatise
William Ames composed this systematic refutation of Robert Bellarmine's influential defense of Roman Catholic doctrine during the height of post-Reformation theological controversy. Bellarmine's multi-volume "Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith"…
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Arthur Hildersham · 1629 · Commentary
Arthur Hildersham's "CVIII Lectures Upon the Fourth of Iohn" represents one of the most thorough verse-by-verse expositions of John chapter 4 produced during the early Reformed period in England. Delivered as sermons…
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William Ames · 1629 · Treatise
William Ames composed this polemical treatise in 1629 as a direct response to the proceedings and decisions of the Synod of Dort (1618-1619), writing from his position as a Reformed theologian in…
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Richard Sibbes · 1629 · Treatise
Richard Sibbes wrote The Saint's Cordials as a devotional treatise designed to strengthen believers facing spiritual discouragement and doubt. Published in 1629 during his tenure as preacher at Gray's Inn, London, the…
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John Preston · 1629 · Treatise
John Preston's "The Saints Daily Exercise" emerged from his pastoral ministry at Trinity Church, Cambridge, and his broader influence as a leading Puritan divine in the 1620s. Written during the height of…
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Francis de Sales · 1629 · Other
The Entretiens spirituels preserves twenty-one recorded conversations between Francis de Sales and the sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary, primarily at Annecy between 1616 and 1622. These intimate dialogues emerged from…
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Jacobus Arminius · 1629 · Book
The Opera Theologica represents the collected theological writings of Jacobus Arminius, published posthumously in 1629, nine years after the Synod of Dort had condemned his teachings. This comprehensive collection emerged from the…
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Works of Arminius The Works of Arminius (3 volumes complete)
Jacobus Arminius · 1629–1875 · Other
The complete works of Jacobus Arminius represent the theological legacy of a Dutch Reformed professor whose questions about predestination sparked one of the most significant theological controversies in Protestant history. Writing primarily…
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Jacobus Arminius · 1629–1875 · Other
The collected works of Jacobus Arminius preserve the theological writings of the Dutch Reformed pastor and professor who became the reluctant namesake of Arminianism. Writing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth…
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John Preston · 1630 · Treatise
John Preston's treatise emerged from his preaching ministry at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Trinity Church during the height of Puritan influence in early seventeenth-century England. As one of the most prominent Reformed…
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Richard Sibbes · 1630 · Book
Richard Sibbes wrote The Bruised Reed as a series of sermons delivered at Gray's Inn Chapel in London, where he ministered to lawyers and students during the early decades of the seventeenth…
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Letters The Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford · 1630–1661 · Letter
Samuel Rutherford's letters emerged from the crucible of seventeenth-century Scottish religious and political upheaval. Written between 1630 and 1661, these intimate correspondences flowed from his pen during periods of exile, pastoral ministry,…
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John Preston · 1630 · Sermon
This collection preserves sermons that John Preston delivered before King James I during his tenure as court preacher in the early 1620s. Preston, master of Emmanuel College Cambridge and a leading figure…
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Arthur Hildersham · 1630 · Treatise
Arthur Hildersham's treatise emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he observed both the profound reverence and troubling casualness with which English Protestants approached communion. Writing in the mature…
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John Preston · 1631 · Treatise
Life Eternall emerged from John Preston's preaching ministry at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and later at Lincoln's Inn, where he addressed audiences grappling with questions of assurance and the nature of eternal life.…
