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Journal The Journal of George Fox
George Fox · 1675–1691 · Other
George Fox's Journal chronicles the spiritual awakening and ministry of the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, spanning from his birth in 1624 through his death in 1691. Fox began recording…
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Thomas Brooks · 1675 · Treatise
Paradise Opened stands as one of Thomas Brooks's most accessible and beloved devotional works, written in 1675 during the height of his pastoral ministry in London. Brooks, a Puritan minister who had…
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Philipp Jakob Spener · 1675 · Book
Pia Desideria emerged from Philipp Jakob Spener's growing concern about the spiritual lethargy he observed in the Lutheran church of his day. Writing as senior pastor in Frankfurt am Main, Spener witnessed…
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Robert Barclay · 1675 · Treatise
Robert Barclay's Theses Theologicae represents the first systematic theological defense of Quaker doctrine, written in Latin to engage the broader European scholarly community. Composed in 1675 during a period when the Religious…
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Robert Barclay · 1676 · Treatise
Robert Barclay wrote this treatise in 1676 to defend Quaker theology against critics who lumped Friends together with antinomian sects like the Ranters. During the Restoration period, mainstream Protestant churches and civil…
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Robert Barclay · 1676 · Treatise
Robert Barclay's "An Apology for the True Christian Divinity" stands as the most systematic and intellectually rigorous defense of Quaker theology ever written. Composed in Latin and published in 1676, this treatise…
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George Fox · 1676 · Treatise
George Fox wrote this polemical treatise in 1676 as a direct response to critics who accused Quakers of heretical teachings and dangerous practices. The work emerged during a period of intense persecution…
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George Fox · 1676 · Treatise
George Fox wrote this treatise in 1676 as Quakerism faced growing questions about its organizational structure and relationship to established religious authority. As the Religious Society of Friends expanded beyond its initial…
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Law Unsealed The Law Unsealed: Or, A Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments
James Durham · 1676 · Commentary
James Durham's comprehensive exposition of the Ten Commandments emerged from his pastoral ministry in seventeenth-century Scotland during a period of intense theological and political upheaval. As a prominent minister in the Church…
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John Owen · 1676 · Treatise
John Owen wrote this theological treatise in 1676 as England grappled with religious uncertainty following the Restoration of Charles II. The Puritan movement faced increasing pressure, and many who had once embraced…
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John Bunyan · 1676 · Treatise
John Bunyan's treatise emerges from his pastoral concern for souls who mistake the breadth of God's invitation for the ease of Christian discipleship. Writing during his Bedford pastorate in the 1670s, Bunyan…
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John Owen · 1677 · Treatise
John Owen wrote The Reason of Faith in 1677 as a philosophical defense of Christian belief against the rising tide of rationalist skepticism that characterized late seventeenth-century intellectual life. The work emerged…
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Philipp Jakob Spener · 1677 · Treatise
Philipp Jakob Spener's "Geistliches Priestertum" (Spiritual Priesthood) emerged from his deepening conviction that the Lutheran church had lost sight of the priesthood of all believers, a central tenet of the Reformation that…
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Herman Witsius · 1677 · Book
Herman Witsius wrote this comprehensive treatise on covenant theology in 1677 during the height of Reformed scholastic theology, when Protestant theologians were developing systematic frameworks to articulate the relationship between God's dealings…
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Robert Barclay · 1677 · Treatise
Robert Barclay wrote this treatise in 1677 as part of his broader defense of Quaker theology against both Protestant and Catholic critics. The work emerged from ongoing controversies over Quaker claims about…
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John Bunyan · 1678 · Treatise
John Bunyan wrote this evangelistic treatise in 1678, two years before his death, drawing from his decades of pastoral experience with souls wrestling over their spiritual condition. The work emerged from Bunyan's…
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John Flavel · 1678 · Treatise
John Flavel's treatise emerged from his pastoral concern for Christians struggling to discern God's hand in the bewildering circumstances of daily life. Writing during the tumultuous period of Restoration England, when Puritan…
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John Bunyan · 1678 · Book
John Bunyan's allegorical masterpiece emerged from his twelve years of imprisonment in Bedford jail for unlicensed preaching. Writing in the plain style of popular literature rather than learned theology, the dissenting minister…
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John Bunyan · 1678–1688 · Book
John Bunyan's collected works emerged from the unique circumstances of a Bedford tinker whose Nonconformist convictions led to twelve years of imprisonment following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Writing from…
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John Owen · 1679 · Treatise
Owen's Christologia emerged from his mature theological reflection on the person and work of Christ, written as one of his final major works during a period when English Nonconformists faced continued persecution…
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Petrus van Mastricht · 1679 · Treatise
Petrus van Mastricht's Vindiciae Veritatis et Pacis emerged from the theological turbulence of the late seventeenth century, when Reformed orthodoxy faced challenges from multiple quarters including Cartesian philosophy, Socinian theology, and various…
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Great Concernment The Great Concernment: Or, A Seasonable Inquiry into that Grand Question Whether a Popish Successor May Be Admitted
James Durham · 1679 · Treatise
This treatise emerged from the political and religious crisis surrounding the prospect of James, Duke of York's succession to the English throne. Writing as a Scottish Presbyterian minister during the height of…
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John Flavel · 1679 · Treatise
John Flavel wrote The Touchstone of Sincerity in 1679 as a pastoral guide for Christians struggling to discern the authenticity of their faith. During this period of Puritan spiritual introspection, believers frequently…
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John Flavel · 1679–1701 · Other
John Flavel's collected writings emerged from his pastoral ministry in Dartmouth, Devon, during the tumultuous decades following the English Civil War. A Puritan minister who faced ejection from his parish under the…
