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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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Isaac Watts · 1715 · Book
Isaac Watts wrote this practical manual on prayer during the early eighteenth century, when English Dissenters faced ongoing legal restrictions and social marginalization. As a Congregationalist minister who had already established himself…
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William Law · 1717 · Letter
William Law's Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor emerged from one of the most significant theological controversies in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. In 1717, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, preached a sermon before…
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Isaac Watts · 1719 · Book
Isaac Watts created this collection of psalm paraphrases to address what he saw as a critical gap in English worship. Writing in early eighteenth-century England, Watts believed that congregational singing had grown…
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Autobiography of Madame Guyon Vie de Madame J.M.B. de la Mothe Guyon, écrite par elle-même
Madame Jeanne Guyon · 1720 · Book
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon's spiritual autobiography chronicles one of the most controversial mystical journeys in Christian history. Writing in the final decades of the seventeenth century while imprisoned in the Bastille,…
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Ebenezer Erskine · 1720 · Sermon
The Gospel Sonnets is a collection of devotional poems written by Ebenezer Erskine, the Scottish Presbyterian minister who would later become a founding figure of the Associate Presbytery during the ecclesiastical controversies…
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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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Ebenezer Erskine · 1720–1754 · Sermon
This collection gathers the preaching ministry of Ebenezer Erskine, the Scottish Presbyterian minister who became a central figure in the Secession Church movement of the 1730s. Erskine's sermons emerged from his pastoral…
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Ralph Erskine · 1720–1752 · Sermon
Ralph Erskine's collected sermons emerged from his thirty-nine year ministry at Dunfermline in Scotland, where he served as pastor from 1711 until his death in 1752. A key figure in the Scottish…
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Jean-Pierre de Caussade · 1720–1750 · Treatise
The Lettres spirituelles comprise some four hundred letters written by Jean-Pierre de Caussade to the Visitation nuns at Nancy between 1720 and 1751, during his tenure as their spiritual director. These letters…
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Ralph Erskine · 1722 · Treatise
Ralph Erskine's "The Believer's Principles" emerged from his pastoral ministry in the Scottish Secession Church during a period of theological controversy within Scottish Presbyterianism. Written in 1722, this systematic treatise addressed the…
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August Hermann Francke · 1723 · Treatise
August Hermann Francke's "Methodus Studii Theologici" emerged from his revolutionary work transforming theological education at the University of Halle in the early eighteenth century. As a leading figure in German Pietism and…
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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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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1725–1760 · Poem
Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf's hymns emerged from his leadership of the renewed Moravian Church at Herrnhut, where a twenty-four-hour prayer vigil beginning in 1727 lasted over a century and sparked worldwide missionary endeavors.…
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Joseph Butler · 1726 · Sermon
Joseph Butler preached these fifteen sermons to the lawyers and Chancery officials who worshipped at the Rolls Chapel in London, where he served as Preacher from 1719 until 1726, the year he…
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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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William Law · 1726 · Treatise
William Law's treatise emerged from his conviction that the Church of England had grown comfortable with nominal Christianity, satisfied with external conformity rather than pursuing the radical transformation that the gospel demands.…
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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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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1729 · Book
Gerhard Tersteegen's "The Spiritual Life" emerges from the pietist revival that swept through German-speaking Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Writing as a Reformed mystic who had withdrawn from…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1729 · Book
Gerhard Tersteegen's Spiritual Flower-Garden emerged from the Pietist renewal movement in early eighteenth-century Germany, when Reformed communities sought deeper personal communion with God beyond formal doctrinal adherence. Writing from his experience as…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1731 · Book
Geistliche Lieder represents Gerhard Tersteegen's contribution to the rich tradition of German Reformed hymnody during the early eighteenth century. Published in 1731, this collection emerged from Tersteegen's work as a spiritual director…
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Philip Doddridge · 1732 · Sermon
Philip Doddridge's sermons on religious education emerged from his pastoral concern for the spiritual formation of children within eighteenth-century Dissenting communities. As an Independent minister and educator who founded his own academy,…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1732 · Treatise
Der deutsche Socrates emerged from Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf's engagement with Enlightenment rationalism and its challenge to orthodox Christianity in early eighteenth-century Germany. Writing as the leader of the renewed Moravian community at…
