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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1732 · Treatise
Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf wrote this apologetic treatise in 1732 as the Moravian community at Herrnhut faced mounting criticism from Lutheran authorities and German intellectuals. The renewed Moravian church, which had emerged from…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1733 · Book
Gerhard Tersteegen's "Selected Life Descriptions of Holy Souls" emerged from his deep involvement in the Pietist movement within German Reformed circles during the early eighteenth century. Writing from his home in Mülheim…
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Gilbert Tennent · 1734 · Sermon
This sermon by Gilbert Tennent emerges from the intense spiritual climate of the early Great Awakening, when questions of genuine religious experience and proper Christian response dominated colonial American pulpits. Preached in…
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Isaac Watts · 1734 · Book
Reliquiae Juveniles, or "Youthful Remains," is Isaac Watts's collection of his earliest poems and hymns, written during his youth but published in 1734 near the end of his life. The volume preserves…
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Thomas Boston · 1734 · Treatise
Thomas Boston's systematic treatise emerged from his pastoral work in the Scottish Borders and his deep engagement with the Westminster Standards during the early eighteenth century. Writing as both theologian and shepherd,…
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John Gill · 1735–1738 · Treatise
John Gill's massive four-part treatise emerged from the heated theological controversies of early eighteenth-century England, where Arminian theology was gaining ground among Dissenters and challenging traditional Calvinist orthodoxy. Published between 1735 and…
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Journal The Journal of John Wesley
John Wesley · 1735–1791 · Other
John Wesley's Journal spans over five decades of spiritual leadership during the eighteenth-century evangelical revival in Britain. Beginning with his mission to Georgia in 1735 and extending through his mature years as…
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Gilbert Tennent · 1735 · Sermon
This sermon represents Gilbert Tennent's contribution to the theological ferment of the Great Awakening, delivered during the height of his evangelistic ministry in the mid-1730s. As one of the leading Presbyterian revivalists…
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Gilbert Tennent · 1735 · Sermon
Gilbert Tennent delivered this thunderous sermon during the height of the Great Awakening, when religious revival was sweeping through the American colonies but meeting fierce resistance from established clergy and comfortable congregations.…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1735 · Treatise
Gerhard Tersteegen's "Der frommen Lotterie" (The Pious Lottery) emerged from the German Pietist movement's emphasis on personal devotion and mystical experience within Reformed Christianity. Writing in 1735, Tersteegen created this treatise as…
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Joseph Butler · 1736 · Treatise
Joseph Butler's Analogy of Religion emerged from his concern that deist philosophy was undermining traditional Christian belief among educated English society. Writing as Bishop of Bristol, Butler faced critics who accepted natural…
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Joseph Butler · 1736 · Treatise
A short philosophical essay, appended by Joseph Butler to The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature in 1736. Butler noted in the Advertisement to that…
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Ebenezer Erskine · 1736 · Sermon
This sermon by Ebenezer Erskine takes its title and text from Isaiah 42:3, where the suffering servant "shall not break a bruised reed, and the smoking flax shall he not quench." Preached…
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Philip Doddridge · 1736 · Sermon
Philip Doddridge's "Ten Sermons on the Power and Grace of Christ" emerged from his pastoral ministry at Castle Hill Meeting in Northampton during the 1730s, a period when English Dissenting congregations faced…
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Thomas Boston · 1737 · Treatise
Thomas Boston's treatise emerged from his pastoral work in the Scottish Borders, where he observed countless parishioners struggling with afflictions that seemed to mar their earthly happiness. Writing in the tradition of…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1737 · Treatise
Jonathan Edwards wrote this detailed account of the religious revival that swept through his congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the surrounding Connecticut River Valley between 1734 and 1735. Originally composed as a…
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George Whitefield · 1737 · Sermon
This sermon emerged from George Whitefield's early ministry as an Anglican priest, delivered when he was just twenty-three years old and already drawing massive crowds throughout Britain. Preached during the opening phase…
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George Whitefield · 1737–1770 · Sermon
George Whitefield's sermons emerged from his revolutionary approach to preaching during the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. As crowds in parish churches proved insufficient for the masses seeking to hear him,…
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Ebenezer Erskine · 1738 · Sermon
This sermon emerged from Ebenezer Erskine's pastoral ministry during the theological upheavals of eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism. Preached in 1738, it addressed believers struggling with doubt about their salvation amid the doctrinal controversies…
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Journals George Whitefield's Journals
George Whitefield · 1738–1741 · Other
George Whitefield's Journals chronicle the early ministry of the Anglican evangelist who became one of the most prominent figures of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening. Written between 1738 and 1741, these personal accounts…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1738 · Treatise
This collection of aphoristic theological reflections emerges from Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf's leadership of the renewed Moravian Church during the 1730s, when the community faced both internal theological disputes and external criticism from…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1738–1760 · Other
The Hauptschriften (Principal Writings) of Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf represents the collected theological works of the Moravian Church's most influential leader during its eighteenth-century renewal. Written between 1738 and 1760, these works emerged…
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George Whitefield · 1738 · Sermon
This sermon by George Whitefield takes Genesis 3:15 as its text, preached during the early phase of the Great Awakening when Whitefield was establishing himself as one of the most powerful evangelical…
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John Wesley · 1738–1791 · Other
The Works of John Wesley encompasses the theological and pastoral writings of the Anglican priest who sparked the Methodist revival within eighteenth-century English Christianity. Writing across more than five decades of ministry,…
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