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Gilbert Tennent · 1758 · Book
Gilbert Tennent's collection of sermons emerged from his role as one of the most influential preachers of the Great Awakening in colonial America. A Presbyterian minister trained at the Log College founded…
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Charles Wesley · 1759 · Book
Charles Wesley's "Funeral Hymns" emerged from the heart of eighteenth-century Methodist pastoral care, when death was an ever-present reality and congregational singing served as both theological instruction and spiritual comfort. Published in…
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William Romaine · 1759 · Sermon
This sermon by William Romaine addresses the fundamental question of how believers can face death with confidence rather than terror. Preached in 1759 during his ministry at St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, the work…
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John Newton · 1760–1807 · Letter
John Newton's letters span nearly five decades of pastoral correspondence, written primarily during his years as curate of Olney and rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in London. A former slave trader transformed…
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William Law · 1760 · Treatise
William Law's treatise on justification emerged in 1760 as part of his later theological development, when the former high church Anglican had moved beyond his earlier rigoristic writings toward a more mystical…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1760–1762 · Sermon
Gerhard Tersteegen's Geistliche Reden (Spiritual Discourses) emerged from his pastoral work among the Reformed Pietist communities of the Lower Rhine region during the mid-eighteenth century. These sermons, delivered primarily to small gatherings…
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William Romaine · 1761 · Sermon
William Romaine's twelve sermons emerged from his conviction that the Church of England had lost sight of the gospel's distinctiveness from moral law. Preaching at St. Dunstan-in-the-West and other London pulpits during…
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Charles Wesley · 1762 · Book
Charles Wesley's Short Hymns represents one of the most ambitious hymnographic projects of the eighteenth century: a systematic effort to create devotional songs for nearly every passage of Scripture. Published in 1762…
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Philip Doddridge · 1763 · Treatise
A Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity emerged from Philip Doddridge's seventeen years of teaching at the dissenting academy in Northampton, where he trained ministers for non-conformist churches. Published posthumously…
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Augustus Toplady · 1763 · Poem
Augustus Toplady's "Rock of Ages" emerged from the heated theological controversies of eighteenth-century England, where Calvinist and Arminian factions within Anglicanism fought bitterly over questions of grace, election, and human agency in…
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John Wesley · 1763 · Treatise
John Wesley's natural theology treatise emerged from his conviction that the study of nature could strengthen Christian faith rather than threaten it. Written during the Enlightenment's flowering, when scientific discovery was reshaping…
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John Newton · 1764 · Book
John Newton's "An Authentic Narrative" stands as one of the most compelling spiritual autobiographies of the eighteenth century, written by a man whose life journey from slave trader to Anglican clergyman embodied…
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Anthony Purver · 1764 · Scripture
Often referred to simply as the Quaker Bible, the Purver Bible was the first complete English Bible translated by a member of the Society of Friends, and it stands among the notable…
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Ralph Erskine · 1764–1765 · Other
The collected works of Ralph Erskine represent the theological and pastoral legacy of one of Scotland's most significant eighteenth-century ministers, compiled from his extensive preaching, writing, and correspondence during his forty-year ministry…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1765 · Book
Jonathan Edwards composed this theological treatise during his final years in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as part of his unfinished systematic theology. Published posthumously in 1765, the work represents Edwards's mature reflection on one…
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John Witherspoon · 1765 · Treatise
John Witherspoon wrote this satirical treatise in 1765 as a pointed critique of the Church of Scotland's patronage system, which allowed wealthy landowners and civil authorities to appoint ministers to parishes regardless…
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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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John Gill · 1767 · Treatise
John Gill's dissertation emerged from eighteenth-century debates about the origins of human language and the reliability of biblical chronology. Writing in 1767, the Baptist minister and biblical scholar faced Enlightenment challenges to…
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Charles Wesley · 1767 · Poem
Charles Wesley's "Hymns for the Use of Families" emerged from his conviction that Christian formation required daily spiritual practices rooted in domestic life. Published in 1767, this collection of hymns was designed…
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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 Gill · 1769 · Book
John Gill's comprehensive systematic theology emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry at Horsleydown Baptist Church in London, where he served from 1720 until his death in 1771. Written in the mature…
