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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 Writing as a Reformed mystic who had withdrawn from…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…
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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…
