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Philip Doddridge · 1747 · Book
Philip Doddridge's biography of Colonel James Gardiner emerged from his pastoral relationship with the Scottish military officer, whom he had known personally in the final years of Gardiner's life. Written shortly after…
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Selina Hastings · 1748–1791 · Letter
This collection preserves the extensive correspondence between Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, and the network of evangelical clergy who served as her chaplains throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. The…
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John Gill · 1748–1763 · Commentary
John Gill's monumental commentary on the Old Testament stands as one of the most comprehensive verse-by-verse expositions produced during the eighteenth century. Written across fifteen years by the influential Particular Baptist minister,…
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George Whitefield · 1748 · Book
George Whitefield's collection of eighteen sermons represents the theological heart of the Great Awakening's most prominent evangelist. Published in 1748 during the height of the revival movement, these sermons emerged from Whitefield's…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1748 · Sermon
These twenty-one discourses represent Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf's systematic engagement with the foundational Lutheran confession of faith, delivered as sermons to his Moravian community in the 1740s. As leader of the…
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John Wesley · 1749–1755 · Other
John Wesley's "A Christian Library" emerged from his conviction that ordinary Christians needed access to the finest spiritual writings across the centuries, stripped of denominational prejudice and sectarian controversy. Published in fifty…
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David Brainerd · 1749 · Book
David Brainerd's diary chronicles the brief but intense spiritual journey of a young missionary to Native Americans in colonial New England and Pennsylvania. Writing between 1742 and his death from tuberculosis in…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1749 · Book
Jonathan Edwards compiled this spiritual biography from the diary and letters of David Brainerd, a young missionary who died of tuberculosis in 1747 at age twenty-nine. Brainerd had served as a missionary…
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David Brainerd · 1749 · Other
The Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd emerged from the journals and papers of a young missionary who died of tuberculosis in 1747 at age twenty-nine. Jonathan Edwards, who had cared for…
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Joseph Butler · 1749 · Sermon
This small collection gathers sermons Joseph Butler delivered at various official and civic occasions over the course of his ecclesiastical career, brought together in 1749 when Butler was serving as Bishop of…
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William Law · 1749 · Treatise
William Law's "The Spirit of Prayer" emerged from his mature reflections on the mystical tradition, particularly his encounter with the writings of Jacob Boehme. Published in 1749, this treatise represented Law's attempt…
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Richard Challoner · 1750 · Scripture
Undertaken by the English Catholic bishop Richard Challoner in the mid-eighteenth century, this revision transformed the very Latinate Douay-Rheims into the form familiar to generations of English-speaking Catholics. It covers the complete…
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Charles Wesley · 1750 · Poem
Charles Wesley's "Hymns for New-Year's Day" emerged from the Methodist movement's practice of marking temporal transitions as occasions for spiritual renewal. Published in 1750 during the height of Wesley's hymn-writing career, this…
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William Romaine · 1750–1795 · Book
William Romaine's collected works represent the theological output of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential evangelical Anglican clergymen, spanning nearly five decades of ministry from 1750 to 1795. Writing during the early…
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Ebenezer Erskine · 1750–1780 · Book
This collection preserves the complete preaching ministry of Ebenezer Erskine, the eighteenth-century Scottish minister who became the founding father of the Associate Presbytery and the Secession Church. Erskine's works emerged from the…
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Samuel Davies · 1751 · Treatise
Samuel Davies composed this treatise in 1751 as both a defense and a report, addressing the precarious position of Presbyterian congregations in colonial Virginia. Writing during a period when the established Anglican…
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Samuel Davies · 1752 · Poem
Samuel Davies published this collection of devotional verse during his ministry as a Presbyterian evangelist in colonial Virginia, where he served scattered communities of dissenters in a region dominated by the established…
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William Law · 1752 · Treatise
The Spirit of Love stands as William Law's mature theological statement on the nature of divine love and its transformative power in human life. Written in 1752 during the final phase of…
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William Law · 1752 · Treatise
William Law's final major work emerged from his deep engagement with the mystical writings of Jacob Boehme and represents the culmination of his theological development. Writing as an Anglican clergyman who had…
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John Witherspoon · 1753 · Essay
John Witherspoon's "Ecclesiastical Characteristics" emerged from the heated divisions within the Church of Scotland during the mid-eighteenth century. Writing as a leader of the Popular party against the Moderate party's control of…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1753 · Letter
Gerhard Tersteegen's spiritual correspondence represents one of the most significant collections of devotional letters in German Pietist literature. Writing from his quiet retreat in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Tersteegen maintained an extensive…
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John Brown of Haddington · 1754 · Book
John Brown of Haddington wrote this devotional manual in 1754 as a practical guide for Reformed Christians seeking to cultivate spiritual awareness in daily life. Brown, a Scottish minister and biblical scholar…
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Jonathan Edwards · 1754 · Book
Edwards wrote this treatise in response to mounting Arminian challenges to Reformed doctrine in colonial New England, particularly the arguments of Daniel Whitby and Thomas Chubb who claimed that moral responsibility required…
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Ralph Erskine · 1754 · Poem
Ralph Erskine's Scripture Songs emerged from his pastoral ministry in the Scottish Secession Church during the early eighteenth century, when congregational singing remained a contentious issue among Presbyterian churches. Writing as both…
