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Hannah More · 1782 · Other
Hannah More's Sacred Dramas emerged from her conviction that the theater could serve moral and religious education rather than merely entertaining audiences with what she considered morally questionable fare. Writing as both…
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Andrew Fuller · 1785 · Treatise
Andrew Fuller's theological treatise emerged from the doctrinal controversies that had paralyzed English Baptist missions in the late eighteenth century. Hyper-Calvinist interpretations of predestination had convinced many ministers that evangelizing the unconverted…
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Messiah Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses
John Newton · 1786 · Sermon
John Newton's "Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses" represents the mature preaching ministry of the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman. Published in 1786 during his tenure at St. Mary Woolnoth in London, these…
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John Rippon · 1787 · Book
John Rippon's "A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors" emerged from the practical needs of Baptist congregational worship in late eighteenth-century England. As pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in…
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Thomas Scott · 1788–1792 · Commentary
Thomas Scott's Commentary on the Holy Bible emerged from his pastoral experience as an Anglican clergyman who had undergone a profound evangelical conversion. Originally published in weekly installments between 1788 and 1792,…
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Holy Bible with Notes The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version; with explanatory notes, practical observations, and copious marginal references
Thomas Scott · 1788–1792 · Commentary
Thomas Scott's comprehensive biblical commentary emerged from his pastoral experience in rural Buckinghamshire parishes during the late eighteenth century. Originally published serially between 1788 and 1792, this work grew out of Scott's…
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Hannah More · 1788 · Treatise
Hannah More's treatise emerged from her growing concern about the moral influence of Britain's upper classes during a period of social upheaval in the late eighteenth century. Writing as the French Revolution…
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George Campbell · 1789 · Scripture
An influential scholarly translation of the four Gospels, issued together with extensive critical dissertations. It works directly from the Greek, taking the Greek Gospels as its base text, and is classed as…
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John Rippon · 1790–1802 · Other
The Baptist Annual Register emerged from John Rippon's recognition that English Baptists needed a shared literary voice and historical record during a period of denominational growth and theological consolidation in the late…
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Hannah More · 1790 · Treatise
Hannah More's pointed treatise emerged from her position within the evangelical wing of the Church of England and her intimate knowledge of London's polite society. Writing at the height of the Georgian…
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Gilbert Wakefield · 1791 · Scripture
The Wakefield New Testament is an independent critical translation associated with late-Enlightenment English biblical scholarship, a period in which individual scholars increasingly issued their own renderings from the Greek rather than working…
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William Carey · 1792 · Book
William Carey's slim pamphlet emerged from the profound disconnect he observed between Christian profession and Christian practice in late eighteenth-century England. As a Baptist minister and cobbler in Northamptonshire, Carey witnessed churches…
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Hannah More · 1792 · Treatise
Village Politics emerged in 1792 as Hannah More's direct response to the radical political upheavals sweeping through France and threatening to cross the English Channel. Written during the height of revolutionary fervor,…
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Andrew Fuller · 1793 · Book
Andrew Fuller wrote this theological treatise in 1793 as a direct response to the growing influence of Socinian theology in English dissenting circles. Socinianism, which denied the Trinity and the deity of…
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Thomas Scott · 1793 · Essay
Thomas Scott's Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion emerged from his pastoral experience as an Anglican clergyman who had undergone a dramatic evangelical conversion. Originally published as separate treatises addressing…
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Seraphim of Sarov · 1794–1833 · Letter
These letters emerge from the final decades of Saint Seraphim's life at the Sarov Monastery, written between 1794 and his death in 1833 to spiritual children, fellow monastics, and lay seekers who…
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Seraphim of Sarov · 1794–1833 · Other
These spiritual instructions emerged from the hermitage of Seraphim of Sarov, one of Russia's most beloved saints, during his decades of monastic life in the forests of Tambov province. Living first as…
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Hannah More · 1795–1798 · Other
Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts emerged from her conviction that the common people of England needed accessible moral and religious instruction during a period of social upheaval. Published monthly from 1795 to…
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Thomas Haweis · 1795 · Scripture
The Haweis New Testament stands among the distinctive evangelical English New Testaments of the eighteenth century, a period in which individual translators increasingly ventured beyond the received King James Version to render…
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James MacKnight · 1795 · Scripture
An influential translation of and commentary on the apostolic epistles, the work of the Scottish minister and biblical scholar James MacKnight. Its scope is the New Testament Epistles, translated from Greek and…
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William Newcome · 1796 · Scripture
A major scholarly English New Testament produced at the turn of the nineteenth century, this work covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament. It…
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John Gill · 1796 · Book
John Gill's comprehensive systematic theology emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry at Horsleydown Baptist Church in London and his recognition that English Baptists lacked a thorough doctrinal handbook comparable to the…
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Charles Simeon · 1796 · Treatise
Charles Simeon's "Evangelical Preaching" emerged from his decades of experience as a preacher at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, and his role in training evangelical clergy within the Church of England. Writing during…
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Rowland Hill · 1796 · Book
Rowland Hill's "Instructions for the Young" emerged from the evangelical Anglican preacher's deep concern for childhood spiritual formation in an era when such systematic attention to young people's faith development was uncommon.…
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