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William Perkins · 1604 · Commentary
William Perkins produced this verse-by-verse exposition of Galatians during his tenure as lecturer at Great St. Andrew's Church in Cambridge, where his preaching drew students and townspeople alike. Published posthumously in 1604,…
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Joseph Hall · 1605 · Treatise
Joseph Hall's Meditations and Vows emerged from the young Anglican cleric's desire to create a structured approach to personal devotion that could serve both clergy and educated laypeople in early seventeenth-century England.…
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Lancelot Andrewes · 1605 · Sermon
This Christmas sermon represents one of Lancelot Andrewes's most celebrated homiletical performances, delivered before King James I at Whitehall Palace on December 25, 1605. Andrewes, who served as Bishop of Chichester and…
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Lancelot Andrewes · 1605–1624 · Sermon
These seventeen sermons on Christ's birth emerge from Lancelot Andrewes's annual Christmas Day preaching before the court of King James I between 1605 and 1624. As Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and finally…
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Joseph Hall · 1605 · Treatise
Joseph Hall's satirical treatise emerged during the early years of James I's reign, when English society was grappling with both genuine spiritual reform and fashionable religious posturing. Writing as an Anglican clergyman…
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True Christianity Vier Bücher vom wahren Christentum
Johann Arndt · 1605–1610 · Book
Johann Arndt's Four Books on True Christianity emerged from his concern that Lutheran orthodoxy had become intellectually rigorous but spiritually sterile. Writing in the early seventeenth century as a parish pastor who…
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Jacobus Arminius · 1606–1608 · Commentary
Jacobus Arminius composed this detailed commentary on Romans during his tenure as professor of theology at Leiden University, working on it from 1606 until his death in 1609. The work emerged from…
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Joseph Hall · 1606 · Treatise
Joseph Hall's treatise emerged from his conviction that English Protestants lacked practical guidance for contemplative prayer, a discipline he saw Catholics practicing with greater skill and consistency. Writing as a young Anglican…
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Joseph Hall · 1606 · Treatise
Joseph Hall's "Heaven upon Earth" emerges from the devotional ferment of early seventeenth-century Anglicanism, written by a bishop who sought to chart a middle course between Puritan intensity and ceremonial formalism. Hall,…
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Johannes Gerhard · 1606 · Book
Johannes Gerhard's Meditationes Sacrae emerged from the flowering of Lutheran devotional literature in early seventeenth-century Germany, written when the author was establishing himself as one of orthodox Lutheranism's most influential theologians. Published…
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John Donne · 1607–1608 · Treatise
Written between 1607 and 1608 but withheld from publication during his lifetime, John Donne's Biathanatos emerged from the poet-preacher's wrestling with his own melancholic temperament and suicidal inclinations. The work represents an…
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Amandus Polanus · 1607 · Book
Symphonia Catholica stands as Amandus Polanus's systematic demonstration that Reformed theology harmonizes with the authentic voice of the early church. Writing from his position as professor at Basel in 1607, Polanus constructed…
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Giovanni Diodati · 1607 · Scripture
The Diodati Bible was the first major Italian Protestant Bible translated directly from the original languages. A complete Protestant Bible, it was prepared as a fresh translation from Hebrew and Greek, with…
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Joseph Hall · 1608 · Book
Joseph Hall's Characters of Virtues and Vices stands as one of the earliest and most influential examples of the "character" genre in English literature, a form that sketches moral types through brief,…
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Jacobus Arminius · 1608 · Treatise
The Declaration of Sentiments represents Jacobus Arminius's formal theological defense, written in 1608 as he faced mounting accusations of heresy from his Reformed colleagues at Leiden University. As tensions escalated over his…
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William Perkins · 1608 · Treatise
William Perkins produced this systematic treatise on witchcraft during the height of European witch trials, when Reformed theologians grappled with distinguishing genuine spiritual warfare from superstition and false accusation. Writing as a…
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Joseph Hall · 1608–1611 · Letter
Joseph Hall's Epistles comprise six decades of moral and spiritual letters written between 1608 and 1611, during his tenure as a parish rector in Suffolk and his emerging reputation as one of…
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Johannes Piscator · 1608 · Commentary
Johannes Piscator's Analysis logica evangelii secundum Joannem represents a sophisticated attempt to apply the methods of Ramist logic to the interpretation of John's Gospel. Published in 1608 during the height of Reformed…
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Francisco Suárez · 1608 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez composed this systematic treatise on the virtue of religion as part of his comprehensive theological project during the height of the Counter-Reformation. Writing as a Jesuit scholastic at the University…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1608 · Treatise
This Latin treatise represents Cardinal Robert Bellarmine's systematic response to the anonymous work "Triplici Nodo, Triplex Cuneus" (A Triple Wedge for a Triple Knot), which had attacked papal authority and defended the…
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Theological Works The Works of James Arminius, Volume 2
Jacobus Arminius · 1608–1609 · Book
The second volume of Arminius's collected works contains his most sustained theological arguments, written during his professorship at Leiden University from 1603 until his death in 1609. These treatises emerged from the…
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William Perkins · 1609 · Treatise
Christian Oeconomie stands as William Perkins' systematic treatment of household management and family life within the framework of Reformed theology. Writing in the early seventeenth century, Perkins addressed the pressing need for…
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Free Sea Mare Liberum (The Free Sea)
Hugo Grotius · 1609 · Treatise
Mare Liberum is Hugo Grotius's foundational treatise on international maritime law, written in 1609 as legal counsel for the Dutch East India Company. The work emerged from a specific commercial dispute: the…
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John Donne · 1609–1617 · Poem
John Donne's Holy Sonnets emerged from the poet's spiritual awakening following his conversion from Catholicism to Anglicanism and his ordination as a priest in 1615. Written between 1609 and 1617, these nineteen…
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