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Herman Witsius · 1677 · Book
Herman Witsius wrote this comprehensive treatise on covenant theology in 1677 during the height of Reformed scholastic theology, when Protestant theologians were developing systematic frameworks to articulate the relationship between God's dealings…
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Robert Barclay · 1677 · Treatise
Robert Barclay wrote this treatise in 1677 as part of his broader defense of Quaker theology against both Protestant and Catholic critics. The work emerged from ongoing controversies over Quaker claims about…
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John Bunyan · 1678 · Treatise
John Bunyan wrote this evangelistic treatise in 1678, two years before his death, drawing from his decades of pastoral experience with souls wrestling over their spiritual condition. The work emerged from Bunyan's…
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John Flavel · 1678 · Treatise
John Flavel's treatise emerged from his pastoral concern for Christians struggling to discern God's hand in the bewildering circumstances of daily life. Writing during the tumultuous period of Restoration England, when Puritan…
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John Bunyan · 1678 · Book
John Bunyan's allegorical masterpiece emerged from his twelve years of imprisonment in Bedford jail for unlicensed preaching. Writing in the plain style of popular literature rather than learned theology, the dissenting minister…
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John Bunyan · 1678–1688 · Book
John Bunyan's collected works emerged from the unique circumstances of a Bedford tinker whose Nonconformist convictions led to twelve years of imprisonment following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Writing from…
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John Owen · 1679 · Treatise
Owen's Christologia emerged from his mature theological reflection on the person and work of Christ, written as one of his final major works during a period when English Nonconformists faced continued persecution…
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Petrus van Mastricht · 1679 · Treatise
Petrus van Mastricht's Vindiciae Veritatis et Pacis emerged from the theological turbulence of the late seventeenth century, when Reformed orthodoxy faced challenges from multiple quarters including Cartesian philosophy, Socinian theology, and various…
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Great Concernment The Great Concernment: Or, A Seasonable Inquiry into that Grand Question Whether a Popish Successor May Be Admitted
James Durham · 1679 · Treatise
This treatise emerged from the political and religious crisis surrounding the prospect of James, Duke of York's succession to the English throne. Writing as a Scottish Presbyterian minister during the height of…
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John Flavel · 1679 · Treatise
John Flavel wrote The Touchstone of Sincerity in 1679 as a pastoral guide for Christians struggling to discern the authenticity of their faith. During this period of Puritan spiritual introspection, believers frequently…
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John Flavel · 1679–1701 · Other
John Flavel's collected writings emerged from his pastoral ministry in Dartmouth, Devon, during the tumultuous decades following the English Civil War. A Puritan minister who faced ejection from his parish under the…
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John Bunyan · 1680 · Book
John Bunyan's second major allegory emerged from his pastoral concern for those who claimed Christian faith while living in open contradiction to it. Writing from Bedford in 1680, twelve years after The…
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Madame Jeanne Guyon · 1680–1717 · Letter
The spiritual letters of Jeanne Guyon emerged from decades of correspondence with seekers across France and beyond who sought guidance in contemplative prayer and mystical union with God. Writing primarily between 1680…
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Madame Jeanne Guyon · 1680–1717 · Poem
Poésies et cantiques spirituels is a collection of mystical poetry composed by Madame Jeanne Guyon during her most productive spiritual period, spanning roughly from 1680 to 1717. These verses emerged from Guyon's…
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Stephen Charnock · 1680–1699 · Book
Stephen Charnock's collected works represent the theological legacy of a Puritan divine who died at forty-four, leaving behind manuscripts that would establish him as one of the most rigorous and devotional theologians…
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Thomas Goodwin · 1681 · Commentary
Thomas Goodwin's exposition of Ephesians emerged from his decades of preaching and pastoral work among the Westminster Assembly divines and later as an Independent minister during the Puritan revolution. Writing in the…
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John Flavel · 1681 · Treatise
John Flavel's The Method of Grace emerged from his pastoral work among English Puritans during the tumultuous decades following the English Civil War. As a minister who had witnessed both the fervor…
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John Bunyan · 1682 · Book
John Bunyan's allegorical masterpiece depicts the cosmic battle between good and evil played out in the human soul. Written in Bedford jail where Bunyan spent twelve years for unlicensed preaching, this work…
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John Flavel · 1682 · Treatise
Navigation Spiritualized emerged from John Flavel's pastoral ministry in the seaport town of Dartmouth, where he served a congregation of sailors, merchants, and their families whose lives revolved around maritime trade. Writing…
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Stephen Charnock · 1682 · Treatise
Stephen Charnock's massive treatise emerged from his pulpit ministry at Crosby Hall in London during the 1670s, where he delivered systematic discourses on God's nature to a congregation of nonconformists navigating the…
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Stephen Charnock · 1682 · Treatise
This second volume of Stephen Charnock's collected works gathers the mature theological treatises of one of Puritan England's most rigorous systematic thinkers. Charnock, who served as chaplain to Henry Cromwell in Ireland…
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Petrus van Mastricht · 1682 · Treatise
Van Mastricht's treatise on religion and religions emerged from the pressing theological debates of the late seventeenth century, when Reformed theologians faced challenges from both Roman Catholic apologists and emerging rationalist philosophy.…
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Stephen Charnock · 1683 · Treatise
This treatise represents Stephen Charnock's systematic exploration of regeneration as the foundational work of God in salvation. Written during the height of Puritan theological reflection in the seventeenth century, it addresses the…
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Herman Witsius · 1683 · Treatise
Aegyptiaca is Herman Witsius's ambitious theological treatise examining the religious practices and beliefs of ancient Egypt through the lens of Reformed biblical interpretation. Written in 1683 during the height of European scholarly…
