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Augustus Toplady · 1769 · Treatise
This treatise emerged from Augustus Toplady's fierce defense of Calvinist doctrine within the Church of England during the height of the Arminian controversy in the 1760s. Written in response to accusations that…
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John Newton · 1770 · Essay
John Newton's "Review of Ecclesiastical History" emerged from his conviction that ordinary Christians needed to understand the sweep of church history to recognize God's faithfulness across centuries of trial and triumph. Writing…
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William Romaine · 1771 · Book
William Romaine's trilogy represents one of the most systematic treatments of evangelical spirituality to emerge from eighteenth-century Anglican evangelicalism. Written across several years and published together in 1771, these three interconnected treatises…
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George Whitefield · 1771–1772 · Other
This seven-volume collection gathers the sermons, journals, and letters of George Whitefield, the Anglican evangelist whose transatlantic preaching ministry became central to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Published shortly after Whitefield's…
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John Newton · 1774 · Letter
John Newton's Twenty-six Letters to a Nobleman emerged from his correspondence with a young aristocrat who had written to challenge the evangelical clergyman's Christian faith. Published in 1774, these letters represent Newton's…
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William Romaine · 1775 · Sermon
William Romaine's "Sermons Upon the Song of Moses" emerged from his pulpit ministry at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West during the height of the eighteenth-century evangelical revival within the Church of England. These sermons expound…
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Force of Truth The Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative
Thomas Scott · 1779 · Book
The Force of Truth stands as one of the most compelling spiritual autobiographies of the eighteenth century, chronicling Thomas Scott's transformation from religious skeptic to devoted Christian minister. Scott, who would later…
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Thomas Scott · 1780–1820 · Letter
Thomas Scott's correspondence and papers span four decades of Anglican ministry, from his early years as a skeptical curate to his emergence as one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the…
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Cardiphonia Cardiphonia: or the Utterance of the Heart
John Newton · 1781 · Letter
Cardiphonia presents a collection of letters written by John Newton to friends, parishioners, and correspondents seeking spiritual guidance during his decades of pastoral ministry. Newton, the former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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William Wilberforce · 1797 · Book
William Wilberforce wrote this systematic exposition of evangelical Christianity while serving as a member of Parliament and leading the campaign against the slave trade. Published in 1797 during a period when nominal…
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William Wilberforce · 1797 · Book
William Wilberforce wrote this searching examination of contemporary Christianity in 1797, at the height of his parliamentary career and his campaign against the slave trade. The work emerged from his conviction that…
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