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John Wesley · 1766 · Treatise
John Wesley's "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection" emerged from decades of controversy within and beyond Methodism over Wesley's teaching that Christians could attain perfection in love during this life. Published in…
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John Gill · 1767 · Treatise
John Gill's dissertation emerged from eighteenth-century debates about the origins of human language and the reliability of biblical chronology. Writing in 1767, the Baptist minister and biblical scholar faced Enlightenment challenges to…
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Charles Wesley · 1767 · Poem
Charles Wesley's "Hymns for the Use of Families" emerged from his conviction that Christian formation required daily spiritual practices rooted in domestic life. Published in 1767, this collection of hymns was designed…
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Edward Harwood · 1768 · Scripture
The Harwood New Testament is a distinctive attempt to render the New Testament in the polished literary English of the eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from…
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Augustus Toplady · 1769 · Treatise
Augustus Toplady's "Zanchius on Predestination" emerged from the heated theological debates of eighteenth-century England, where Arminian and Calvinist positions clashed over divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Toplady, the Anglican clergyman best known…
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John Gill · 1769 · Book
John Gill's comprehensive systematic theology emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry at Horsleydown Baptist Church in London, where he served from 1720 until his death in 1771. Written in the mature…
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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 Brown of Haddington · 1769 · Book
John Brown of Haddington's Dictionary of the Holy Bible emerged from the practical needs of eighteenth-century Scottish ministerial education and lay Bible reading. Brown, who served as Professor of Divinity at the…
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Gerhard Tersteegen · 1769 · Book
Geistliche Brosamen (Spiritual Crumbs) represents the mature devotional wisdom of Gerhard Tersteegen, the influential German Reformed pietist who spent decades guiding souls in quiet mystical prayer. Published in 1769, near the end…
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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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John Worsley · 1770 · Scripture
The Worsley New Testament is an independent English rendering of the New Testament dating from the late eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it draws on Greek…
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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1771 · Treatise
John Fletcher's Vindiciae Evangelicae emerged from the heated theological controversies that fractured English evangelicalism in the 1770s. As vicar of Madeley and close associate of John Wesley, Fletcher found himself defending Wesleyan…
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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1771 · Treatise
John Fletcher's treatise emerged from his deep concern over what he saw as dangerous antinomian tendencies within eighteenth-century English evangelicalism. Writing as John Wesley's closest theological ally, Fletcher addressed those who claimed…
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John Brown of Haddington · 1771 · Book
John Brown of Haddington's A General History of the Christian Church emerged from the eighteenth-century Scottish Reformed conviction that ordinary believers needed access to the sweep of church history. Writing for his…
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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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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1771–1785 · Book
John Fletcher's collected works emerged from his role as the chief theological defender of John Wesley's Methodist movement during the eighteenth century. A Swiss-born Anglican priest who served the parish of Madeley…
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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 Fletcher of Madeley · 1772 · Treatise
John Fletcher's Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense emerged from the heated theological controversies of 1770s England, when Calvinist critics were mounting sustained attacks against John Wesley's Arminian theology and…
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Augustus Toplady · 1772 · Treatise
Augustus Toplady's "More Work for Mr. John Wesley" emerged from one of the eighteenth century's most bitter theological controversies. Following his earlier attacks on Wesley's Arminian theology, Toplady produced this 1772 treatise…
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Charles Wesley · 1772 · Poem
Charles Wesley penned this devotional poem in 1772, near the end of his extraordinarily productive hymnwriting career. Written during a period when Wesley was increasingly preoccupied with mortality and the state of…
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Thomas Boston · 1773 · Treatise
Thomas Boston wrote this treatise on preaching as a handbook for ministers, drawing its central metaphor from Christ's call to his disciples to become "fishers of men." Boston, a prominent figure in…
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John Fletcher of Madeley · 1773 · Treatise
John Fletcher's "The Portrait of St. Paul" emerged from the theological controversies surrounding Methodist doctrine in the 1770s, particularly debates over Christian perfection and the relationship between faith and works. Writing as…
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Augustus Toplady · 1774 · Treatise
Augustus Toplady's Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England emerged from the heated theological controversies of eighteenth-century Anglicanism, particularly the growing influence of Arminian theology within the established…
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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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