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Selina Hastings · 1821 · Letter
This posthumous collection preserves the personal correspondence of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, who became one of the most influential figures in eighteenth-century evangelical revival. Born into aristocracy but converted through Methodist…
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William Wilberforce · 1823 · Treatise
Wilberforce's final major antislavery treatise emerged from his recognition that the gradual amelioration approach had failed utterly in the decades following Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Written when he…
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Abner Kneeland · 1823 · Scripture
The Kneeland New Testament is a distinct early American translation of the New Testament, associated with the radical religious currents of its time and reflecting the period in which Bible translation in…
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Living Oracles Living Oracles / Sacred Writings
Alexander Campbell, compiling and revising George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge · 1826 · Scripture
A composite revision rather than a wholly fresh translation, this work confines its scope to the New Testament, rendered from the Greek but mediated through earlier English predecessors. Its base text draws…
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Anonymous · 1827 · Poem
The Christian Year is a collection of devotional poems arranged to follow the liturgical calendar of the Anglican Church, first published anonymously in 1827. The work emerged from the Oxford Movement's emphasis…
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Alexander Greaves · 1828 · Scripture
The Greaves New Testament is an independent nineteenth-century English rendering of the New Testament, one of the many efforts that made up the expanding movement of translation work following the King James…
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New Testament Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament
John Gorham Palfrey · 1828 · Scripture
An early American attempt to bring the familiar English of the King James Version into alignment with a modern critical Greek text, Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament covers the New Testament and works…
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Seraphim of Sarov · 1831 · Other
This brief dialogue records a winter afternoon conversation between the Russian monk Seraphim of Sarov and his spiritual son Nicholas Motovilov in 1831. Motovilov had approached the elder with a pressing question…
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Charles Simeon · 1832–1833 · Commentary
Charles Simeon's Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible emerged from his fifty-four years of weekly sermon preparation at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he preached systematically through Scripture from 1782 until his…
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Charles Simeon · 1832–1836 · Sermon
Charles Simeon's Sermon Outlines represents the culmination of a lifetime devoted to biblical exposition and pastoral instruction. Published in the 1830s as Horae Homileticae, this massive collection of 2,536 sermon outlines emerged…
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Rodulphus Dickinson · 1833 · Scripture
The Dickinson New Testament is a distinct nineteenth-century American attempt at rendering the New Testament into a more literary English. Covering the New Testament in full, it was translated from Greek and…
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Seraphim of Sarov · 1833 · Treatise
This treatise emerged from a conversation between the Russian monk Seraphim of Sarov and a layman named Nicholas Motovilov on a winter day in 1833. Motovilov had pressed the elder with a…
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Noah Webster · 1833 · Scripture
The Webster Bible is an early modernization of the complete Bible in King James English, prepared by Noah Webster, America's leading lexicographer and the compiler of its first major dictionary. Covering the…
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Granville Penn · 1836 · Scripture
A scholarly nineteenth-century rendering of the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, this work reflects the early modern development of textual criticism, when comparison of manuscripts…
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Ebenezer Erskine · 1836 · Sermon
This second volume of Ebenezer Erskine's collected works preserves the sermons and theological writings of one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most influential Presbyterian ministers. Erskine served as a pastor in the Church of…
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John Rippon · 1838 · Book
John Rippon's memoir of John Gill emerged from the need to preserve the legacy of one of the eighteenth century's most prolific Baptist theologians and biblical commentators. Published in 1838, decades after…
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Selina Hastings · 1840 · Book
This biography chronicles the remarkable life of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), one of the most influential women in eighteenth-century evangelical Christianity. Written in the immediate aftermath of her death, when…
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Samuel Sharpe · 1840 · Scripture
The Samuel Sharpe Bible was a long-running independent translation project that eventually produced a complete Bible, covering the whole of Scripture. Working directly from the original languages, it takes the Hebrew Old…
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Irenaeus of Lyons · 1841 · Book
For a reader who wants a guided survey of Irenaeus and of second-century church life by topic; dated, and not a substitute for reading him.
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John Tricker Conquest · 1841 · Scripture
The Conquest Bible is a large-scale revision of the wording of the King James Version, covering the complete Bible. It belongs to the tradition of independent attempts to modernize the Authorized Version…
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Lancelot Andrewes · 1841–1843 · Sermon
Lancelot Andrewes' Ninety-Six Sermons represents the collected homiletical legacy of one of the Anglican Church's most learned and influential bishops. Preached primarily during his tenure as Bishop of Winchester in the early…
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Nicholas Ridley · 1841 · Other
The Works of Nicholas Ridley preserves the theological writings, letters, and treatises of one of the most learned Protestant reformers in sixteenth-century England. Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of Rochester and later London, produced…
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Søren Kierkegaard · 1843 · Book
Fear and Trembling emerged from the philosophical and theological ferment of 1843 Denmark, published pseudonymously under the name Johannes de Silentio. This brief but profound meditation on faith takes the form of…
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John Rippon · 1844 · Other
The Comprehensive Rippon Selection emerged from John Rippon's decades-long effort to provide English Baptist congregations with a hymnbook that balanced theological depth with congregational accessibility. As pastor of Carter Lane Baptist Church…
