The Library
1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1501–1600
4 works
1541
French
John Calvin · 1509–1564
Four orders of ministry — pastors, teachers, elders, deacons — with a consistory of ministers and lay elders charged with the discipline of the whole city.
1560
Scots
John Knox and colleagues
A blueprint for a reformed Scotland: a school in every parish, a college in every burgh, universities reformed, and church lands used for ministry, education, and the poor.
1572
English
John Field and Thomas Wilcox
A demand that England abolish bishops, the prayer book's ceremonies, and clerical vestments, and adopt a presbyterian discipline instead.
1593–1597; later books posthumous
English
Richard Hooker · 1554–1600
A defence of the English church against Puritan critics, grounded in a doctrine of law running from eternal law through natural reason to human custom.
1601–1700
1 work
1658
English
The Congregational churches of England
Westminster doctrine with a congregational polity — each gathered church complete in itself, with no authority above it but Christ.
5 of 1780 works