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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

1656

English

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers

John Owen · 1616–1683

An analysis of indwelling sin and its remedies, containing the instruction that a believer must be killing sin or it will be killing him.

Reformed · DevotionalRomansFull text

1701–1800

The Eighteenth Century

1 work

1777

English

A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

John Wesley · 1703–1791

Wesley assembles thirty years of his own writing to answer his critics on entire sanctification: what he meant by perfection, what he never meant, and why he would not stop preaching it.

Methodist · Theology1 JohnMatthewHebrewsFull text

1801–1900

The Nineteenth Century

1 work

1877

English

Holiness

J. C. Ryle · 1816–1900

Chapters on sin, sanctification, the fight, the cost, and assurance — written in short sentences and plain Saxon words by a bishop who thought most religious writing of his day was too vague to be any use.

Anglican (Evangelical) · TheologyRomans1 JohnHebrewsFull text