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John Wesley’s Christian Library

Fred Sanders
Jan 31, 1819

This is the resource page for studying John Wesley’s thirty-volume, fifteen-thousand-page series called A Christian Library: Consisting of Extracts from and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity That Have Been Published in the English Tongue (reprinted edition, 1819-1826). Below are links to pages dedicated to each of the thirty volumes.

For a fuller account of what Wesley was up to with his Christian Library project, see here. For information about the original fifty-volume edition (1749-1755), see here.

Volume 1:

Preface
Apostolic Fathers
Macarius: Homilies
Johann Arndt: True Christianity

Volume 2:

The Life of John Fox
Fox’s Martyrs

Volume 3:

More Fox’s Martyrs

Volume 4:

Clark’s Supplement to Fox’s Martyrs
Preface to Puritan authors
Bishop Hall
Robert Bolton

Volume 5:

Bolton
Preston

Volume 6:

Preston
Sibbes
Goodwin

Volume 7:

Goodwin
Dell
Manton
Isaac Ambrose

Volume 8:

Isaac Ambrose, Looking unto Jesus

 

Volume 9:

Isaac Ambrose, Looking unto Jesus
Jeremy Taylor, Rules of Holy Living and Dying
Rouse, Academia Coelestis
Culverwell

Volume 10:

Culverwell
Spiritual Opticks; Or A Glass
John Owen: Mortification Of Sin;  Christologia; Communion with God

Volume 11:

John Owen, Of Communion With God
John Smith

Volume 12:

The Whole Duty of Man
William Whateley; Directions for Married Persons
Robert Sanderson
The Life of Bishop Sanderson

Volume 13:

Comparative Religion
Thomas Ken

Volume 14:

Joseph Allein
Samuel Shaw
Westminster Assembly’s Shorter Catechism

Volume 15:

Lives of Various Eminent Persons

Volume 16:

Lives Of Various Eminent Persons
Samuel Rutherford
Horneck; The Happy Ascetic
A Letter To A Person Of Quality

Volume 17:

Hugh Binning; Fellowship With God
Matthew Hale; Contemplations, Moral and Divine
The Christian Sacrifice

Volume 18:

Richard Allein
Vindiciae Pietatis

Volume 19:

Primitive Christianity
John Bunyan; Holy War
A Gospel Glass

Volume 20:

Cowley
Goodman
Robert Leighton

Volume 21:

Isaac Barrow
Matthew Pool

Volume 22:

Richard Baxter; Saints Everlasting Rest

Volume 23:

Molinos; Spiritual Guide
Henry More
Stephen Charnock
Calamy

Volume 24:

Annesley

Volume 25:

Reynolds
Devotions For Every Day Of The Week & Great Festivals

Volume 26:

South
Young
Howe
D’Avila
William Holmes; Country Parson

Volume 27:

Tillotson
Flavel
Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons

 

Volume 28:

John Howe; Living Temple
Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons

Volume 29:

Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons
A Short Exposition Of The Ten Commandments
Francke; Nicodemus

Volume 30:

Norris
Edwards