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John Wesley’s A Christian Library
This is a resource page for those who want to read and study 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 individual pages dedicated to each of the thirty volumes. On those volume-pages are pdfs of the actual volumes to view or download; tables of contents; and a “Description & Discussion” section where I provide information and analysis.
The purpose of this resource project is to provide the basic tools for people to read and study John Wesley’s ambitious editorial project, A Christian Library. Until now, these have not been easy volumes to find online or to make sense of! Along the way, I also develop my own interpretation of what Wesley attempted and accomplished, and I share some notes about points of interest. But the best way to think of this site is as a public tool for others to do their own reading and work.
For a fuller account of what Wesley was up to with his Christian Library project, see this essay, with an annotated bibliography for further research.
For information about the original fifty-volume edition of A Christian Library (1749-1755), see this page, with links to the original fifty volumes.
Apostolic Fathers: Clement, Polycarp, Ignatius
Macarius: Homilies
Johann Arndt: True Christianity
The Life of John Fox
Fox’s Martyrs (from Waldenses)
Fox’s Martyrs
Supplement to Fox’s Martyrs
Clark’s Supplement to Fox’s Martyrs
Preface to Puritan authors
Joseph Hall
Robert Bolton
Robert Bolton
John Preston
John Preston
Richard Sibbes
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
William Dell
Thomas Manton
Isaac Ambrose
Isaac Ambrose
Isaac Ambrose
Jeremy Taylor
Francis Rous
Ralph Cudworth
Nathanael Culverwell
Nathanael Culverwell
John Owen
John Owen
John Smith
Herbert Palmer
[Richard Allestree] Whole Duty of Man
William Whateley
Robert Sanderson
[James Garden] Comparative Religion
Blaise Pascal
John Worthington
Thomas Ken
Joseph Allein
Samuel Shaw
Seth Ward
[Nicholas Horman] Spiritual Bee
Westminster Assembly’s Shorter Catechism
Samuel Clark, Lives of Various Eminent Persons
Lives Of Various Eminent Persons
Samuel Rutherford
Anthony Horneck
Hugh Binning
Matthew Hale
Simon Patrick
Richard Allein
William Cave: Primitive Christianity
John Bunyan: Holy War
[Lewis Stuckley]: A Gospel Glass
Abraham Cowley
John Goodman
Robert Leighton
William Beveridge
Isaac Barrow
John Brown
Mr. Kitchen
Matthew Pool
Richard Baxter; Saints Everlasting Rest
Devotional Tracts from the French: Fenelon, Brother Laurence, Mary Henrics
Louis de Molinos
Henry More
Stephen Charnock
Edmund Calamy
Henry Scougal
Samuel Annesley
Richard Lucas
Edward Reynolds
Devotions For Every Day Of The Week & Great Festivals [Susanna Hopton, ed.]
Robert South
Mr. Young
Charles Howe
Juan D’Avila
Country Parson [William Holmes?]
John Tillotson
John Flavel
Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons
John Howe; Living Temple
Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons
Lives Of Sundry Eminent Persons
[Editorial Transition]
Monsieur de Renty
Joseph Alleine: Letters
Hopkins
Francke; Nicodemus
John Norris
Monsieur Bonnet of Geneva
Jonathan Edwards
