A Christian Library: Volume 1

by John Wesley

You are about to download Volume 1 of John Wesley's 'A Christian Library - Extracts from and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity Which Have Been Published in the English Tongue', for Kindle or other E-Reader device. Instead of downloading John Wesley's Christian Library in its entirety, we have conveniently broken this monumental work into individual books. This allows you to save more free space on your Kindle/other device and makes for faster searches and quicker navigation. We sincerely hope these features will enhance your studies and maximize your reading experience.In 1750 Wesley published a monolithic 50-volume set of books called A Christian “Extracts from and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity Which Have Been Published in the English Tongue.” In this collection of writings,(condensed into 30 volumes) he mostly ignores the church fathers (represented only by the apostolic fathers and Macarius), the great medieval scholastics, and the reformers. Instead, Wesley focuses on recent centuries (from as far back as the sixteenth up to his contemporaries like Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth), English works (including both Puritans and Established churchmen who took turns persecuting each other), and above all, “Practical Divinity.”Here is a list of contents of John Wesley’s Christian 1: The Apostolic Fathers, Macarius of Egypt, Johann Arndt’s True Christianity.Volume 2: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.Volume 3: Additional Foxe’s Martyrs, with supplements.Volume 4: Additional Foxe supplements, Bishop Hall’s Meditations, extracts from Robert Bolton.Volume 5: Additional Robert Bolton, John Preston.Volume 6: Additional John Preston, Richard Sibs, Thomas Goodwin.Volume 7: Additional Thomas Goodwin, William Dell, Thomas Manton, Isaac Ambrose.Volume 8: Additional Isaac Ambrose (Looking Unto Jesus).Volume 9: Additional Ambrose, Jeremy Taylor, Francis Rouse’s Academia Celestis, Ralph Cudworth, Nathanael Culverwell.Volume 10: Additional Nathanael Culverwell, John Owen (Mortification of Sin, Christologia, Communion with God).Volume 11: Additional John Owen, John Smith.Volume 12: Herbert Palmer, extracts from The Whole Duty of Man, William Whateley, sermons of Bishop Robert Sanderson.Volume 13: James Garden’s Comparative Religion.Volume 14: Pascal’s Pensees, John Worthington’s Self-Resignation, Bishop Ken’s Exposition of the Catechism.Volume 15: Lives of Eminent Christians, chiefly extracted from Clark.Volume 16: Life of Bishop Bedell, Life of Archbishop Butler, Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Anthony Horneck’s Happy Ascetic & Lives of Primitive Christians.Volume 17: Works by Hugh Binning, Matthew Hale, & Simon Patrick’s Christian Sacrifice.Volume 18: Richard Allen (Vindication of Godliness, Rebuke to Backsliders, Necessity of Godly Fear).Volume 19: Dr. Cave’s Primitive Christianity, Bunyan’s Holy War, Stuckley’s Gospel-Glass.Volume 20: Cowley’s Essays, Goodman’s Evening Conference, works by Robert Leighton, Bishop Beveridge.Volume 21: Isaac Barrow, John Brown, Antoinette Bourignon’s Solid Virtue, sermons by Mr. Kitchen & Mr. Pool.Volume 22: Richard Baxter’s Saint’s Everlasting Rest, Edward Crane’s Prospect of Divine Providence.Volume 23: Fenelon, Molinos, Henry More, Stephen Charnock, Dr.

502 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 14, 2011

About the author

John Wesley is recognized as the founder of Methodism. An acclaimed preacher, Wesley travelled extensively on horseback and drew large crowds for his outdoor sermons. A contemporary of William Wilberforce, Wesley was a strong voice opposing slavery in England and the United States. His influence upon modern Christianity can be seen by the large number of Methodist organizations in the Wesleyan tradition all over the world.

Reviews

[Joshua Pearsall · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of works is beautiful. It's history, it's educating, it's spiritually nourishing, a truly edifying collection. From the early Church through John Arndt's writings it is something worth exploring for any & all Christians.