Authors

92 authors across the fifty volumes of A Christian Library.

• Abraham Cowley 1618–1667 Other Seventeenth Century
• Anonymous (the work is sometimes ascribed to George Bull, Bishop of St David's) first published 1680 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Anonymous compiler of Scots-Presbyterian worthies' lives, drawing on the tradition of John Howie's Scots Worthies and the memoirs of the Covenanting ministers Subjects flourished c. 1590–1640; principal figures: Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, 1554–1631; John Welsh of Ayr, c. 1568–1622; Robert Blair, 1593–1666 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Anthony Horneck 1641–1697 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Antoinette Bourignon 1616–1680 Mystic Seventeenth Century
• August Hermann Francke 1663–1727 Lutheran / Pietist Eighteenth Century
• Benjamin Calamy 1642–1686 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Benjamin Jenks 1646–1724 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Blaise Pascal 1623–1662 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• Charles Bonnet; Jonathan Edwards 1720–1793; 1703–1758 Other Eighteenth Century
• Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna fl. c. 96–155 (Clement d. c. 99; Ignatius d. c. 107–117; Polycarp d. c. 155–156) Patristic Early Church
• Cotton Mather 1663–1728 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Edmund Calamy 1671–1732 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Edward Reynolds 1599–1676 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Edward Young 1642–1705 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Francis Rous 1581–1659 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Francisco Losa 1536–1624 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon 1651–1715 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon; Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (Nicolas Herman) Fénelon, 1651–1715; Brother Lawrence, c. 1614–1691 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• George Trosse (with an anonymous continuator) 1631–1713 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Gilbert Burnet 1643–1715 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Henry More 1614–1687 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• Henry Scougal 1650–1678 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Herbert Palmer 1601–1647 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Hugh Binning 1627–1653 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Isaac Barrow 1630–1677 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Izaak Walton 1593–1683 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• James Fraser of Brea 1639–1698 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• James Garden 1645–1726 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jure 1588–1657 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• Jeremy Taylor 1613–1667 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Johann Arndt 1555–1621 Lutheran / Pietist Seventeenth Century
• John Austin 1613–1669 Roman Catholic Seventeenth Century
• John Brown of Wamphray c. 1610–1679 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• John Bunyan 1628–1688 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• John Fell (Life of Hammond); Francisco Losa (Life of Gregory Lopez) Fell 1625–1686; Losa 1530–1599 Other Seventeenth Century
• John Flavel 1627–1691 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• John Foxe 1516/17–1587 Anglican Sixteenth Century
• John Goodman c. 1625/6–1690 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• John Howe 1630–1705 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• John Howe (of Gloucestershire) 1661–1745 Nonconformist Eighteenth Century
• John Kitchin d. 1662 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• John Norris of Bemerton 1657–1711 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• John Owen 1616–1683 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• John Preston 1587–1628 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• John Smith 1618–1652 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• John Tillotson 1630–1694 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• John Worthington 1618–1671 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758 Puritan Eighteenth Century
• Joseph Alleine 1634–1668 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Joseph Hall 1574–1656 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Juan de Ávila 1499–1569 Roman Catholic Sixteenth Century
• Lewis Stuckley 1621/2–1687 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius the Great) c. 300–391 Patristic Early Church
• Mary Henrics (Maria Henrics); François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon Henrics, fl. late 17th c.; Fénelon, 1651–1715 Mystic Seventeenth Century
• Matthew Henry 1662–1714 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Matthew Poole 1624–1679 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Miguel de Molinos c. 1628–1696 Mystic Seventeenth Century
• Nathaniel Culverwell c. 1619–1651 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• Niccolò Balbani (Caracciolus); William Gilpin (Gilpin) Balbani d. 1587; William Gilpin 1724–1804 Continental Reformed Sixteenth Century
• Nicholas Bernard d. 1661 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Nicholas Horsman fl. 1662 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Ralph Cudworth 1617–1688 Cambridge Platonist Seventeenth Century
• Richard Alleine 1611–1681 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Richard Allestree 1621/22–1681 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Richard Baxter 1615–1691 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Richard Lucas 1648–1715 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Richard Sibbes 1577–1635 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Robert Bolton 1572–1631 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Robert Leighton 1611–1684 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Robert Sanderson 1587–1663 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Robert South 1634–1716 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Samuel Annesley c. 1620–1696 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Samuel Clarke 1599–1682 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• Samuel Shaw 1635–1696 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Seth Ward 1617–1689 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Simon Patrick 1626–1707 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Sir Matthew Hale 1609–1676 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Stephen Charnock 1628–1680 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• The Westminster Assembly of Divines 1643–1649 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Thomas Goodwin 1600–1680 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Thomas Hooker 1586–1647 Puritan Seventeenth Century
• Thomas Ken 1637–1711 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• Thomas Manton 1620–1677 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• Various lives; the principal narrative is the autobiography of James Fraser of Brea James Fraser of Brea, 1639–1698; Thomas Wilson of Otham, 1601–1653 Scottish Seventeenth Century
• William Beveridge 1637-1708 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• William Cave 1637–1713 Anglican Seventeenth Century
• William Dell d. 1669 Nonconformist Seventeenth Century
• William Whately 1583–1639 Puritan Seventeenth Century