Authors by Tradition

Patristic

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)
Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius the Great) c. 300–391

Anglican

Anonymous (the work is sometimes ascribed to George Bull, Bishop of St David's) first published 1680
Anthony Horneck 1641–1697
Benjamin Calamy 1642–1686
Benjamin Jenks 1646–1724
Edward Reynolds 1599–1676
Edward Young 1642–1705
Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690
Gilbert Burnet 1643–1715
Isaac Barrow 1630–1677
Izaak Walton 1593–1683
Jeremy Taylor 1613–1667
John Foxe 1516/17–1587
John Goodman c. 1625/6–1690
John Tillotson 1630–1694
Joseph Hall 1574–1656
Nicholas Bernard d. 1661
Richard Allestree 1621/22–1681
Richard Lucas 1648–1715
Robert Sanderson 1587–1663
Robert South 1634–1716
Seth Ward 1617–1689
Simon Patrick 1626–1707
Sir Matthew Hale 1609–1676
Thomas Ken 1637–1711
William Beveridge 1637-1708
William Cave 1637–1713

Puritan

Cotton Mather 1663–1728
Francis Rous 1581–1659
Herbert Palmer 1601–1647
Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664
John Preston 1587–1628
Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758
Richard Sibbes 1577–1635
Robert Bolton 1572–1631
Samuel Bolton 1606–1654
The Westminster Assembly of Divines 1643–1649
Thomas Hooker 1586–1647
William Whately 1583–1639

Nonconformist

Edmund Calamy 1671–1732
Edward Reyner 1600–1668
George Trosse (with an anonymous continuator) 1631–1713
John Bunyan 1628–1688
John Flavel 1627–1691
John Howe 1630–1705
John Howe (of Gloucestershire) 1661–1745
John Kitchin and Matthew Poole Kitchin (d. 1662); Poole (1624–1679)
John Owen 1616–1683
Joseph Alleine 1634–1668
Lewis Stuckley 1621/2–1687
Matthew Henry 1662–1714
Richard Alleine 1611–1681
Richard Baxter 1615–1691
Samuel Annesley c. 1620–1696
Samuel Clarke 1599–1682
Samuel Shaw 1635–1696
Stephen Charnock 1628–1680
Thomas Goodwin 1600–1680
Thomas Manton 1620–1677
Thomas Wadsworth 1630–1676
William Dell d. 1669

Scottish

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
Henry Scougal 1650–1678
Hugh Binning 1627–1653
James Fraser of Brea 1639–1698
James Garden 1645–1726
John Brown of Wamphray c. 1610–1679
Robert Leighton 1611–1684
Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661
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

Continental Reformed

Niccolò Balbani (Caracciolus); William Gilpin (Gilpin) Balbani d. 1587; William Gilpin 1724–1804

Lutheran / Pietist

August Hermann Francke 1663–1727
Johann Arndt 1555–1621

Roman Catholic

Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
Francisco Losa 1536–1624
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon 1651–1715
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon; Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (Nicolas Herman) Fénelon, 1651–1715; Brother Lawrence, c. 1614–1691
Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jure 1588–1657
John Austin 1613–1669
Juan de Ávila 1499–1569

Mystic

Antoinette Bourignon 1616–1680
Mary Henrics (Maria Henrics); François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon Henrics, fl. late 17th c.; Fénelon, 1651–1715
Miguel de Molinos c. 1628–1696

Cambridge Platonist

Henry More 1614–1687
John Norris of Bemerton 1657–1711
John Smith 1618–1652
John Worthington 1618–1671
Nathaniel Culverwell c. 1619–1651
Ralph Cudworth 1617–1688

Other

Abraham Cowley 1618–1667
Charles Bonnet; Jonathan Edwards 1720–1793; 1703–1758
John Fell (Life of Hammond); Francisco Losa (Life of Gregory Lopez) Fell 1625–1686; Losa 1530–1599
Various (compiled lives of Reformed divines and worthies) subjects fl. 1583–1669