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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

2 works

1650, enlarged 1655

English

Silex Scintillans

Henry Vaughan · 1621–1695

Poems of light, childhood, and the natural world, written in Wales after the death of a brother and the destruction of the church he loved.

Anglican · PoetryRead elsewhere

c. 1670; published 1908

English

Centuries of Meditations

Thomas Traherne · c. 1636–1674

Meditations on the goodness of creation and the recovery of a child's vision, in which the corn is orient and immortal wheat that never should be reaped.

Anglican · MeditationsFull text