The Library
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
7 works
1627
Latin
Medulla Theologiae
William Ames · 1576–1633
Theology defined as the doctrine of living to God, organised in tight numbered propositions covering faith and then observance.
1637–1638
English
The New England ministers and Anne Hutchinson's examiners
The trial transcripts of a Boston woman who held meetings to discuss sermons, claimed direct revelation, and was banished from Massachusetts while pregnant.
1640
English
Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld
The psalms turned into metre for singing, with a preface admitting the verse is rough because fidelity to the Hebrew mattered more than polish.
1650; enlarged posthumously 1678
English
Anne Bradstreet · c. 1612–1672
Poems on faith, marriage, the deaths of grandchildren, and the burning of her house — published in London by her brother-in-law without her knowledge.
1682
English
Mary Rowlandson · c. 1637–1711
A minister's wife taken captive by Narragansett and Nipmuc raiders describes eleven weeks of forced marches, hunger, and her attempts to read providence in it.
1693
English
Cotton Mather · 1663–1728
A defence of the Salem trials written at the court's request, warning against spectral evidence while justifying the convictions it had produced.
1700
English
Robert Calef · 1648–1719
A Boston merchant's attack on the Salem proceedings and on the ministers who supported them, printed in London because no Boston press would touch it.
7 of 1774 works