John Owen: Learned Puritan

BY MARK BURDEN

The following bibliography of John Owen is the first to list his manuscript writings as well as his printed works. The first section, on Owen’s printed texts, fills a gap in Owen scholarship by keying the seventeenth-century spellings of his works to William Goold’s more readily-available nineteenth-century edition; it also indicates alternative catalogues and bibliographies where further descriptions of each text may be found. The bibliography pays greater attention than previous handlists to early collections of Owen’s writings, and a fuller list of works either responding directly to Owen’s writings, or mentioning them. I have provided tables showing the key sources for Owen’s letters, thereby rectifying an inadequacy in Peter Toon’s 1970 edition of his correspondence. I have also indicated some important printed editions of primary sources for the study of Owen and his times. The lists of secondary sources place Owen firmly within historical and literary as well as theological scholarship, and suggest avenues for future research into Owen’s career as a learned puritan.

 

Part 1: Primary Sources

The following lists of primary sources consist of items either written by Owen, or which make substantial reference to him, or which shed considerable light on his writings. The place of publication is London unless otherwise state. The bibliography includethe following categories:

(1)   Printed Texts, 1643-1793

(2)   Prefaces and Other Short Printed Writings

(3)   Collections of Owen’s Writings

(4)   Manuscript Sermons

(5)   Table of Printed Sermon Texts

(6)   Works Responding to Owen

(7)   The Correspondence of John Owen

(8)   Manuscripts Referring to Owen

           (9)   Printed Primary Sources (pre-1700) Referring to Owen

          (10)  Printed Editions of Primary Sources (post-1700)

 

(1) Printed Texts, 1643-1793

Key:

TC= The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D., ed. Edward Arber, 3 vols. (London, 1903-6)

SR= A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers: From 1640-1708 A.D., ed. Edward Arber, 3 vols. (1913-14)

ESTC = The English Short Title Catalogue

EEBO = Early English Books Online

ECCO = Eighteenth-Century Collections Online

Goold bib. = ‘A List of Dr. Owen’s Works’, in The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, 16 vols. (Edinburgh, 1854), I, cxxi-cxxii

Goold ref. = volume and pagination of text in The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, 16 vols. (Edinburgh, 1854)

Toon = ‘The Works of Dr John Owen’, in Peter Toon, God’s Statesman (Exeter ,1971), 179-81

Tweeddale = John W. Tweeddale, ‘A John Owen Bibliography’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 297-328

*Text not extant, or not certainly by Owen (as indicated)

 

 

TC

ESTC

EEBO/ ECCO

Goold bib.

Goold ref.

Toon

Tweed-dale

[Theomakia Autexousiastike]: Or, A Display of Arminianisme (1643)

SR1.55

y[1]

y

1642

10.1

y

y

The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished (1644)

 

y

y

y

13.1

y

y

The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ: Vnfolded in Two Short Catechismes (1645)

3.202 (’00); 3.363 (’03); 3.473 (’05)

y[2]

y

y

1.463

y

y

A Vision of Vnchangeable Free Mercy (1646)

 

y

y

y

8.1

y

y

A Short Defensative About Church Government(1646) [appended to Vision of ... Mercy]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eben-ezer A Memorial of the Deliverance of Essex, Count, and Committee (1648)

 

y

y

y

8.71

y

y

Eshcol: A Cluster of the Fruit of Canaan (1648)

3.202 (’00);

3.363 (’03); 3.561 (’07)

y[3]

y

1647

13.51

1647

y

Salus Electorum, Sanguis Jesu: Or the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1648)

 

y[4]

y

y

10.139

1647

y

A Sermon Preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament Assembled: On January 31. A day of Solemn Humiliation. With a Discourse about Toleration (1649)

 

y[5]

y

y

8.127

y

y

[Ouranon Ourania.] The Shaking and Translating of Heaven and Earth (1649)

 

y[6]

y

y

8.243

y

y

*Human Power Defeated: A Sermon (1649) [untraced]

 

 

 

y

 

 

 

Certaine Treatises written by John Owen M. A. Sometimes of Queens College in Oxford, Now Pastor of the Church at Coggeshall in Essex. Formerly Published at Severall Times, now Reduced into One Volume, viz.

  1. A Display of the Errours of the Arminians
  2. Salus electorum Sanguis Jesu
  3. The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
  4. [Five sermons: on Acts 16:11 to the House of Commons, 29 April 1646; two on Hab. 3:1-9, September 1648; Jeremiah 15:19-20: House of Commons, 31 January 1648 with discourse about Toleration; Hebrews 12:27: House of Commons, 19 April 1649]

(London, 1649)

 

 

 

 

 

 

y

The Branch of the Lord, the Beauty of Sion (Edinburgh, 1650)

 

y

y

y

8.281

y

y

Of the Death of Christ ... Vindicated from the Exceptions, and Objections of Mr Baxter (1650)

 

y[7]

y

y

10.429

y

y

The Stedfastness of Promises, and the Sinfulness of Staggering (1650)

 

y[8]

y

y

8.207

y

y

The Advantage of the Kingdome of Christ in the Shaking of the Kingdoms of the VVorld (Oxford, 1651)

 

y[9]

y

y

8.311

y

y

The Labovring Saints Dismission to Rest. A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Right Honourable Henry Ireton (1652)

 

1652

y

1652

8.341

y

y

A Sermon Preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A Day of Solemn Humiliation. Concerning the Kingdome of Christ, and the Power of the Civile Magistrate (Oxford, 1652)

 

y

y

y

8.365

y

y

[Divers ministers of the Gospel], Proposals for the Furtherance and Propagation of the Gospel in this Nation (1652 or 1653)

 

1653 [-52]

y

 

 

1653

 

[Owen, Goodwin, Nye, Sympson, and other ministers], The Humble Proposals of [those], who Presented the Petition to the Parliament (1652)

 

y

y

 

 

y

 

The Primer: Or, an Easie Way to Teach Children the True Reading of English. With a Necessary Catechisme, to Instruct Youth in the Grounds of Christian Religion. Also choice Places of Scripture (1652)

 

y

y

 

 

 

y

Diatriba de justitia divina. seu iustitiae vindicatricis vindiciae (Oxford, 1653)

 

y

y

y

 

y

y

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance, Explained and Confirmed (Oxford, 1654)

 

y

y

y

11.1

y

y

Of the Death of Christ and of Justification (1655)

 

 

 

 

12.591

 

 

Vindiciae Evangelicae: Or, the Mystery of the Gospell Vindicated, and Socinianisme Examined, in the Consideration, and Confutation of ... J. Biddle (1655)

 

y

y

y

12.1

y

y

A Review of the Annotations of Hugo Grotius, in Reference unto the Doctrine of the Deity, and Satisfaction of Christ (Oxford, 1656)

 

y

y

y

12.617

y

y

God’s Work in Founding Zion, and His Peoples Duty Thereupon. A Sermon Preached ... at the Opening of the Parliament, Septemb. 17th 1656. (Oxford, 1656)

 

y

y

y

8.397

y

y

God’s Presence with a People, the Spring of their Prosperity; With their Speciall Interest in Abiding with Him. A Sermon, Preached to the Parliament ... Octob. 30. 1656. (1656)

 

y

y

y

8.427

y

y

Of the Mortification of Sinne in Believers ... with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience (Oxford, 1656)

 

y[10]

y

y

6.1

y

y

Of Communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, Each Person Distinctly, in Love, Grace, and Consolation: Or, the Saints Fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, Unfolded (Oxford, 1657)

3.202-3 (’00)

y[11]

y

y

2.1

y

y

Of Schisme the True Nature of it Discovered and Considered, with Reference to the Present Differences in Religion (Oxford, 1657)

 

y

y

y

13.89

y

y

A Review of the True Nature of Schisme, with a Vindication of the Congregationall Churches in England, from the Imputation Thereof Unjustly Charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey (Oxford, 1657)

 

y

y

y

13.207

y

y

Answer to a Late Treatise of Mr Cawdrey about the Nature of Schism(1658): prefixed to John Cotton, A Defence of Mr. John Cotton (Oxford, 1658)

 

 

 

y

13.277

y

y

[elders and messengers], A Declaration of the Faith and Order Owned and Practised in the Congregational Churches in England; Agreed upon and Consented unto by their Elders and Messengers in their Meeting at the Savoy, Octob. 12. 1658. (1658/9)

 

1659[12]

y

 

 

 

 

Of Temptation, the Nature and Povver of it. The Danger of Entring into it. And the Meanes of Preventing that Danger. With a Resolution of Sundry Cases thereunto belonging (Oxford, 1658)

 

y[13]

y

 

6.87

y

y

Of the Divine Originall, Authority, Self-Evidencing Light, and Povver of the Scriptvres ... Also a Vindication of the Purity and Integrity of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Old and New Testament; in some Considerations on the ... Biblia Polyglotta(Oxford, 1659)

 

y

y

y

16.281

y

y

A Vindication of the Hebrew and Greek Texts (1659) [contained in previous work]

 

 

 

[y]

16.345

y

 

Exercitationes adversus fanaticos (1659) [contained in Divine Original]

 

 

 

y

 

1658

 

The Glory and Interest of Nations Professing the Gospel. Opened in a Sermon preached at a Private Fast to the Commons (1659)

 

y

y

y

8.453

y

y

On the Power of the Magistrate about Religion (1659) [alternative title: Unto the Questions sent me last night ...]

 

1659

[y]

y

13.507

y

y

*Bradshaws Ultimum Uale, Being the Last Words that are Ever Intended to be Spoke of Him. As they were Delivered in a Sermon Preach’d at his Interrment. By J. O. D. D. Time-Server General of England (Oxon, 1659 or 1660) [perhaps a satire on Owen, not written by him]

 

 

[y]

 

 

 

 

[Theologoumena Pantodapa.] sive De natvra, ortv, progressv, et stvdio verae theologiae libri sex (Oxford, 1661)

 

y

y

y

17.1

y

y

Biblical Theology: or The Nature, Origin, Development, and Study of Theological Truth, ed. Stephen P. Wetcott (Morgan, PA, 1994)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[anon.], Discovrse concerning Liturgies, and their Imposition (1662)

 

y

y

y

15.1

y

y

[anon.], Animadversions on a Treatise intituled Fiat Lux: Or, a Guide in Differences of Religion, between Papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and Independent (1662)

 

y

y

y

14.1

y

y

A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux (1664)

 

y

y

y

14.173

y

y

[anon.], A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, and Discipline of the Churches of the New Testament, by way of Question and Answer; with an Explication and Confirmation of those Answers (1667)

1.502 (’82); 2.238

y[14]

y

y

15.445

y

y

[anon.], A Peace-Offering in an Apology and Humble Plea for Indvlgence and Libertie of Conscience (1667)

 

y

y

y

13.541

y

y

[anon.], Indvlgence and Toleration Considered: in a Letter unto a Person of Honour (1667)

 

y

y

y

13.517

y

y

Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews ... With an Exposition and Discourses on the Two First Chapters (1668)

 

y[15]

y

y

(1)

y

y

The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the Remainders of Indwelling-Sin in Believers (1668)

1.192 (’74)

y[16]

y

y

6.153

1667

y

A Practical Exposition on the 130th Psalm. Wherein the Nature of the Forgiveness of Sin is Declared (1669)

1.12; 1.391; 1.434

y[17]

y

1668

6.323

y

y

A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity: As Also of the Person and Satisfaction of Christ (1669)

1.8; 1.248

y[18]

y

y

2.365

y

y

[anon.], Truth and Innocence Vindicated: In a Survey of a Discourse concerning Ecclesiastical Polity (1669)

 

y

y

y

13.343

y

y

[*]Reflections on a Slanderous Libel (1670) [17th-century copy not found]

 

 

 

 

16.269

y

y

An Account of the Grounds and Reasons on which Protestant Dissenters Desire Liberty (1670)

 

 

 

 

13.575

y

y

Exercitations concerning the Name, Original, Nature, Use and Continuance of a Day of Sacred Rest (1671)

1.65

y

y

y

 

y

y

[anon.], A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church-Peace and Unity (1672)

2.586 (’96)

y[19]

y

y

15.57

y

y

*A New and Useful Concordance to the Holy Bible (1673)

1.144[20]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[anon.], A Vindication of Some Passages in a Discourse concerning Communion with God, from the Exceptions of William Sherlock (1674)

1.176

y

y

y

2.275

y

y

Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrevvs, concerning the Priesthood of Christ ... With a Continuation of the Exposition on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Chapters (1674)

 

y

y

y

(2)

y

y

[Pneumatologia:] Or, a Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit (1674)

1.176

y[21]

y

y

3.1

y

y

How we may Bring our Hearts to Bear Reproof (1674) [in Morning Exercise]; 2 other sermons, Goold 8.497, 8.547

1.184

 

 

y

8.473

y

 

The Nature of Apostasie from the Profession of the Gospel, and the Punishment of Apostates Declared, in an Exposition of Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. (1676)

1.245

y

y

y

7.1

y

y

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, Explained, Confirmed, & Vindicated (1677)

1.280

y[22]

y

y

5.1

y

y

The Reason of Faith. Or an Answer unto that Enquiry, Wherefore we Believe the Scripture to be the Word of God (1677)

1.288

y[23]

y

y

4.3

y

 

[Synesis pneumatike:] Or the Causes, Waies & Means of Understanding the Mind of God (1678)

1.329

y

y

y

4.117

y

y

[Christologia,] Or, a Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man (1679)

1.381 [’80]

y[24]

y

y

1.1

1678

y

The Church of Rome No Safe Guide (1679)

 

y[25]

y

y

14.481

y

y

[anon.], A Brief Vindication of the Non-Conformists from the Charge of Schisme ... by Dr. Stillingfleet (1680)

1.401

y

y

y

13.303

y

y

A Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews. Viz. on the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Chapters (1680)

1.400; 1.401; 1.435

y[26]

y

y

(3)

y

y

[anon.], Some Considerations about Union among Protestants, and the Preservation of the Interest of the Protestant Religion in this Nation (1680)

1.435 (’81)

y

y

y

14.517

y

y

An Enquiry into the Original, Nature, Institution, Power, Order and Communion of Evangelical Churches, The First Part. With an Answer to the Discourse of the Unreasonableness of Separation Written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet (1681)

1.437; 2.586 (’96)

y[27]

y

y

15.187

y

y

An Humble Testimony unto the Goodness and Severity of God in his Dealings with Sinful Churches and Nations (1681)

1.489

y[28]

y

y

8.593

y

y

[Phronema tou pneumatos] or the Grace and Duty of being Spiritually-Minded (1681)

1.489

y[29]

y

y

7.261

y

y

*Defence of the Vindication (1681) [mentioned by Goold; unclear which text he means]

 

 

 

y

 

 

 

*Clinicus resurgens: Or, the Infirm Man Made Whole. A Sermon (1681) [attributed, perhaps erroneously, by ESTC]

 

y[30]

 

 

 

 

 

[anon.], A Brief and Impartial Account of the Nature of the Protestant Religion (1682)

2.311 (’90)

y[31]

y

1683

14.529

y

y

A Discourse of the Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer (1682)

1.469

y[32]

y

y

4.235

y

y

[anon.], A Short and Plain Answer to Two Questions: I. Where was your Religion before Luther? II. How Know you the Scriptures to be the Word of God? (1682)

 

y

y

 

 

 

 

[anon.], The Case of Present Distresses on Non-conformists, Examined (1682)

 

 

 

 

13.579

 

 

The Chamber of Imagery (1683) [in Morning Exercise]

 

x[33]

 

y

 

y

y

[anon.], A Letter Concerning the Matter of the Present Excommunications (1683)

 

 

y

 

16.209

y

y?

The Holy and Profitable Sayings of that Learned and Reverend Divine, Dr. John Owen (1683)

 

y

 

 

 

 

 

A Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle ... to the Hebrews ... Eleventh, ... Thirteenth Chapters (1684)

 

y

y

y

(4)

y

y

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, vol. 1 (1684)

2.41 (’83); 2.586 (’96)

y[34]

 

y

1.274

y

y

Bibliotheca Oweniana (1684)

 

y

 

 

 

 

 

A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace (1688)

2.229

y[35]

y

y

7.499

y

y

The True Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government (1689)

2.269; 3.194 (’00); 3.561 (’07)

y

y

y

16.1

y

y

Seasonable Words for English Protestants (1690)

 

y

 

 

9.1

y

y

Meditation on the Glory of Christ, Part 2 (1691)

2.356; 2.377

y

 

y

1.417

y

y

A Guide to Church-Fellowship and Order. According to the Gospel-Institution (1692)

3.553 (’07)

y[36]

y

 

 

y

y

Two Discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His Work. The One, of the Spirit as a Comforter. The Other, as He is the Author of Spiritual Gifts (1693)

2.474

y[37]

y

y

4.351

y

y

Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God’s Elect (1695)

2.555-6

y[38]

y

y

5.401

y

y

Seventeen Sermons Preach’d by the Late Reverend and Learned John Owen, D. D., 2 vols. (1720)

 

y

y

y

 

 

y

An Answer to Two Questions; with Twelve Arguments against any Conformity to Worship not of Divine Institution (1720)

 

y

 

y

 

y

y

A Complete Collection of the Sermons of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, D. D. (1721)

 

y

y

 

9.357

y

y

The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned John  Owen, D. D. (1721)

 

y

y

y

 

 

y

Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Works of the Late Reverend and Learned John Owen, D.D. (1725)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Discourses Delivered at the Lord’s Table (1750)

 

 

 

 

17.595

y

 

Imputation of the Sins of the Church unto Christ, Grounded upon her Mystical Union with Him. In an Extract from Dr. Owen on Justification (1752)

 

y

 

 

 

 

 

Thirteen Sermons Preached on Various Occasions (1756)

 

y

y

y

9.407;

17.491

y

y

Twenty Five Discourses Suitable to the Lord’s Supper, Delivered Just Before the Administration of that Sacred Ordinance (1760)

 

y[39]

y

y

9.517

y

y

Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, a New, Elegant, and Correct Edition of that Very Scarce and Valuable Work, Dr. John Owen’s Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Twelve Handsome Octavo Volumes([1780?])

 

y

 

 

 

 

 

An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews; with the Preliminary Exercitations. ... Revised and Abridged; ... By Edward Williams. In Four Volumes(1790)

 

y[40]

 

 

 

 

 

Prophetical Extracts; Particularly Such as Relate to the Revolution in France, and the Decline of the Papal Power in the World: Selected from Fleming, ... and Dr. John Owen ... 1649(1793)

 

y

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Reprinted 1721 (ESTC).

[2] Reprinted 1684, [1700]; Glasgow, 1783 (ESTC).

[3] Reprinted 1655, 1684, 1700, [1720?]; Boston, 1744; London, [1764]; Boston, [1771]; London, 1778 (ESTC).

[4] Reprinted Edinburgh, 1755; abridged version London, [1770?]; Carlisle, 1792; Falkirk, 1799 (ESTC).

[5] Reprinted 1720 (ESTC).

[6] Reprinted London, 1793; Edinburgh, 1794; Monaghan, 1795; Belfast, 1795, 1797 (ESTC).

[7] Reprinted 1721 (ESTC).

[8] Reprinted 1720 (ESTC).

[9] Also printed at London, 1651; Leith, 1652 (ESTC).

[10] Reprinted Oxford, 1658; London, 1668, 1721, 1783; Mwythig, in Werlsh, as Marweiddiad pechod mewn credinwyr, 1796 (ESTC).

[11] Reprinted 1700; Glasgow, 1763, 1770, 1792 (ESTC).

[12] Reprinted 1688 (ESTC).

[13] Reprinted 1721; Glasgow, 1758; Paisley, 1772 (ESTC).

[14] Reprinted 1676, 1688 (ESTC).

[15] Reprinted 1676 (ESTC).

[16] Reprinted 1675, 1732; Glasgow, 1758; Paisley, 1772; London, 1774, 1792; Philadelphia, 1793 (ESTC).

[17] Reprinted 1680; Edinburgh, 1749; Glasgow, 1772; London, 1772; Edinburgh, 1798 (ESTC).

[18] Reprinted 1676, 1719; Glasgow, 1798 (ESTC).

[19] Reprinted 1696 (ESTC).

[20] TC says by Owen; no other evidence.

[21] Reprinted Glasgow, 1791; Coventry, 1792; Glasgow, 1792; Falkirk, 1798 (ESTC).

[22] Reprinted Glasgow, 1760; Coventry, 1797 (ESTC).

[23] Abridged by John Kirkpatrick, Coventry, 1799 (ESTC).

[24] Reprinted 1721; Glasgow, 1757; Edinburgh, 1772 (ESTC).

[25] Reprinted 1717; Glasgow, 1790 (ESTC).

[26] Reprinted 1681 (ESTC).

[27] Reprinted 1696; extracts Edinburgh, 1797 (ESTC).

[28] Reprinted Edinburgh, 1737; Glasgow, 1758; London, 1768; Edinburgh, 1796 (ESTC).

[29] Reprinted 1717; Glasgow, 1756; London, 1798 (ESTC).

[30] ESTC says by Owen; no other evidence.

[31] Reprinted 1690 (ESTC).

[32] Reprinted Glasgow, 1757 (ESTC).

[33] Reprinted 1712 (ESTC).

[34] Another version 1696; reprinted 1717; Edinburgh, 1750 ; London, 1757, 1764, 1765; Edinburgh, 1772; Glasgow, 1790; Sheffield, 1792 (ESTC).

[35] Reprinted Edinburgh, 1739 (ESTC).

[36] Reprinted 1778 (ESTC).

[37] Reprinted Glasgow, 1792 (ESTC).

[38] Reprinted 1709, 1718 (ESTC).

[39] Reprinted Edinburgh, 1774; Glasgow, 1775, 1797; Edinburgh, 1798 (ESTC).

[40] Reprinted 1791 (ESTC).

 

(2) Prefaces and Other Short Printed Writings

Title

Source

Samuel Eaton, The Mystery of God Incarnate (1650)

ESTC

William Eyre, Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae (1654)

ESTC

John Cotton, A Defence of Mr. John Cotton (Oxford, 1658)

ESTC

James Durham, Clavis cantici (1669)

ESTC

Theophilus Gale, The True Idea of Jansenisme (1669)

ESTC

Henry Lukin, An Introduction to the Holy Scripture (1669)

ESTC

Joseph Caryl, The Nature and Principles of Love as the End of the Commandment (1673)

TC1.146

Edward Polhill, The Divine Will considered in its Eternal Decrees and Holy Execution of them (1674)

TC1.162

Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace (1674)

TC1.174

James Durham, The Law Unsealed, 3rd edition (Edinburgh, 1676)

ESTC

Elisha Coles, A Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty (1678)

ESTC

Bartholomew Ashwood, The Best Treasure, or the Way to be Truly Rich (1680)

TC1.414

Stephen Lobb, The Glory of Free Grace Display’d (1681)

TC1.438

 

 

 

(3) Collections of Owen’s Writings

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Title

Goold ref.

Certaine Treatises written by John Owen M. A. Sometimes of Queens College in Oxford, Now Pastor of the Church at Coggeshall in Essex. (London, 1649?)

Formerly Published at Severall Times, now Reduced into One Volume, viz.

1.      A Display of the Errours of the Arminians

2.      Salus electorum Sanguis Jesu

3.      The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished

4.      [Five sermons: on Acts 16:11 to the House of Commons, 29 April 1646; two on Hab. 3:1-9, September 1648; Jeremiah 15:19-20: House of Commons, 31 January 1648 with discourse about Toleration; Hebrews 12:27: House of Commons, 19 April 1649]

 

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Seventeen Sermons Preach’d by the Late Reverend and Learned John Owen, D. D., 2 vols. (1720)

  1. A Vision of Free Mercy, 1646
  2. Eben-Ezer, 1648 [2 sermons]
  3. [sermon 2]
  4. A Sermon preach’d to the ... Commons, 1648
  5. [Ouranon ourania], 1649
  6. The Branch of the Lord, 1650 [2 sermons]
  7. [sermon 2]
  8. The Advantage of the Kingdom of Christ, 1651
  9. The Labouring Saint’s Dismission to Rest, 1651
  10. A Sermon Preached to the Parliament, 1652
  11. God’s Work in Founding Zion, and his Peoples Duty Thereupon, 1656
  12. God’s Presence with a People, the Spring of their Prosperity, 1656
  13. The Glory and Interest of Nations Professing the Gospel, [n.d.]
  14. How we may Bring our Hearts to Bear Reproofs, 1674
  15. A Sermon Preach’d at the Morning-Exercise at Cripple-Gate, 1682
  16. Seasonable Words for English Protestants, [n.d.]
  17. An Answer unto Two Questions ... with Twelve Arguments against any Conformity to Worship, not of Divine Institution, [n.d.]

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A Complete Collection of the Sermons of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, D. D. (1721)

  • Memoirs of Dr. Owen’s Life, i
  • His Letters, xlii
  • Funeral Sermon, by Mr. David Clarkson, lii
  • The Nature and Beauty of Gospel Worship, 2 sermons, 1
  • [second sermon]
  • Of Walking Humbly with God, 5 sermons, 5 sermons, 20
  • [second sermon]
  • [third sermon]
  • [fourth sermon]
  • [fifth sermon]
  • Providential Changes an argument for universal Holiness, 4 sermons, 49
  • [second sermon]
  • [third sermon]
  • [fourth sermon]
  • Human Power defeated, 79
  • The Sin and Judgment of Spiritual Barrenness, 2 sermons, 91
  • [second sermon]
  • God’s withdrawing his Presence, the Correction of his Church, 102
  • Perilous Times, 110
  • The Evil and Danger of Offences, 119
  • Christ’s Pastoral Care, 122
  • The Beauty and Strength of Zion, 131
  • The Divine Power of the Gospel, 2 sermons, 139
  • [second sermon]
  • Christ the Saints Rock, 2 sermons, 152
  • [second sermon]
  • A Christian God’s Temple, 164
  • The Christian’s Work of Dying Daily, 3 sermons, 180
  • [second sermon]
  • [third sermon]
  • A Vision of unchangeable, free Mercy, 192
  • A Country Essay for the Practice of Church Government there, 215
  • Ebenezer, 233
  • Righteous Zeal encouraged by Divine Protection, 269
  • A Discourse of Toleration, 290
  • The Shaking and Translating of Heaven and Earth, 317
  • The Stedfastness of Promises, 339
  • The Strength of faith, 2 sermons, 359
  • [second sermon]
  • The Branch of the Lord, the Beauty of Zion, 380
  • The Advantage of the Kingdom of Christ, 397
  • The Labouring Saint’s Dismission to Rest, 415
  • Christ’s Kingdom, and the Magistrate’s Power, 428
  • God’s Work in founding Sion, 446
  • God’s Presence, a People’s Prosperity, 464
  • A Gospel Profession, the Glory of a Nation, 478
  • How we may learn to bear Reproofs, 489
  • The Chamber of Imagery in the Church of Rome laid open, 501
  • Seasonable Words for English Protestants, 529

a)      Several practical Cases of Conscience resolved, in XIV. Discourses, 539

b)      Of marrying after Divorce in Case of Adultery, 572

c)      Of Infant Baptism, and Dipping, 575

d)     A Word of Advice to the Citizens of London, 583

e)      The State of the Kingdom, with Respect to the Bill against Conventicles, 588

f)       An Account of the Grounds and Reasons on which Protestant Dissenters desire their Liberty, 592

g)      The Case of present Distresses on Nonconformists examin’d, 594

h)      A Letter concerning the Matter of the present Excommunications, 597

i)        A Discourse concerning the Administration of Church Censures, 605

j)        Reflections on a slanderous Libel against Dr. Owen, in a Letter to Sir Thomas Overbury, 615

  • Orationes sex Oxonii habitæ, (1)

 

 

 

 

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The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned John  Owen, D. D.(1721)

  1. A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man
  2. Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  3. Of In-Dwelling Sin in Believers
  4. Of Temptation; the Nature and Power of it
  5. Of Mortification of Sin in Believers
  6. Of the Death of Christ
  7. A Display of Arminianism

 

Thirteen Sermons Preached on Various Occasions(1756)

  1. Two Sermons on the Everlasting Convenant
  2. [sermon two]
  3. Three Sermons preached at the Ordination of Ministers
  4. [sermon two]
  5. [sermon three]
  6. Four Sermons upon the Excellency of Christ
  7. [sermon two]
  8. [sermon three]
  9. [sermon four]
  10. Four Sermons upon the Use and Advantage of Faith
  11. [sermon two]
  12. [sermon three]
  13. [sermon four]

9.409

 

9.431

9.441

9.452

9.462

 

 

 

9.490

9.498

9.505

9.510

Twenty Five Discourses Suitable to the Lord’s Supper, Delivered Just Before the Administration of that Sacred Ordinance(1760)

 

Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, a New, Elegant, and Correct Edition of that Very Scarce and Valuable Work, Dr. John Owen’s Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Twelve Handsome Octavo Volumes([1780?])

 

An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews; with the Preliminary Exercitations. ... Revised and Abridged; ... By Edward Williams. In Four Volumes(1790)

 

The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, 16 vols. (Edinburgh, 1854)

 

 

 

(4) Manuscript Sermons

Location

Date

Text

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

9 January 1669

Hebrews 3:15-18

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

23 January 1669

Hebrews 3:15-18

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

7 February 1669

Hebrews 3:15-18

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

6 March 1669

Hebrews 4:1-2

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

15 August 1669

Hebrews 3:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Hebrews 3:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

26 September 1669

Hebrews 3:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d]

Hebrews 3:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

28 November 1669

Hebrews 3:13-14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Hebrews 3:13-14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Hebrews 3:13-14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Hebrews 3:13-14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

18 February 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

4 March 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

18 March 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

1 April 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

20 May 1670

Romans 1:16

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

22 May 1670

Romans 1:16

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

3 June 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

17 June 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

16 September 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

30 September 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

28 October 1670

John 3:3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

19 November 1671

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

11 February 1672

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

24 February 1672

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

12 November 1672

Hebrews 11:35

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

13 May 1673

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

27 May 1673

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

5 June 1673

Collossians 3:14?

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

11 July 1673

2 Peter 3:11

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

29 July 1673

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

12 August 1673

Hebrews 12:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

19 September 1673

1 Thessalonians 3

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

16 October 1673

Micah 7:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

27 March 1674

2 Corinthians 6:16-18

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

23 May 1674

Ephesians 4:14-16; Collosians 2:19

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

29 May 1674

1 Thessalions 4:1

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Philippians 3:17

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/2

[n.d.]

Discourse on the lawfulness of marriage

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

18 October 1677

Psalm 90:2, or 90:11?

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

13 March 1678

1 Peter 4:17

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/4

30 April 1678

Discourse: abstaining from public workshop

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

30 May 1678

1 Peter 4:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/4

8 January 1679

Jeremiah 13:16

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/4

5 December 1679

Discourse: renewal of covenant

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

4 February 1680

Luke 19:41-4

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

27 August 1680

Psalm 40:2

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

22 December 1680

Jeremiah 51:5

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

25 March 1681

James 5:16

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

8 April 1681

Amos 4:12

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

10 February 1682

Isaiah 26:9

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

10 March 1682

Luke 21:7

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

31 March 1682

Luke 21:7

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

5 May 1682

1 Peter 4:14

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/1/16

30 June 1682

Isaiah 45:11

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/3

22 September 1682

Malachi 3:7

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/4

[n.d.]

Hebrews 12:15

Dr Williams’s Library NCL, MS L6/4

23 December 1682

Ezra 9:13-14

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Ezekiel 22:17-22

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Psalm 14:6

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Habakkuk 2:1-4

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Isaiah 40:31

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

2 Peter 3:11

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Ephesians 14:15-16

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Isaiah 3:8-9

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Isaiah 57:1-2

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Philippians 2:5-8

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Genesis 5:24

Hartopp MS (1755), in OW, XVI/XVII (1854)

[n.d.]

Isaiah 8:17

 

 

(5) Table of Printed Sermon Texts

Text

Title

Date

Goold ref.

Acts 16:9

Unchangeable Free Mercy

1646

8.2

Habakkuk 3:1-9

Eben-ezer

1648

8.72

Jeremiah 15:19-20

 A Sermon ... in Parliament [Righteous Zeal]

1649

8.128

Hebrews 12:27

[Ouranon ourania]

1649

8.244

Romans 4:20

Stedfastness

1650

8.211

Isaiah 56:7

Branch of the Lord

1650

8.282

Ezekiel 17:24

Advantage of the Kingdom

1651

8.312

Daniel 12:13

Labouring Saints Dismission

1651

8.342

Daniel 7:15-16

A Sermon preached to the Parliament ... Concerning the Kingdome of Christ

1652

8.366

Isaiah 14:32

God’s Work in Founding Zion

1656

8.398

2 Chronicles 15:2

God’s Presence with a People

1656

8.428

Isaiah 4:5

The Glory and Interest of Nations

1659

8.454

Psalm 141:5

How we may Bring our Hearts to Bear Reproofs[Morning-Exercise]

 

8.474

Luke 16:29

The Testimony of the Church[Morning-Exercise]

 

8.497

1 Peter 2:3

The Chamber of Imagery[Morning-Exercise]

 

8.547

Luke 13:1-5

An Humble Testimony

1681

8.594

Jeremiah 51:5

Seasonable Words

1690

9.2

Romans 4:20

‘The Strength of Faith’

1721 (2)

9.19

Ephesians 2:18

‘The Nature and Beauty of Gospel Worship’

1721 (2)

9.53

Micah 6:8

‘Of Walking Humbly with God’

1721 (5)

9.84

2 Peter 3:11

‘Providential Changes’

1721 (4)

9.131

Ezekiel 47:11

‘The Sin and Judgment of Spiritual Barrenness’

1721 (2)

9.179

Psalm 76:5

‘Human Power Defeated’

1721

9.197

Romans 1:16

‘The Divine Power of the Gospel’

1721 (2)

9.217

Psalm 61:2

‘God the Saints’ Rock’

1721 (2)

9.237

Colossians 3:14

‘Gospel Charity’

1721

9.256

Micah 7:14

‘Christ’s Pastoral Care’

1721

9.271

2 Corinthians 6:16-18

‘A Christian, God’s Temple’

1721

9.285

Isaiah 63:17

‘God’s Withdrawing his Presence’

1721

9.296

Psalm 48:12-14

‘The Beauty and Strength of Zion’

1721

9.307

2 Timothy 3:1

‘Perilous Times’

1721

9.320

1 Corinthians 15:31

‘The Christian’s Work of Dying Daily’

1721 (3)

9.334

Matthew 18:7

‘The Evil and Danger of Offences’

1721

9.352

2 Samuel 23:5

‘Two Sermons on the Everlasting Covenant’

1756 (2)

9.409

Ephesians 4:8

‘Three Sermons preached at Ordination of Ministers’

1756

9.431

1 Corinthians 12:11

[sermon 2]

1756

9.441

Jeremiah 3:15

[sermon 3]

1756

9.452

Psalm 45:1-3

‘Four Sermons upon the Excellency of Christ, &c.’

1756 (4)

9.462

Habakkuk 2:4

‘Four Sermons upon the Use and Advantage of Faith’

1756

9.490

Habakkuk 2:4

[sermon 2]

1756

9.498

Habakkuk 2:4

[sermon 3]

1756

9.505

Habakkuk 2:4

[sermon 4]

1756

9.510

2 Corinthians 5:21

Discourse 1

1760

9.521

1 Corinthians 10:16

Discourses 2-3

1760 (2)

9.523

1 Corinthians 11:26

Discourse 4

1760

9.538

1 Corinthians 11:28

Discourses 5-6

1760 (2)

9.544

1 Corinthians 11:24

Discourse 7

1760

9.563

1 Peter 3:18

Discourse 8

1760

9.566

Matthew 28:17

Discourse 9

1760

9.569

Matthew 28:20

Discourse 10

1760

9.571

Isaiah 53:11

Discourse 11

1760

9.576

Philippians 3:10

Discourse 12

1760

9.579

1 Corinthians 11:23-6

Discourses 13-14

1760 (2)

9.582

John 12:32

Discourse 15-16

1760 (2)

9.592

Leviticus 16:21

Discourse 17

1760

9.597

Galatians 2:20

Discourses 18-19

1760 (2)

9.600

Romans 5:5

Discourse 20

1760

9.606

Ephesians 3:19

Discourse 21

1760

9.609

Matthew 3:17

Discourse 22

1760

9.612

1 Corinthians 11:26

Discourse 23

1760

9.615

2 Corinthians 4:10

Discourse 24

1760

9.618

John 6:53

Discourse 25

1760

9.620

 

 

(6) Works Responding to Owen

Horn, John, Thyra aneogmene (1650)

Hammond, Henry, An Ansvver to the Animadversions on the Dissertations touching Ignatius’s Epistles (1654)

Woodward, Ezekias, A Treatise of Prayer (1656)

Cawdrey, Daniel, Independencie a Great Schism (1657)

Hammond, Henry, A Continuation of the Defence of Hugo Grotius (1657)

_____, A Collection of Such Discourses and Answers (1657)

Cawdrey, Daniel, Independency Further Proved to be a Schism (1658)

Dury, John, Lettre de Sieur Jean Dury (1658)

Foster, T., A VVinding-sheet for England’s Ministry (1658?)

Goodwin, John, Triumviri (1658)

Long, Thomas, An Exercitation concerning the Frequent Use of our Lords Prayer in the Publick Worship of God (1658)

Walton, Brian, The Considerator Considered (1659)

Fisher, Samuel, Rusticus ad academicos (1660)

[anon.], A Serious Letter to Dr. John Owen (1660)

[anon.], Don Pedro de Quixot (1660)

Canes, John Vincent, An Epistle to the Authour of the Animadversions upon Fiat lux (Douay? 1663)

_____, Diaphanta (Douai, 1665)

Perrinchief, Richard, Indulgence Not Justified (1668)

Whitehead, George, The Divinity of Christ (1669)

Vernon, George, A Letter to A Friend (1670)

Canes, John Vincent, Diaphanta (Douay? 1671)

Saller, William, An Examination of a Late Book Published by Doctor Owen (1671)

[anon.], An Expostulatory Letter to the Author of the Late Slanderous Libel against Dr. O. (1671)

Hotchkis, Thomas, The Intercourses of Divine Love betwixt Christ and the Church, or the Particular Believing Soul (1675)

[anon.], Prosopopoeia protreptica (1675)

[anon.], A Discourse concerning the Operations of the Holy Spirit; together with a Confutation of Some Part of Dr. Owen’s Book upon that Subject (1677)

Hotchkis, Thomas, The Second Part of a Discourse concerning Imputed Righteousness (1678)

Humfrey, John, Peaceable Disquisitions (1678)

Clagett, William, A Discourse concerning the Operations of the Holy Spirit (1680)

Rolle, Samuel, An Impartial Vindication of the Clergy of England (1680)

[anon.], A Dialogue between the Pope and the Devil, about Owen and Baxter (1681)

[anon.], A Discourse about Church-Unity (1681)

Coller, Thomas, A Compendius Discourse (1682)

Saywell, William, Evangelical and Catholick Unity (1682)

Clarke, Samuel, The New Testament, with Annotations (1683)

Nye, Philip, The Lavvfulnes of Hearing the Publick Ministers of the Church of England (1683)

[anon.], An Elegy on the Death of that Learned, Pious, and Famous Divine, Doctor John Ovven (1683)

Baxter, Richard, Catholick Communion Defended against Both Extreams (1684)

[anon.], A Vindication of the Late Reverend John Owen, D.D. (1684)

T., J., Animadversions on Mr. Corbet’s ‘Remains’ (1684)

Baxter, Richard, Catholick Communion Defended against Both Extreams (1684)

_____, Catholick Communion Doubly Defended (1684)

Clagett, William, A Discourse concerning the Operations of the Holy Spirit (1689)

Scudder, Henry, The Christian’s Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace, 12th edition (1690)

[anon.], Animadversions upon some passages in a Book, entituled, ‘The True Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government’ (1690)

Powell, Vavasor, ed. N. P. and John Fairfax, An Useful Concordance to the Holy Bible, 3rd edition (1697)

Humfrey, John, Peaceable Disquisitions (1697)

Keach, Benjamin, The Breach Repair’d in God’s Worship (1699)

Clarkson, David, A Funeral Sermon on the Much Lamented Death of the Late Reverend and Learned Divine John Owen, D.D. (London, 1720)

[anon.], The Life of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, D.D.(1758)

 

 

(7) The Correspondence of John Owen

The following notes are drawn primarily from Peter Toon, The Correspondence of John Owen (Cambridge and London, 1970). However, Toon’s edition does not list primary sources clearly and does not provide any account of his editorial policy. For these reasons, it is to be hoped that greater attention will be paid to the manuscripts of Owen’s letters in the near future.

Number

Address

Date

Source

1.

From the Commissioners in Ireland

2 July 1651

R. Dunlop, Ireland under the Commonwealth (Manchester, 1913), I.10-11; original destroyed 1922

2.

From Lewis du Moulin

September 1652

Latin dedicatory epistle to du Moulin, Oratio Auspicalis (1652)

3.

From Oliver Cromwell

16 October 1652

Convocation Register, 173

4.

From Oliver Cromwell

28 October 1652

Convocation Register, 176

5.

From Oliver Cromwell

1652

Convocation Register, 177

6.

To the Master of Balliol College

22 November 1652

Balliol College Register

7.

To the Parliament

1652

Henry Whitfield, Strength out of Weaknesse (1652)

8.

From the Committee for Public Revenue

14 December 1652

Christ Church Chapter Book, 1647-58, 59

9.

From the Commissioners in Ireland

31 August 1653

Dunlop, Ireland under the Commonwealth, II.371

10.

To the City of London

13 September 1653

Convocation Register, 221-2

11.

From Baron Herbert of Cherbury

23 July 1653

Bod. MS Tanner 52, f. 48

12.

From Oliver Cromwell

14 October 1653

Convocation Register, 224

13.

From Oliver Cromwell

24 October 1653

Convocation Register, 223

14.

From the Visitors of Oxford University

8 November 1653

Chapter Book of Christ Church; Burrows, Register, 370

15.

From Oliver Cromwell

1653

Convocation Register, 241

16.

To the Lord Protector

December 1653

Convocation Register, 226-7

17.

From the Lord Protector

28 December 1653

Convocation Register, 231

18.

To the Congregational Churches

9 January 1654

Bod. MS Carte 81, ff. 16-17

19.

To the Evangelical Churches of Europe

[March 1654]

original lost; Latin copy in Staatsarchiv, Zurich, E.II.457.b, f. 1. Duraeana

20.

From Charnell Petty

10 June 1654

Convocation Register, 249

21.

From Henry Lawrence

1654

SP25/75, f. 479; CSPD 1654, 294

22.

To the Lord Protector

9 August 1654

SP18/75, f. 110; CSPD 1654, 345

23.

From Edward Lowe

September 1654

SP18/77, f. 216; CSPD 1654, 425

24.

From the Lord Protector

31 October 1654

Convocation Register, 255

25.

To Henry Wilkinson

1654

Bod. MS Tanner 69, f. 182

26.

To the Parliament

18 November 1654

Convocation Register, 251

27.

To Bulstrode Whitelock

26 November 1654

Convocation Register, 252

28.

To Sir Thomas Widdrington

26 November 1654

Convocation Register, 253

29.

To the Lord Protector

December 1654

Musarum Oxoniensium(Oxford, 1654)

30.

From Philip Henry

1655

J. B. Williams (ed.), The Life of ... Philip Henry (1825), 27-9

31.

From George Gale and Edward Farrar

22 February 1655

Convocation Register, 259-60

32.

To John Thurloe

20 March 1655

Bod. MS Rawl. A24, f. 336; Thurloe State Papers, III.281

33.

From Thomas Down

30 March 1655

Convocation Register, 261

34.

To John Thurloe

29 May 1655

Bod. MS Rawl. A24, f. 413; Thurloe State Papers, III.488

35.

From the Lord Protector

22 August 1655

Convocation Register, 269

36.

To the Lord Protector

2 October 1655

Thurloe State Papers, IV.65-6

37.

From John Wallis

10 October 1655

Preface to John Wallis, Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae (1655)

38.

From Henry Lawrence

16 November 1655

SP25/76, f. 366; CSPD 1655-6, 23

39.

From Henry Lawrence

20 November 1655

SP25/76, f. 387; CSPD 1655-6, 29

40.

From Robert Wickens

1655

Robert Wickens, A Compleat & Perfect Concordance (1655)

41.

From Thomas Gilbert

1655

Thomas Gilbert, Vindiciae supremi Dei Doninii (1655)

42.

From the Lord Protector

4 March 1656

Convocation Register, 283

43.

From the Lord Protector

25 March 1656

Convocation Register, 279

44.

From Francis Martyn

17 July 1656

Convocation Register, 289

45.

Fromthe Lord Protector

1656

Convocation Register, 290

46.

To Nathaniel Fiennes

9 February 1657

Convocation Register, 300

47.

From John Beverley

24 February 1657

Matthias Maurice, Monuments of Mercy (1729), 10-14

48.

To George Kendall

1657

George Kendall, Fur pro tribunali (1657)

49.

From the Lord Protector

3 July 1657

Convocation Register, 305

50.

From Henry Lawrence

16 July 1657

SP25/77, f. 495; CSPD 1657/8, 30

51.

From Richard Cromwell

29 July 1657

Convocation Register, 309

52.

To Henry Cromwell

9 September 1657

BL MS Lansdowne 833, f. 179

53.

From Richard Cromwell

5 October 1657

Convocation Register, 309

54.

To John Maidstone

January 1658

SP 18/179, f. 102; CSPD 1657/8, 277

55.

To Lady Elizabeth Puleston

26 January 1658

Bod. MS Eng. Lett. c.29, f. 145; see also Lee, Henry, 31, and Letter 30

56.

From Lady Elizabeth Puleston

August 1658

Lee, Henry, 32

57.

From Richard Salwey

24 September 1658

SP 25/98, f. 240; CSPD 1659/60, 221

58.

To General Monck

31 October 1658

The Clarke Papers, ed. C. H. Firth, IV.81-2

59.

To General Monck

19 November 1658

The Clarke Papers, IV.121-4

60.

From General Monck

23 November 1658

J. Toland, Letters of General Monck (1714), No. XII

61.

From General Monck

29 November 1658

The Clarke Papers, IV.151-4

62.

To General Monck

13 December 1658

The Clarke Papers, IV.184-6

63.

From General Monck

22 December 1659

[Toon, Corr., 114-16]

64.

From Thomas Truthsbye

1660

A Serious Letter to Dr John Owen(1660)

65.

Legal Documents and Correspondence

1651-7

Christ Church Chapter Book

66.

Legal Documents and Correspondence

1651-7

Convocation Register

67.

From Unton Croke

11 August 1653

Oxford University Archives, MS W.P.a.23 (12)

68.

To John Thornton

1662

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 109, f. 87

69.

To John Thornton

[1663]

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 109, f. 88

70.

To John Thornton

[1663]

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 109, ff. 85-6

71.

From the General Court of Massachusetts

20 October 1663

Massachusetts Historical Society: Collections, 2nd series, II.265-7

72.

To Richard Baxter

25 Janaury 1669

Reliquiae Baxterianae(1696), III.63ff.; DWL Baxter Lrs. 59.5.18

73.

From Richard Baxter

16 February 1669

Reliquiae Baxterianae, III.64ff.

74.

To the Governor of Massachusetts

25 March 1669

Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (Hartford, 1853), II.534

75.

To the Independent Church at Hitchin

18 June 1669

original lost; J. Ivimey, History of the English Baptists (1814), II.189-91; Palmer, Nonconformist’s Memorial (1802), I.170-2; Hitchin Baptist Church, ‘First Church Book’

76.

To Charles Nichols

10 November [1670]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

77.

From the Magistrates and Ministers of Massachusetts

21 August 1671

Massachusetts Archives, Boston, MS lviii, ff. 72-3; PCSM XI.388ff.

78.

To the Magistrates and Ministers of Massachusetts

5 February 1672

T. Hutchinson, Collection of Papers (1769), pp. 429ff.

79.

To John Eliot

[1672]

Mather, Magnalia, I.536-7

80.

To Lord Wharton

[1673]

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 52, f. 64

81.

To Lord Wharton

11 May [1673]

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 52, f. 110

82.

To Lord Wharton

[1673]

Bod. Rawl. 63.f.19 (62)

83.

To Lady Elizabeth Hartopp

[May 1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

84.

To Sir John Hartopp

3 July [1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

85.

To Charles Fleetwood

8 July [1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

86.

To Sir John Hartopp

21 August [1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

87.

To Sir John Hartopp

2 September [1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

88.

To Robert Asty

16 March [1675]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

89.

To Robert Asty

2 January 1679

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

90.

To Robert Asty

25 April 1679

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

91.

To an unknown recipient

[1679]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

92.

To Monsieur Peter du Moulin

[1679]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

93.

To Mrs Polhill

[1680]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

94.

To the Church meeting at Leadenhall Street

[1680]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

95.

To Thomas Whitaker

29 October [1681]

source unknown; Owen, Works (1826), I.423

96.

To Charles Fleetwood

6 August 1682

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

97.

From Edmund King

26 January 1683

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 51.127

98.

To Charles Fleetwood

22 August 1683

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

 

 

Index of Correspondents:

 

Correspondent

Number

Date

Source

Asty, Robert

88, 89, 90

[1675]-9

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Master of Balliol College

6

1652

Balliol College Register

Baxter, Richard

72, 73

1669

RB

Beverley, John

47

1657

Maurice, Monuments

Committee for Public Revenue

8

1652

Christ Church Chapter Book

Congregational Churches

18

1654

Bod. MS Carte 81

Croke, Unton

67

1653

Oxford University Archives

Cromwell, Henry

52

1657

BL MS Lansdowne

Oliver Cromwell/ Lord Protector

3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 29, 35, 36, 42, 43, 45, 49

1652-7

Convocation Register, SP, Musarum Oxoniensium, Thurloe State Papers

Cromwell, Richard

51, 53

1657

Convocation Register

Eliot, John

79

[1672]

Mather, Magnalia

Evangelical Churches

19

1654

Zurich

Fiennes, Nathaniel

46

57

Convocation Register

Fleetwood, Charles

85, 96, 98

[1674]-83

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Gale, George, and Edward Farrar

31

1655

Convocation Register

Gilbert, Thomas

41

1655

Gilbert, Vindiciae

Hartopp, Lady Elizabeth

83

[1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Hartopp, Sir John

84, 86, 87

[1674]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Henry, Philip

30

1655

Williams, Henry

Herbert, Baron, of Cherbury

11

1653

Bod. MS Tanner

Hitchin Independent Church

75

1669

Ivimey, Baptists

Irish Commissioners

1, 9

1651-3

Dunlop

Kendall, George

48

1657

Kendall, tribunali

King, Edmund

97

1683

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 51

Lawrence, Henry

21, 38, 39, 50

1654-7

SP

Leadenhall Street Church

94

[1680]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

London, City of

10

1653

Convocation Register

Lowe, Edward

23

1654

SP

Maidstone, John

54

1658

SP

Martyn, Francis

44

1656

Convocation Register

Massachusetts General Court

71

1663

MHSC

Massachusetts Governor

74

1669

Mather, Magnalia

Massachusetts Magistrates and Ministers

77, 78

1671-2

Mass. Archives; Hutchinson, Collection

Monck, General

58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63

1658

Clarke Papers; Toland, Monck

Moulin, Lewis du

2

1652

Moulin

Moulin, Peter du

92

[1679]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Nichols, Charles

76

[1670]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Oxford Visitors

14

1653

Christ Church Chapter Book

Parliament

7, 26

1652-4

Whitfield, Strength; Convocation Register

Petty, Charnell

20

1654

Convocation Register

Polhill, Mrs

93

[1680]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

Puleston, Lady Elizabeth

55, 56

1658

Bod. MS Eng. Lett.; Lee, Henry

Salwey, Richard

57

1658

SP

Thornton, John

68, 69, 70

1662-[3]

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 109

Thurloe, John

34

1655

Bod. MS Rawl. A

Truthsbye, Thomas

64

1660

Serious Letter

Wallis, John

37

1655

Wallis, Elenchus

Wharton, Lord

80, 81, 82

 

Bod. Rawl. Lrs. 52 and 63

Whitaker, Thomas

95

[1681]

Owen, Works

Whitelock, Bulstrode

27

1654

Convocation Register

Wickens, Robert

40

1655

Wickens, Concordance

Widdrington, Thomas

28

1654

Convocation Register

Wilkinson, Henry

25

1654

Bod. MS Tanner 69

[unknown]

91

[1679]

DWL NCL, Owen Letters

 

 

Index of Sources

Source

Number

Balliol College, Oxford, ‘Balliol College Register, 1514-1682’

6

Baxter, Richard,Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696)

72, 73

Bodleian Library, MS Carte 81

18

Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c.29

55

Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. A24

32, 34

Bodleain Library, MS Rawl. Lrs. 51, 52, 63

80, 81, 82, 97

Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. Lrs. 109

68, 69, 70

Bodleain Library, MS Tanner 52

11

Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 69

25

Bodleian Library, University Archives, ‘Register of Convocation, 1647-1659’

3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 51, 53, 66

British Library, MS Lansdowne  833

52

Christ Church, Oxford, ‘Christ Church Chapter Book, 1647-1658’

8, 14; 65

The Clarke Papers, ed. C. H. Firth, 4 vols. (1891-1901), Vol. II

58, 59, 61, 62

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd Series, Vol. II.

71

Dr Williams’s Library, MS NCL, ‘Owen Letters’

76, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98

Du Moulin, Lewis, Oratio Auspicalis (1652)

2

Dunlop, Robert, Ireland under the Commonwealth (Manchester, 1913)

1, 9

Gilbert, Thomas, Vindiciae Supremi Dei Dominii (1655)

41

Hutchinson, Thomas, Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay (Boston, 1769)

78

Ivimey, Joseph, A History of the English Baptists, 4 vols. (1811-30), Vol. IV

75

Kendall, George, Fur pro tribunali (1657)

48

Lee, M. H. (ed.), Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, M.A. (1882)

55, 56

Massachusetts Archives, Boston, MS lviii

77

Mather, Cotton, Magnalia Christi Americana, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1853)

74, 79

Maurice, Matthias, Monuments of Mercy (1729)

47

Musarum Oxoniensium(Oxford, 1654)

29

The National Archives, Public Records Office, State Papers

21, 22, 23, 38, 39, 50, 54, 56

Owen, Works, ed. Goold (1854), I

95

Oxford University Archives, MS W.P.a.23 (12)

67

Staatsarchiv, Zurich, Duraeana MS EII 457 b, f. I

19

Thurloe, John, A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq;, ed. Thomas Birch, 7 vols. (1742), Vols. III-IV

32, 34, 36

Toland, John, The Art of Restoring; Or, The Piety and Probity of General Monck in ... his own Letters (1714)

60

Truthsbye, T., A Serious Letter to Dr John Owen (Oxford, 1660)

64

Wallis, John, Elenchus Geometriae Hobbianae (Oxford, 1655)

37

Whitefield, Henry, Strengthe out of Weaknesse (1652)

7

Wickens, Robert, A Compleat & Perfect Concordance of the English Bible (Oxford, 1655)

40

Williams, J. B. (ed.), The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M. (1825)

30

 

 

(8) Manuscripts Referring to John Owen

The following manuscripts provide biographical or historical contexts for the study of John Owen.

 

Bodleian Library, MS Carte 81, fols. 16–17

Bodleian Library, MSS Eng. lett. C 29, fol. 145; C 328, fol. 509

Bodleian Library, MSS Rawl. A 24, fol. 336; A 26, fol. 413

Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1352, fols. 131-8: J. Owen and others, ‘Twelve reasons’

Bodleian Library, MSS Rawl. Letters 51, 52, 53, 63, 109

Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 52, fol. 48

Bodleian Library, MS OUA SP/E/4: papers relating to the time of Cromwell and the visitation

Bodleian Library, Register of Convocation: Volume T (1647-59)

British Library, Add. MS 4107, fols. 16–18: declaration of Independent ministers, 27 Feb 1663

British Library, Add. MSS 18730, 40860: A. Annesley, earl of Anglesey, diary

British Library, Add. MS 29582, fol. 59

British Library, Egerton MS 2570: Reliquiae Baxterianae

British Library, Harley MS 1040, fol. 38

British Library, Harley MS 6942

British Library, Lansdowne MSS 821; 822, fol. 178; 823; 833, fol. 179; 1152, fol. 227

British Library, Law Tracts, 515/118 (16): ‘The presentment for the City of London, 1683’

British Library, Law Tracts, 515/118 (22): ‘A list of the conventicles, 1683’

British Library, Sloane MS 1472: notebook of Oxford student

British Library, Sloane MS 3680: sermon notes

British Library, Stowe MSS 745, fols. 79–80; 3680

Dr Williams’s Library, MS Baxter Letters, 5/18

Dr Williams’s Library, MS Roger Morrice, ‘Ent'ring book’, 3 vols.

Dr Williams’s Library, MS NCL L6/1, 3, 4: J. Owen, unpublished sermons

Dr Williams’s Library, MS NCL Owen Letters

Dr Williams’s Library, MS NCL Yarmouth Congregational Church Book

Edinburgh University Library, MS New College Comm 2

Essex Record Office, parish registers of Coggeshall

Fordham Parish Church, Essex, parish registers of Fordham

Lambeth Palace Library, MS Jenkins 1662: list of ministers who supplied testimonials to the Triers

Lambeth Palace Library, MSS L996-9: Admission Books of the Triers

Oxford University, Balliol College, Balliol College Register, 1514-1682

Oxford University, Christ Church, Christ Church Chapter Book, 1647-58

Oxford University, Christ Church, Christ Church Disbursements Book, 1647-60

Staatsarchiv, Zürich, Duraeana, MS E.II.457b, fol. 1

The National Archives: Public Records Office, State Papers, 18/75; 18/77; 18/179; 25/75; 25/76; 25/98; 29/28/56; 29/65/9, 10; 29/113/84; 29/276/14; 29/292/157; 29/335/65; 29/379/50; 29/404/253; 29/417/122, 144.1; 29/418/106, 127; 29/421/174, 176–7; 29/425/102; 29/431/108; 29/432/32; 29/437/65; 63/341, 158

 

(9) Printed Primary Sources (pre-1700) Referring to Owen

[anon.], Animadversions upon some Passages in a Book, entituled ‘The True Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government’ (1690)

[anon.], A Declaration of the Faith and Order Owned and Practised in the Congregational Churches in England (1658)

[anon.], A Dialogue between the Pope and the Devil, about Owen and Baxter (1681)

[anon.], A Discourse about Church-Unity (1681)

[anon.], A Discourse concerning the Operations of the Holy Spirit (1677)

[anon.], Don Pedro de Quixot (1660)

[anon.], An Elegy on the Death of that Learned, Pious, and Famous Divine, Doctor John Owen (1683)

[anon.], An Expostulatory Letter to the Author of the Late Slanderous Libel against Dr. O.(1671)

[anon.], The Judgment and Decree of the University of Oxford Past in their Convocation (1683)

[anon.], An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the Calling of an Assembly of Learned and Godly Divines (1643)

[anon.], Prosopopoeia protreptica (1675)

[anon.], A Serious Letter to Dr. John Owen (1660)

[anon.], A Vindication of the Late Reverend and Learned John Owen D.D. (1684)

Ashwood, Bartholomew, The Best Treasure, or the Way to be Truly Rich (1680)

Bartlet, William, A Model of the Primitive Congregational Way ... Together with the Maine Points in Controversie, Touching the Right Visible Church-state Christ hath Instituted under the Gospel (1647)

Bastwick, John, The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of all the Independents and Sectaries ... Or, Independency Not God’s Ordinance (1646)

Baxter, Richard, Aphorismes of Justification (1649)

_____, Catholick Communion Defended against Both Extreams (1684)

_____, Catholick Communion Doubly Defended (1684)

_____, Reliquiae Baxterianae, or, Mr Richard Baxter's Narrative of the most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, ed. M. Sylvester, 1 vol. in 3 pts (1696)

Biddle, John, A Brief Scripture Catechism for Children (1654)

Burgess, Anthony, The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errours of Many (1654)

Canes, John Vincent, An Epistle to the Authour of the Animadversions upon Fiat lux (Douay? 1653)

_____, Diaphanta (Douay, 1665)

Canne, John, The Time of the End (London, 1657)

Caryl, Joseph, The Moderator (1652)

_____, The Nature and Principles of Love as the End of the Commandment (1673)

Cawdrey, Daniel, Independencie a Great Schism Proved Against Dr. Owen his Apology in his Tract of Schism (1657)

_____, Independency Further Proved to be a Schism: Or, A Survey of Dr Owen’s Review of his Tract of Schism (1658)

Chaunc[e]y, Isaac, The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches (1697)

_____, The Doctrine which is According to Godliness (1694)

_____, Examine confectionis pacificae (1692)

_____, Neonomianism Unmask’d (1692)

_____, A Rejoynder to Mr. Daniel Williams (1693)

_____, A Theological Dialogue: Containing the Defence and Justification of Dr. John Owen (1684)

Clagett, William, A Discourse concerning the Operations of the Holy Spirit; together with a Confutation of Some Part of Dr. Owen’s Book upon that Subject (1677)

Clarke, Samuel, The New Testament, with Annotations (1683)

Coles, Elisha, A Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty (1678)

Coller, Thomas, A Compendius Discourse (1682)

Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, A Solemn Testimony Against Toleration and the Present Proceedings of Sectaries and their Abettors in England in Reference to Religion and Government (Edinburgh, 1649)

Cotton, John, A Defence of Mr. John Cotton (Oxford, 1658)

_____, The Doctrine of the Church, to which is Committed the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven (1643)

Durham, James, Clavis cantici (1669)

_____, The Law Unsealed, 3rd edition (Edinburgh, 1676)

Dury, John, Lettre de Sieur Jean Dury (1658)

_____, A Declaration of John Durie, a Minister of Jesus Christ to Witness the Gospell of Peace (1660)

Eaton, Samuel, The Mystery of God Incarnate (1650)

Eyre, William, Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae (1654)

Fisher, Samuel, Rusticus ad academicos (1660)

Foster, T., A Vvinding-sheet for England’s Ministry (1658?)

Gale, Theophilus, The Court of the Gentiles, 4 vols. (Oxford and London, 1669-78)

_____, Idea theologiae (1673)

_____, Philosophia generalis (1676)

_____, The True Idea of Jansenisme (1669)

Gilbert, Thomas, Vindiciae supremi Dei Dominii (London, 1655)

Goodwin, John, Anti-Cavalierisme (1642)

_____, Redemption Redeemed (1651)

_____, Triumviri (1658)

Goodwin, Thomas, et al., An Apologeticall Narration (1644)

_____, The Independents Declaration Delivered in to the Assembly (1647)

_____, The Reasons of the Dissenting Brethren Against the Third Proposition Concerning Presbyteriall Government (1645)

Hammond, Henry, An Ansvver to the Animadversions on the Dissertations touching Ignatius’s Epistles (1654)

_____, A Collection of Such Discourses and Answers (1657)

_____, A Continuation of the Defence of Hugo Grotius (1657)

Horn, John, The Open Door for Mans Approach to God (1650)

Hotchkis, Thomas, An Exercitation Concerning the Nature of Forgiveness of Sin (1654)

_____, The Intercourses of Divine Love betwixt Christ and the Church, or the Particular Believing Soul (1675)

_____, The Second Part of a Discourse concerning Imputed Righteousness (1678)

Hubberthorne, Richard, A True Testimony of the Zeal of Oxford-Professors (London, 1654)

Humfrey, John, Peaceable Disquisitions (1678)

Keach, Benjamin, The Breach Repair’d in God’s Worship (1699)

Kendall, George, Fur pro tribunali (Oxford, 1657)

_____, Theokratia: Or, A Vindication of the Doctrine Commonly Received in the Reformed Churches (1653)

Lobb, Stephen, A Defence of the Report, concernign the Present State of the Differences in Doctrinals (1698)

_____, The Glory of Free Grace Display’d (1680)

_____, A Peaceable Enquiry into the Nature of the Present Controversie (1693)

_____, A Report of the Present State of the Differences in Doctrinals (1697)

Long, Thomas, An Exercitation concerning the Frequent Use of our Lords Prayer in the Publick Worship of God (1658)

Lukin, Henry, An Introduction to the Holy Scripture (1669)

Moulin, Lewis du, Oratio auspicalis (Oxford, 1652)

Moore, Thomas, The Universallity of God’s Free-Grace in Christ to Mankind Proclaimed and Displayed (1646)

Musarum Oxoniensum(Oxford? 1654)

Nedham, Marchamont, A True State of the Case of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1654)

[Newcomen, Matthew], Irenicum, Or An Essay towards a Brotherly Peace and Union between those of the Congregational and Presbyterian Way (1659)

Nye, Philip, The Lavvfulnes of Hearing the Publick Ministers of the Church of England (1683)

Overbury, Thomas, An Expostulatory Letter to the Author of the Late Slanderous Libel against Dr. O. (1671)

Parker, Samuel, A Defence and Continuation of the Ecclesiastical Politie (1671)

Parker, Samuel, A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie Wherein ... the Mischiefs and Inconveniences of Toleration are Represented (1670)

Perrinchief, Richard, Indulgence Not Justified (1668)

Peter, Hugh, Gods Doing and Mans Duty, Opened in a Sermon Preached before Both Houses of Parliament (1646)

Polhill, Edward, The Divine Will considered in its Eternal Decrees and Holy Execution of them (1674)

Pope, Walter, The Life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury (1697)

Powell, Vavasor, An Useful Concordance to the Holy Bible, 3rd edition, ed. N. P. and John Fairfax (1697)

Rogers, John, Ohel or Bethshemesh (1653)

Rolle, Samuel, An Impartial Vindication of the Clergy of England (1680)

Saller, William, An Examination of a Late Book Published by Doctor Owen (1671)

Saywell, William, Evangelical and Catholick Unity (1682)

Scudder, Henry, The Christian’s Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace, 12th edition (1690)

[Sprat, T.], Copies of the Informations and Original Papers relating to the Proof of the Horrid Conspiracy against the Late King, his Present Majesty and the Government (1685)

Stillingfleet, Edward, The Unreasonableness of Separation (1681)

T., J., Animadversions on Mr. Corbet’s ‘Remains’ (1684)

Tombes, John, True Old Light Exalted above Pretended New Light (1660)

Truthsbye, Thomas, A Serious Letter to Dr. John Owen (Oxford, 1659)

Twisse, William, et al., Certaine Considerations to Dis-swade Men from Further Gathering of Churches (1643)

Vane, Henry, A Healing Question Propounded and Resolved (1656)

[Vernon, George], A Letter to a Friend Concerning some of Dr. Owen’s Principles and Practices (1670)

Wallis, John, Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae (Oxford, 1655)

Walton, Brian, The Considerator Considered: or, A Brief View of Certain Considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta, The Prolegomena, and Appendix Thereof (London, 1659)

[Westminster Divines], The Confession of Faith and Catechisms, Agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster (1649)

Whitehead, George, The Divinity of Christ (1669)

Whitfield, Henry, Strenth out of Weaknesse (London, 1652)

Wickens, Robert, A Compleat & Perfect Concordance of the English Bible (Oxford, 1655)

Williams, Daniel, A Defence of Gospel-Truth (1693)

Williams, Daniel, Gospel-Truth Stated and Vindicated (1692)

Woodward, Ezekias, A Treatise of Prayer (1656)

 

 

(10) Printed Editions of Primary Sources (post-1700)

The ensuing list provides information on printed versions of seventeenth-century manuscript materials relevant to the study of Owen’s life and works.

 

Baillie, Robert, The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A.M., ed. David Laing, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1842)

Barnes, Ambrose, Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes (Durham, 1867)

Baxter, Richard, Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, ed. N. H. Keeble and G. F. Nuttall, 2 vols. (1991)

_____, The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, ed. William Orme, 23 vols. (London, 1830)

Bunyan, John, The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, ed. Roger Sharrock, 13 vols. (Oxford, 1976-94)

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop Burnet’s History of his Own Time (London, 1724)

Burrows, Montagu (ed.), The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford from A. D. 1647 to A. D. 1658 (London, 1881)

Burton, Thomas, Diary of Thomas Burton, ed. John Towill Rutt, 4 vols. (1828)

Calamy, Edmund, An Abridgment of Mr. Baxter’s History of his Life and Times (London, 1702)

_____, An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter’s History of his Life and Times, 2nd edition, 2 vols. (London, 1713)

_____, A Continuation of the Account of the Minsiters, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, who were Ejected and Silenced, 2 vols. (London, 1727)

_____, An Historical Account of My Own Life, ed. John Towill Rutt, 2 vols. (London, 1829)

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1649-50: 177, 233, 589

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1650: 30, 171, 216, 336, 348, 427

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1651: 18, 74, 263

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1651-2: 351

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1652-3: 73-4

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1653-4: 360, 416

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1654: 3, 40, 294, 345, 386, 399, 425

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1655: 63

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1655-6: 23, 29, 288, 319, 331, 370

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1656-7: 65, 108, 113, 127, 132, 158, 164, 199, 235, 280, 318, 389

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1657-8: 30, 68-9, 118, 149, 216, 218, 236, 277

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1658-9: 24, 28

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1659-60: 58, 110, 221, 409

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1660-1: 473?

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1661-2: 593-4

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1663-4: 555

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1664-5: 222

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1667-8: 238

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1670 and Addenda 1660-70: 243

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1671: 463

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1671-2: 332, 433, 609

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1674: 324, 532

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1677-8: 506-7

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1679-80: 275, 278

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1680-1: 333-5, 351, 529/592, 613

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1682: 86-7, 104-5, 105-7, 504-7, 608-9, 610

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1683 January àJune: 184, 356, 372

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1683 July àSeptember: 367-8, 386

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1683-4: 170, 349-50

Calendar of State Papers Domestic1684-5: 258

Calendar of State Papers DomesticAddenda 1660-85: 443

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 1: Marginalia, ed. G. Whalley (1980)

Cromwell, Oliver, The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, ed. W. C. Abbott and C. D. Crane, 4 vols. (1937–47)

Crosfield, Thomas, The Diary of Thomas Crosfield, ed. F. S. Boas (London, 1935)

Dunlop, Robert (ed.), Ireland under the Commonwealth (Manchester, 1913)

Evelyn, John, The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer (London, 1959)

Firth, C. H., The Clarke Papers, 4 vols. (London, 1891-1901)

____, and R. S. Rait (eds.), Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642–1660, 3 vols. (1911)

Foster, J. (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714, 4 vols. (1891-2), III, 1100

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (ed.), The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1660, 3rd edition (Oxford, 1906)

Goodwin, Thomas, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, ed. J. C. Miller, 9 vols. (Edinburgh, 1861)

Gutch, John (ed.), The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1796)

Henry, Philip, Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, ed. Matthew Henry Lee (London, 1882)

Historical Manuscripts Commision XXIX, The Manuscripts of his Grace the Duke of Portland, 10 vols. (1891–1931), II, 236

Historical Manuscripts Commission LXIII, Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont, 2 vols. in 3 (1905–9), I, 576

Historical Manuscripts Commission LXXI, Report on the Manuscripts of Allan George Finch, 5 vols. (1913–2004), II, 10

Hull, John, ‘Diary of John Hull’, in Archaeologia Americana, vol. 3 (Boston, 1865)

Hutchinson, Lucy, On the Principles of the Christian Religion, Addressed to her Daughter; and On Theology (London, 1817)

_____, Order and Disorder, ed. David Norbrook (Oxford, 2001)

Hutchinson, Thomas, A Collection of Original Papers (Boston, 1769)

Ivimey, Joseph, A History of the English Baptists, 4 vols. (London, 1811-30)

Jaffray, Alexander, Diary of Alexander Jaffray (London, 1833)

Josselin, Ralph, The diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683, ed. A. Macfarlane (1976)

Jolly, Thomas, The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly, ed. Henry Fishwick (Manchester, 1895)

Journal of the House of Commons, VI-VII (1648–59)

Journal of the House of Lords, VIII (1645–6), 467

The Life of the Reverend and Learned John Owen D.D.(1758)

Ludlow, Edmund, The Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, ed. C. H. Firth (Oxford, 1894)

Luttrell, Narcissus, A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, 6 vols. (1857)

Magrath, John Richard (ed.), The Flemings in Oxford (Oxford, 1904)

Marvell, Andrew, The Poems and Letters, ed. H. M. Margoliouth, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1952)

The Mather papers, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th series, VIII (1868), 584

Mather, Cotton, Magnalia Christi Americana, ed. Thomas Robbins (Hartford, 1853)

Matthews, A. G., The Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order 1658 (London, 1959)

Maurice, Matthias, Monuments of Mercy (London, 1729)

Milton, John, Complete Prose Works, ed. Don Marion Wolfe et al., 8 vols. in 10 (New Haven, 1953-82)

_____, Complete Shorter Poems, ed. John Carey (Harlow, 1968)

_____, Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (Harlow, 1968)

Morrice, Roger, The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, ed. Mark Goldie et al., 7 vols. (Woodbridge, 2007)

Neal, Daniel, The History of the Puritans, 4 vols. (London, 1732-8)

The Nicholas Papers, ed. G. F. Farmer, 4 vols. (1886-1920)

Nickolls, J., Original Letters and Papers of State (London, 1743)

Ogilvie, James D. (ed.), Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston (Edinburgh, 1940)

Parker, Samuel, The Nonconformist’s Memorial, 2 vols. (London, 1775)

Paul, Robert S. (ed.), An Apologeticall Narration (Philadelphia, PA, 1963)

Peck, Francis, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols. (London, 1779)

Pepys, Samuel, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols. (London, 1970-83)

Pierce, R. D. (ed.), Records of the First Church of Boston, 1630-1868 (Boston, 1961)

Scott, Walter, Original Memoirs Written During the Civil War (Edinburgh, 1806)

Stephen, William (ed.), Register of the Consultation of the Ministers of Edinburgh, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1921)

[Terrill, Edward], The Records of a Church of Christ Meeting in Broadmead, Bristol, 1640-1687, ed. E. B. Underhill (London, 1847)

Thomas, Roger, An Essay of Accommodation 1680 (London, 1957)

Thorndike, Herbert, The Theological Works of Herbert Thorndike,ed. Arthur West Haddon, vol. 5 (Oxford, 1854)

[Thurloe, John], State Papers, III, 281; IV, 334

Toland, John, The Art of Restoring, or, the Piety and Probity of General Monk (London, 1714)

Turner, G. Lyon, Original Records of Early Nonconformity, 3 vols. (London, 1911-14)

Walker, John, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Nubmers and Sufferings of the Clergy (London, 1714)

Walker, W. (ed.), Creeds and Platforms of Congrgationalism (Philadelphia, 1960)

Ward, G. R. M. (tr.), Oxford University Statutes, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1845-51)

Whitelocke, B., Memorials of English Affairs, 4 vols. (1853)

Williams, J. B., The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M. (London, 1825)

Wood, Anthony, Athenae Oxonienses, I, xxxviii–xxxix; III, 301, 459, 540, 600, 937–8, 1150; IV, 97–113, 230, 319, 633, 744

_____, Athenae Oxonienses: Fasti (1815), 465, 479; (1820), 34, 71, 126, 169, 175, 179, 181, 186, 192, 198

_____, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1891)

 

Part 2: Secondary Sources

The following bibliography of secondary sources is divided into these catagories:

 

(1)   Books on John Owen

(2)   Articles and Chapters on John Owen

(3)   PhD Dissertations on John Owen

(4)   Books on Puritanism, Nonconformity and Dissent

(5)   Books on Seventeenth-Century Education

 

Whereas previous lists of secondary sources on Owen (at johnowen.org and in The Ashgate Research Companion) have been predominantly theological, the ensuing bibliography allows greater space for work which has been undertaken on Owen by literary, political and intellectual historians. It excludes web-based essays, many of which have only temporary urls; it also excludes theological pamphlets. Nevertheless, I have included a sample of polemical theological articles on Owen, where I have found them to be of notable interest beyond their immediate purpose. Similarly, I have listed a selection of the most influential doctoral dissertations on Owen, but I have excluded MA and ThM theses. This bibliography is unusual in placing Owen scholarship firmly within other historical writing about puritanism, including other major literary writers, such as John Milton, Richard Baxter, John Bunyan and George Fox. It is unique in locating Owen at the centre of scholarship concerning the nature of Early Modern education.

 

(1)   Books on John Owen

Cleveland, Christopher, Thomism in John Owen (Farnham, 2013)

Cooper, Tim, John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation of Nonconformity (Farnham, 2011)

Daniels, Richard, The Christology of John Owen (Grand Rapids, MI, 2004)

Ferguson, Sinclair, John Owen on the Christian Life (Edinburgh, 1987)

Gleason, Randall C., John Calvin and John Owen on Mortification: A Comparative Study in Reformed Spirituality (New York, 1995)

Gribben, Crawford, John Owen and English Puritanism (under contract to Oxford University Press)

Griffiths, Steve, Redeem the Time: The Problem of Sin in the Writings of John Owen (Fearn, 2001)

Johnson, Dorothy Catherine, Pioneers of Reform: Cobbett, Owen, Place, Shaftesbury, Cobden (London, c.1911)

Kapic, Kelly, Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen (Grand Rapids, MI, 2007)

_____, and Mark Jones (eds)., The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology (Farnham, 2012)

Kay, Brian, Trinitarian Spirituality: John Owen and the Doctrine of God in Western Devotion (Carlisle, 2007)

Lloyd, R. Glynne, John Owen – Commonwealth Puritan (Pontypridd, c.1972)

Moffatt, James, The Golden Book of John Owen (London, 1904)

Oliver, Robert W. (ed.), John Owen: The Man and his Theology: Papers Read at the Conference of the John Owen Centre for Theological Study (Darlington, 2002)

Orme, William, Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Religious Connexions of John Owen, D.D. (London, 1820)

Piper, John, Contending For Our All: Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, John Owen and J. Gresham Machen (Leicester, 2006)

Rehnman, Sebastian, Divine Discourse: The Theological Methodology of John Owen (Grand Rapids, MI, 2002)

Spence, Alan, Incarnation and Inspiration: John Owen and the Coherence of Christology (London, 2007)

Toon, Peter, The Correspondence of John Owen (1616-1683) with an Account of his Life and Work (Cambridge and London, 1970)

_____, God’s Statesman: The Life and Work of John Owen (Exeter, 1971)

_____, The Oxford Orations of Dr. John Owen (Callington, 1971)

Trueman, Carl R., The Claims of Truth: John Owen’s Trinitarian Theology (Carlisle, 1998)

_____, John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man (Aldershot, c.2007)

Vries, P. de, Die mij heeft liefgehad: De betekenis van de gemeenschap met Christus in de theologie van John Owen (1616-1683) (Heerenveen, 1999)

 

 

(2)   Articles and Chapters on John Owen

Adlington, Hugh, ‘Restoration, Religion, and Law: Assize Sermons, 1660-1685’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (Oxford, 2011), 423-41

Asselt, Willem J. van, ‘Covenant Theology as Relational Theology: The Contributions of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669) and John Owen (1618-1683) to a Living Reformed Theology’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 65-84

Asty, John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Owen’, in A Complete Collection of the Sermons of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, ed. John Asty (London, 1721), i-xxxviii

Baker, J. Wayne, ‘Church, State, and Toleration: John Locke and Calvin’s Heirs in England, 1644-1689’, in Later Calvinism: International Perspectives, ed. W. Fred Graham (Kiksville, 1994), 525-43

Bates, Ely, ‘Baxter and Owen’, The National Review, 15 (1862), 95-120

Beeke, Joel R., ‘John Owen’, in The Quest for Full Assurance: The Legacy of Calvin and his Successors, by Joel R. Beeke (Edinburgh, 1999), 165-213

_____, ‘Thomas Goodwin: The Merging of English and Dutch Thinking on Assurance’, in The Quest for Full Assurance: The Legacy of Calvin and his Successors, by Joel R. Beeke (Edinburgh, 1999), 245-68

Bowman, John, ‘A Forgotten Controversy’, Evangelical Quarterly, 20 (1948), 46-68

Brink, Gert van den, ‘Impetration and Application in John Owen’s Theology’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 85-96

Coffey, John, ‘John Owen and the Puritan Toleration Controversy, 1646-59’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 227-48

_____, 'The Toleration Controversy During the English Revolution', in Revolution in Revolutionary England, ed. Christopher Durston and Judith Maltby (Manchester, 2006), 42-68

Cook, Sarah Gibbard, ‘Congregational Independents and the Cromwellian Constitution’, Church History, 44 (1977), 335-57

Cooper, Tim, ‘John Owen Unleashed: Almost’, Conversations in Religion and Theology, 6 (2008), 226-42

_____, ‘Owen’s Personality: The Man behind the Theology’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 215-26

_____, 'Recrudescence: The Later Seventeenth Century', in Tim Cooper, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism (Aldershot, 2001), 152-91

_____, ‘Why Did Richard Baxter and John Owen Diverge? The Impact of the First Civil War’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 61 (2010), 496-516

Crippen, T. G., ‘Dr Watts’s Church Book’, Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 1 (1901), 26-38

Crisp, Oliver D., ‘Is Universalism a Problem for Particularists?’, Scottish Journal of Theology, 63 (2010), 1-23           

_____, ‘John Owen on Spirit Christology’, Journal of Reformed Theology, 5 (2011), 5-25

De Krey, Gary S., ‘Rethinking the Restoration: Dissenting Cases for Conscience, 1667-1672’, The Historical Journal, 38 (1995), 53-83

De Vries, Peter, ‘Union and Communion with Christ in the Theology of John Owen’, Reformed Theological Journal, 15 (1999), 77-96

Dolezal, James E., ‘John Owen’s Principles of Nonconformity’, Puritan Reformed Journal, 2 (2010), 259-75

Entwistle, F. R., ‘John Owen’s Doctrine of Christ’, in Puritan Papers: Volume 2, 1960-1962, ed. J. I. Packer (Phillipsburg, NJ, 2001), 281-304

Ferguson, Sinclair B., ‘John Owen and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (Darlington, 2002), 101-29

_____, ‘John Owen and the Doctrine of the Person of Christ’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (London, 2000), 69-99

Fesko, J. V., ‘John Owen on Union with Christ and Justification’, Themelios, 37 (2012), 7-19

Foord, Martin, ‘John Owen’s Gospel Offer: Well-Meant or Not?’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 283-96

Gatgounis, George, ‘John Owen’s View of Substantive Biblical Law’, Contra Mundum, 14 (1995), 2-14

Gatiss, Lee, ‘From Life’s First Cry: John Owen on Infant Baptism and Infant Salvation’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 271-82

Gleason, Randall C., and Kelly M. Kapic, ‘Who Were the Puritans?’, in The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics, ed. Randall C. Gleason and Kelly M. Kapic (Downers Grove, IL, 2004), 15-37

Greaves, Richard L., ‘Owen, John (1616-1683)’, ODNB

_____, '"The Present Distresses": The Nonconformist Challenge in England, 1664-1672', in Richard L. Greaves, Enemies Under His Feet (Stanford, 1990), 121-66

Gribben, Crawford, ‘John Owen, Renaissance Man? The Evidence of Edward Millington’s Bibliotheca Oweniana (1684)’, Westminster Theological Journal, 72 (2010), 321-32, reprinted in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 97-110

Gundry, Stanley N., ‘John Owen on Authority and Scripture’, in Inerrancy and the Church, ed. John D. Hannah (Chicago, 1984), 189-221

Harrison, Graham S., ‘John Owen’s Doctrine of the Church’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (London, 2000), 157-90

Haykin, Michael A. G., ‘John Owen and the Challenge of the Quakers’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (London, 2000), 131-56

Holmes, Stephen R., ‘Reformed Varieties of the communicatio idiomatum’, in The Person of Christ, ed. Murray Rae and Stephen R. Holmes (London, 2005), 70-86

Howson, Barry H., ‘The Puritan Hermeneutics of John Owen: A Recommendation’, Westminster Theological Journal, 63 (2001), 351-76

Hunsinger, George, ‘Justification and Mystical Union with Christ: Where Does Owen Stand?’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 199-212

Hyde, Daniel R., ‘“The Fire That Kindleth All Our Sacrifices to God”: Owen and the Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 249-70

Johnston, O. R., ‘Growth in Grace in Puritan Theology’, Evangelical Quarterly, 25 (1953), 131-41

Jones, R. Tudur, ‘Union with Christ: The Existential Nerve of Puritan Piety’, Tyndale Bulletin, 41 (1990), 186-208

Kapic, Kelly M., ‘Communion with God by John Owen’, in The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason (Downers Grove, IL, 2004), 167-82

_____, ‘The Spirit as Gift: Explorations in John Owen’s Pneumatology’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 113-40

Kelly, Ryan, ‘Reformed or Reforming? John Owen and the Complexity of Theological Codification for Mid-Seventeenth-Century England’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 3-30

King, D. M., ‘The Affective Spirituality of John Owen’, Evangelical Quarterly, 68 (1996), 223-33

Knapp, Henry M., ‘Augustine and Owen on Perseverance’, Westminster Theological Journal, 62 (2000), 65-88

_____, ‘John Owen, on Schism and the Nature of the Church’, Westminster Theological Journal, 72 (2010), 333-58

_____, ‘John Owen’s Interpretation of Hebrews 6:4-6: Eternal Perseverance of the Saints in Puritan Exegesis’, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 34 (2003), 29-52

Letis, Theodore, ‘John Owen Versus Brian Walton: A Reformed Response to the Birth of Text Criticism’, in The Majority Text, ed. Theodore Letis (Fairhill, PA, 1987), 145-90

Lim, Paul Chang-Ha, ‘The Trinity, Adiaphora, Ecclesiology, and Reformation: John Owen’s Theology of Religious Toleration in Context’, Westminster Theological Journal, 67 (2005), 281-300, reprinted in The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France, ed. Richard Bonney and D. J. B. Trim (Oxford, 2007), II, 243-71

Letham, Robert, ‘John Owen’s Doctrine of the Trinity in its Catholic Context’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 185-98

Liu, Tai, ‘The Calling of the Barebones Parliament Reconsidered’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 22 (1971), 223-36

Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn, ‘John Owen on Schism’, in Puritan Papers: Volume 3, 1963-1964, ed. J. I. Packer (Phillipsburg, NJ, 2001), 83-116

MacLeod, Jack N., ‘John Owen and the Death of Death’, in Out of Bondage, The Westminster Conference 1983 (Nottingham, 1984), 70-87

Malone, A. S., ‘John Owen and Old Testament Christophanies’, in The Reformed Theological Review, 63 (2004), 138-54

Martin, Ryan J., ‘ “Violent Motions of Carnal Affections”: Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, and Distinguishing the Work of the Spirit from Enthusiasm’, Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, 15 (2010), 99-116

Mason, Matthew W., ‘John Owen’s Doctrine of Union with Christ in Relation to His Contributions to Seventeenth Century Debates Concerning Eternal Justification’, Ecclesia Reformanda, 1 (2009), 46-69

Mayor, Stephen, ‘The Teaching of John Owen concerning the Lord’s Supper’, Scottish Journal of Theology, 18 (1965), 170-81

McDonald, Suzanne, ‘Beholding the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ: John Owen and the “Reforming” of the Beatific Vision’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 141-58

_____, ‘The Pneumatology of the “Lost” Image in John Owen’, Westminster Theological Journal, 71 (2009), 323-35

McKim, D. K., ‘John Owen’s Doctrine of Scripture in Historical Perspective’, Evangelical Quarterly, 45 (1973), 195-207

McKinley, David J., ‘John Owen’s View of Illumination: An Alternative to the Fuller-Erickson Dialogue’, BibSac, 154 (1997), 93-104

Narveson, Katherine, ‘The Sources for Lucy Hutchinson’s On Theology’, Notes and Queries, n.s. 36 (1989), 40-1

Naselli, Andrew David, ‘John Owen’s Argument for Definite Atonement in “The Death of Death in the Death of Christ”’, Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 14 (2010), 60-83

Nuttall, G. F., ‘The MS of Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696)’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 6 (1955), 72–9

_____, ‘Presbyterians and Independents: Some Movements for Unity 300 Years Ago’, Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, 10 (1952), 4-15

O’Donnell, Laurence, ‘The Holy Spirit’s Role in John Owen’s Covenant of the Mediator Formulation’, Puritan Reformed Journal, 4 (2012), 91-115

Oliver, Robert W., ‘John Owen: His Life and Times’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (London, 2000; Darlington, 2002)

Orme, William, ‘Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Owen’, in The Works of John Owen D.D., ed. Thomas Russell (London, 1826), 1-363

Packer, J. I., ‘Introduction’ to Hebrews: Crossway Classic Commentaries, ed. J. I. Packer and Alister McGrath (Wheaton, IL, 1998)

_____, ‘Introduction’ to Sin and Temptation: The Challenge of Personal Holiness, ed. James M. Houston (Minneapolis, 1983)

_____, ‘Introductory Essay’, to John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (London, 1959)

_____, ‘A Puritan Perspective: Trinitarian Godliness according to John Owen’, in God the Holy Trinity: Reflections on Christian Faith and Practice: Beeson Divinity Studies, ed. Timothy George (Grand Rapids, MI, 2006), 91-108

Powicke, F. J., ‘The Independents of 1652’, Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 9 (1907), 21-8

Rehnman, Sebastian, ‘John Owen: A Reformed Scholar at Oxford’, in Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise, ed. Willem J. van Asslet and Eef Dekker (Grand Rapids, MI, 2001), 181-203

_____, ‘John Owen on Faith and Reason’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 31-48

Rigg, J. M., ‘Owen, John’, DNB

Smalley, Paul, ‘A Sweet Mystery: John Owen on the Trinity’, Puritan Reformed Journal, 3 (2011), 81-112

Smith, Christopher R., ‘Up and Doing: The Pragmatic Puritan Eschatology of John Owen’, Evangelical Quarterly, 61 (October, 1989), 335-49

Spence, Alan J., ‘Christ’s Humanity and Ours: John Owen’, in Persons, Divine and Human: King’s College Essays in Theological Anthropology, ed. Christopher Schwöbel and Colin E. Gunton (Edinburgh, 1991), 74-97

_____, ‘John Owen and Trinitarian Agency’, Scottish Journal of Theology, 43 (1990), 157-73

_____, ‘The Significance of John Owen for Modern Christology’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 171-84

Tay, Edwin, ‘Christ’s Priestly Oblation and Intercession: Their Development and Significance in John Owen’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 159-70

Thomson, Andrew, ‘Life of Dr Owen’, in The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, 16 vols. (Edinburgh, 1862), I

Toon, Peter, ‘John Owen and Education’, The Gospel Magazine, n.s. 1420-9 (1971), 184-92

_____, ‘John Owen at Oxford’, The Gospel Magazine, 1396-1407 (1969), 490-8, 535-41; n.s. 1408-19 (1970), 3-11, 62-72

_____, ‘The Puritans at Oxford’, The Gospel Magazine, n.s. 1430-41 (1972), 261-72

Troxel, A. Craig, ‘Cleansed Once for All: John Owen on the Glory of Gospel Worship in ‘Hebrews’, Calvin Theological Journal, 32 (1997), 468-79

Trueman, Carl R., ‘Faith Seeking Understanding: Some Neglected Aspects of John Owen’s Understanding of Scriptural Interpretation’, in Interpreting the Bible: Historical and Theological Studies in Honour of David F. Wright, ed. A. N. S. Lane (Leicester, 1997), 147-62

_____, ‘John Owen as a Theologian’, in John Owen: The Man and his Theology, ed. Robert W. Oliver (Darlington, 2002), 41-68

_____, ‘John Owen’s Dissertation on Divine Justice’, Calvin Theological Journal, 33 (1998), 87-103

_____, ‘Preachers and Medieval and Renaissance Commentary’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (Oxford, 2011), 54-71

_____, ‘Puritan Theology as Historical Event: a Linguistic Approach to the Ecumenical Context’, in Reformation and Scholasticism, ed. W. J. van Asselt and Eef Dekker (Grand Rapids, MI, 2001), 253-75

Turner, G. L., ‘Williamson’s Spy-Book’, Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 5 (1907), 242-58, 301-17, 345-56

Tweeddale, John W., ‘A John Owen Bibliography’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 297-328

_____, ‘John Owen’s Commentary on Hebrews in Context’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen’s Theology, ed. Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones (Farnham, 2012), 49-64

Vries, Peter de, ‘The Significance of Union and Communion with Christ in the Theology of John Owen’, Reformed Theological Journal, 17 (2001), 75-89

Webster, Tom, ‘Preaching and Parliament, 1640-1659’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (Oxford, 2011), 404-20

Wallace, Dewey D., 'Puritan Polemical Divinity and Doctrinal Controversy', in The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, ed. John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim (Cambridge, 2008), 206-22

Williams, Edward, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Owen, D.D.’, in John Owen, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 4 vols. (London, 1790), I, 9-42

Woolrych, A. H., ‘The Calling of Barebone’s Parliament’, English Historical Review, 80 (1965), 492-513

Worden, Blair, ‘Toleration and the Cromwellian Protectorate’, in Persecution and Toleration, ed. W. J. Sheils (Oxford, 1984), 199-233

Yarhouse, Mark, ‘John Owen on Spiritual Mindedness’, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 20 (2001), 342-50

 

(3)   Doctoral Dissertations on John Owen

The following is a selection of the most influential PhD theses on John Owen. For a fuller list, which includes Masters dissertations, readers are encouraged to visit johnowen.org .

 

Bearman, Alan, ‘The Atlas of Independency’: The Ideas of John Owen (1616-1683) in the North Atlantic Christian World’, PhD dissertation, Kansas State University, 2005

Changlok, Oh, ‘Beholding the Glory of God in Christ: Communion with God in the Theology of John Owen (1616-83)’, PhD dissertation, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2006

Cleveland, Christopher H., ‘Thomism in John Owen’, PhD dissertation, University of Aberdeen, 2011

Clifford, A. C., ‘A Comparative Study of the Doctrines of Atonement and Justification in the Writings of John Owen (1616-1683) and John Wesley (1703-1791)’, PhD dissertation, University College of North Wales, 1984

Daniels, Richard W., ‘Great is the Mystery of Godliness’: The Christology of John Owen’, PhD dissertation, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1990

Ferguson, Sinclair B., ‘The Doctrine of the Christian Life in the Teaching of Dr John Owen (1616-83)’, PhD dissertation, University of Aberdeen, 1979

Gleason, Randall C., ‘John Calvin and John Owen: A Comparison of Their Teaching on Mortification’, PhD dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1992

Griffiths, Stephen Mark, ‘Redeem the Time: The Problem of Sin in the Writings of John Owen (1616-1683)’, PhD dissertation, University of Nottingham, 1999

Kapic, Kelly Michael, ‘Communion with God: Relations between the Divine and the Human in the Theology of John Owen’, PhD dissertation, University of London, 2001

Kay, Brian, ‘When Doctrine Informs Devotion: Criteria and Historical Movement Towards Trinitarian Spirituality, with Special Reference to John Owen (1616-1683)’, PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, 2004

Knapp, Henry M., ‘Understanding the Mind of God: John Owen and Seventeenth-Century Exegetical Methodology’, PhD dissertation, Calvin Theological Seminary, 2002

Liu, Tai, ‘Saints in Power: The Barbone’s Parliament’, PhD dissertation, University of Indiana, 1969

Lloyd, R. G., ‘The Life and Work of John Owen with Special Reference to the Socinian Controversies of the 17th Century’, PhD dissertation, Edinburgh University, 1942

McGrath, Gavin, ‘Puritans and the Human Will: Voluntarism Within Mid-Seventeenth Century English Puritanism as Seen in the Works of Richard Baxter and John Owen’, PhD dissertation, Durham, 1989

McKinley, David, ‘John Owen’s View of Illumination and Its Contemporary Relevance’, PhD dissertation, University of Santo Tomas, 1995

Rehnman, Sebastian, ‘Theologia tradita: A Study in the Prolegomenous Discourse of John Owen (1616-1683), PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 1997

Spence, Alan John, ‘Incarnation and Inspiration: John Owen and the Coherence of Christology’, PhD dissertation, University of London, 1989

Wallace, Dewey D., ‘The Life and Thought of John Owen to 1660: A Study of the Significance of Calvinist Theology in English Puritanism’, PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1965

Welch, Elizabeth, ‘Towards a Pneumatological Theory of Worship’, PhD dissertation, University of London, forthcoming

 

 

(4)   Books on Puritanism, Nonconformity and Dissent

Appleby, David, Black Bartholomew’s Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity (Manchester, 2007)

Armstrong, Brian G., Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in Seventeenth-Century France (Madison, WI, 1969)

Beeke, Joel, Assurance of Faith: Calvin, English Puritanism, and the Dutch Second Reformation ((New York, 1991)

Bolam, C. Gordon, et al., The English Presbyterians: From Elizabethan Puritanism to Modern Untarianism (London, 1968)

Burden, Mark, A Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters’ Private Academies, 1660-1720 (Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies website, forthcoming)

Cambers, Andrew, Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720 (Cambridge, 2011)

Clarke, Elizabeth, Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs (Basingstoke, 2011)

Claydon, Tony, and Thomas N. Corns, Religion, Culture and National Community in the 1670s (Cardiff, 2011)

Cliffe, J. T., The Puritan Gentry Besieged, 1650-1700 (London, 1993)

Clifford, A. C., Atonement and Justification: English Evangelical Theology 1640-1790, An Evaluation (Oxford, 1990)

Coffey, John, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution (Woodbridge, 2006)

_____, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 (Harlow, 2000)

_____, Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford (Cambridge, 1997)

_____, and Paul Chang-Ha Lim, The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008)

Collins, Jeffrey R., The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford, 2005)

Corns, Thomas N., Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (Oxford, 1992)

_____, and David Loewenstein (eds), The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (London, 1995)

Cotter, Cory S., ‘Anglo-Dutch Dissent: British Dissenters in the Netherlands, 1662-1688’, PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2011

Cragg, Gerald R., From Puritanism to the Age of Reason: A Study of Changes in Religious Thought within the Church of England 1660 to 1700 (Cambridge, 1950)

_____, Puritanism in the Period of the Great Persecution, 1660-16[8]8 (Cambridge, 1957)

Dissenting Academies Online, http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/portal.html

Dunan-Page, Anne, The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (Aldershot, 2006)

Field, David P., Rigide Calvinism in a Softer Dresse: The Moderate Presbyterianism of John Howe, 1630-1705 (Edinburgh, 2004)

Gibson, William, Robert D. Cornwall and James E. Bradley (eds.), Religion, Politics and Dissent, 1660-1832: Essays in Honour of James E. Bradley (Farnham, 2010)

Gill, Catie, Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700 (Aldershot, 2005)

Gillespie, Katharine, Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, 2004)

Goldie, Mark, The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, vol. 1 (Introduction)

_____, Tim Harris, and Paul Seward, The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (Oxford, 1990)

Greaves, Richard L., Deliver Us From Evil ... 1660-1663 (New York and Oxford, 1986)

_____, Enemies Under His Feet (Stanford, 1990)

_____, God’s Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denomination Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700 (Stanford, 1997)

_____, Saints and Rebels: Seven Nonconformists in Stuart England (Macon, GA, 1985)

_____, Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89 (Stanford, 1992)

_____, and Robert Zaller (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century, 3 vols. (Brighton, 1982-4)

Green, Ian M., The Christian’s ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c.1530-1740 (Oxford, 1996)

_____, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2000)

_____, The Re-Establishment of the Church of England, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1978)

Gribben, Crawford, God’s Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland (New York, 2007)

_____, The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church (Darlington, 2003)

_____, The Puritan Millenium: Literature & Theology, 1550-1682 (Dublin, 2000)

Haller, William, Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution (New York, 1955)

Harris, Johanna, and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (eds), The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (Basingstoke, 2011)

Hill, Christopher, The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries (London, 1984)

Hughes, Ann, Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution (Oxford, 2004)

Jordan, Wilbur K., The Development of Religious Tolerance in England from the Convention of the Long Parliament to the Restoration, 1640-1660 (Cambridge, MA, 1938)

Jones, Robert Tudur, Alan P. F. Sell, and David Bebbington (eds), Protestant Nonconformist Texts, 4 vols. (Aldershot, 2006-7)

Kapic, Kelley, and Justin Taylor (ed.), Overcoming Sin and Temptation (Wheaton, IL, 2006)

Keeble, N. H., The Literary Culture of Nonconformity (Leicester, 1987)

_____, The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Oxford, 2002)

_____, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge, 2001)

Kendall, R. T., Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649 (Oxford, 1979)

Lacey, Douglas R., Dissent and Parliamentary Politics in England, 1661-1689 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1969)

Matthews, A. G., Calamy Revised (Oxford, 1934)

_____, Walker Revised (Oxford, 1948)

McCullough, Peter, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (Oxford, 2011)

McLachlan, H. John, Socinianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1951)

Miller, John, After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II (Harlow, 2000)

_____, Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688 (Cambridge, 1973)

Mortimer, Sarah, Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism (Cambridge, 2010)

Muller, Richard, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, ca. 1520 to ca. 1725, 4 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI, 2003)

Norbrook, David, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 (Cambridge, 1999)

Nuttall, Geoffrey F., The Holy Spirit in Puritan Faith and Experience (London, 1946)

_____, Visible Saints: The Congregational Way, 1640-1660 (Oxford, 1957)

_____, and Owen Chadwick, From Uniformity to Unity 1662-1962 (London, 1962)

Raffe, Alasdair, The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714 (London, 2012)

Rivers, Isabel, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment ... Volume 1 Whichcote to Wesley (Cambridge, 1991)

_____, and David Wykes (eds), Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales (Oxford, 2011)

_____, and _____, with Richard Whatmore (eds), A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles (Cambridge, forthcoming)

Seaward, Paul, The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667

Seed, John, Dissenting Histories: Religious Division and the Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England (Edinburgh, 2008)

Sell, Alan P. F., The Great Ejectment of 1662: Its Antecedents, Aftermath, and Ecumenical Significance (Eugene, Oregon, 2012)

Smith, Nigel, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (New Haven, 2010)

_____, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (New Haven, 1994)

_____, Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (Oxford, 1989)

Southcombe, George, English Nonconformist Poetry 1660-1700, 3 vols. (London, 2012)

Spurr, John, England in the 1670s: This Masquerading Age (Oxford, 2000)

_____, English Puritanism 1603-1689 (Basingstoke, 1998)

_____, The Post-Reformation: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714 (Harlow, 2006)

_____, The Restoration Church of England (New Haven, CT, 1991)

The Surman Index Online, http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/surman/intro.html

Taylor, Stephen, and David L. Wykes (eds.), Parliament and Dissent (Edinburgh, 2005)

Tyacke, Nicholas, Anti-Calvinists (Oxford, 1987)

Underwood, T. L., Primitivism, Radicalism, and the Lamb’s War: The Baptist-Quaker Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England (New York, 1997)

Wallace, Dewey D., Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695 (Chapel Hill, c.1982)

_____, Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation (Oxford, 2011)

Walsham, Alexandra, Charitable Hatred (Manchester, 2006)

Watts, Michael R., The Dissenters ... Volume 1 (Oxford, 1978)

Winship, Michael P., Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment (Baltimore, MD, 1996)

Zimmermann, Jens, Recovering Theological Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI, 2004)

 

Selected Books on John Milton, 2000-12

Dobranski, Stephen B. (ed.), The Cambridge Introduction to Milton (Cambridge, 2012)

Corns, Thomas N., The Milton Encyclopedia (New Haven, 2012)

Dobranski, Stephen B. (ed.), Milton in Context (Cambridge, 2010)

Hammond, Paul, John Milton: Life, Writing, Reputation (Oxford, 2010)

Raymond, Joad, Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination (Oxford, 2010)

Fulton, Thomas, Historical Milton (Amherst, MS, 2010)

McDowell, Nicholas, and Nigel Smith (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford, 2009)

Patterson, Annabel M., Milton’s Words (Oxford, 2009)

Donnelly, Phillip J., Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge, 2009)

Miller, Shannon, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (Philadelphia, PA, 2008)

Campbell, Gordon, and Thomas N. Corns, John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (Oxford, 2010)

Loewenstein, David, and Paul Stevens (eds.), Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England (c.2008)

Achinstein, Sharon, Milton and Toleration (Oxford, 2007)

Worden, Blair, Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England (Oxford, 2007)

McColley, Diane Kelsey, Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell (Aldershot, 2007)

Fish, Stanley Eugene, et al., Milton in the Age of Fish (Pittsburgh, PA, 2006)

Poole, William, Milton and the Idea of the Fall (Cambridge, 2005)

Corns, Thomas N., A Companion to Milton (Oxford, 2003)

Cummins, Juliet, Milton and the Ends of Time (Cambridge, 2003)

Achinstein, Sharon, Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England (Cambridge, 2003)

Parry, Graham, and Joad Raymond, Milton and the Terms of Liberty (Cambridge, 2002)

Hoxby, Blair, Mammon’s Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton (New Haven, 2002)

Lares, Jameela, Milton and the Preaching Arts (Cambridge, 2001)

Fish, Stanley Eugene, How Milton Works (London, 2001)

Loewenstein, David, Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (Cambridge, 2001)

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (Oxford, 2000)

King, John N., Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise List (Cambridge, 2000)

Poole, Kristen, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton (Cambridge, 2000)

Skulsky, Harold, Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise Lost (Newark, Del., 2000)

 

Selected Books on Richard Baxter

Black, J. William, Reformation Pastors: Richard Baxter and the Ideal of the Reformed Pastor (Bletchley, 2004)

Boersma, Hans, A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter’s Doctrine of Justification (Zoetmeer, 1993)

Cooper, Tim, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism (Aldershot, 2001)

Keeble, N. H., Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (Oxford, 1982)

_____, and Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1991)

Lamont, William M., Richard Baxter and the Millennium (London, 1979)

 

Selected Books on John Bunyan

Dunan-Page, Anne, The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge, 2010)

Searle, Alison, The Eyes of Your Heart: Literary and Theological Trajectories of Imaging Biblically (Bletchley, 2008)

Owens, W. R., and Stuart Sim (eds), Reception, Appropriation, Recollection: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Oxford, 2007)

Dunan-Page, Anne, Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind (Bern, 2006)

Hofmeyr, Isabel, The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress (Princeton, NJ, 2004)

Lynch, Beth, John Bunyan and the Language of Conviction (Cambridge, 2004)

Johnson, Galen K., Prisoner of Conscience: John Bunyan on Self, Community, and Christian Faith (Carlisle, 2003)

Davies, Michael, Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (Oxford, 2002)

Keeble, N. H., John Bunyan: Reading, Dissenting, Writing (Oxford, 2002)

Greaves, Richard L., Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent (Stanford, 2002)

_____, John Bunyan and English Nonconformity (London, 1992)

Laurence, Anne, W. R. Owens, and Stuart Sim (eds), John Bunyan and his England, 1628-88 (London, 1990)

Sim, Stuart, Negotiations with Paradox: Narrative Practice and Narrative Form in Bunyan and Defoe (London, 1990)

Hill, Christopher, A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628-88 (Oxford, 1988)

Keeble, N. H., John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus: Tercentenary Essays (Oxford, 1988)

Forrest, James F., and Richard L. Greaves, John Bunyan: A Reference Guide (Boston, 1982)

Sharrock, Roger, gen. ed., The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, 13 vols. (Oxford, 1976-94)

Greaves, Richard L., John Bunyan (Abingdon, 1969)

Sharrock, Roger Ian, John Bunyan (1968)

 

Selected Books on George Fox

Hinds, Hilary, George Fox and Early Quaker Culture (Manchester, 2011)

Hatton, Jean, George Fox: The Founder of the Quakers (Oxford, 2007)

Ingle, H. Larry, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (New York, 1994)

Wildes, Harry Emerson, Voice of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox (Philadelphia, 1965)

 

(5) Books on Seventeenth-Century Education

Adamson, John William, Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700 (Cambridge, 1905)

Bowden, Caroline (ed.), English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, 6 vols. (London, 2012-)

_____, Who Were the Nuns?, http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/wwtn/publications.html

Burden, Mark, ‘Academical Learning at the Dissenters’ Private Academies, 1660-1720’, PhD dissertation, University of London, 2012

Burrows, Montagu (ed.), The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford, from A.D. 1647 to A.D. 1658 (London, 1881)

Charlton, Kenneth, Education in Renaissance England (London, 1965)

_____, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England (London, 1999)

Costello, William T., The Scholastic Curriculum at Cambridge (Cambridge, MA, 1958)

Cressy, David, Education in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1975)

Debus, Allen G., Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century: The Webster-Ward Debate (London, 1970)

Evans, G. R., The University of Cambridge: A New History (London, 2010)

Feingold, Mordechai, and Victor Navarro Brotons, Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period (Dordrecht, 2006)

Festa, Thomas, The End of Learning: Milton and Education (New York, 2006)

Gascoigne, John, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1989)

Green, Ian M., Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education (Farnham, 2009)

Ferguson, Robert, Robert Ferguson, the Plotter (Edinburgh, 1887)

Fletcher, Harris Francis, The Intellectual Development of John Milton, 2 vols. (Urbana, 1956)

Foster, Joseph, Alumni Oxoniensis, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1891)

Greaves, Richard L., The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought; Background for Reform (New Brunswick, NK, 1969)

Haakonssen, Knud, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1996)

Hans, Nicholas A., New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1951)

Houston, R. A., Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education 1500-1800 (London, 1988)

Jewell, Helen M., Education in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 1998)

Kennedy, Rick, Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard (Boston, 1995)

Knoles, Thomas, Rick Kennedy, and Lucia Zaucha Knoles, Student Notebooks at Colonial Harvard (Worcester, 2003)

Lewis, Marilyn A., ‘The Educational Influence of Cambridge Platonism: Tutorial Relationships and Student Networks at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1641-1688’, PhD Dissertation, University of London, 2010

McLachlan, Herbert, English Education under the Test Acts (Manchester, 1931)

Morgan, John Philip, Godly Learning: Puritan Attitudes towards Reason, Learning, and Education, 1560-1640 (Cambridge, 1986)

Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA, 1935)

_____, Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 1936)

O’Day, Rosemary, Education and Society, 1500-1800: The Social Foundations of Education in Early Modern Briatin (London, 1982)

Parker, Irene, Dissenting Academies in England (Cambridge, 1914)

Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de, and Walter Ruegg, A History of the University in Europe, 4 vols. (Cambridge, 1992-2011)

Rivers, Isabel, David Wykes and Richard Whatmore (eds), A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 (Cambridge, forthcoming)

Sell, Alan P. F., Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity (Cambridge, 2004)

Smith, Joe William Ashley, The Birth of Modern Education: The Contribution of the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1800 (London, 1954)

Thompson, Henry L., Christ Church (London, 1900)

Tyacke, Nicholas (ed.), The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. IV. Seventeenth-Century Oxford (Oxford, 1997)

Vickers, Ilse, Defoe and the New Sciences (Cambridge, 1996)

Ward, George, and James Heywood, Oxford University Statutes, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1845-51)

Whitehead, Barbara J., Women’s Education in Early Modern Europe: A History, 1500-1800 (New York, 1999)

Yolton, John W., John Locke and Education (New York, 1971)

 

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