Authors

94 authors across the fifty volumes of A Christian Library.

• Abraham Cowley 1618–1667
• Anonymous (the work is sometimes ascribed to George Bull, Bishop of St David's) first published 1680
• Anonymous compiler of Scots-Presbyterian worthies' lives, drawing on the tradition of John Howie's Scots Worthies and the memoirs of the Covenanting ministers Subjects flourished c. 1590–1640; principal figures: Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, 1554–1631; John Welsh of Ayr, c. 1568–1622; Robert Blair, 1593–1666
• Anthony Horneck 1641–1697
• Antoinette Bourignon 1616–1680
• August Hermann Francke 1663–1727
• Benjamin Calamy 1642–1686
• Benjamin Jenks 1646–1724
• Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
• Charles Bonnet; Jonathan Edwards 1720–1793; 1703–1758
• Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna fl. c. 96–155 (Clement d. c. 99; Ignatius d. c. 107–117; Polycarp d. c. 155–156)
• Cotton Mather 1663–1728
• Edmund Calamy 1671–1732
• Edward Reyner 1600–1668
• Edward Reynolds 1599–1676
• Edward Young 1642–1705
• Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690
• Francis Rous 1581–1659
• Francisco Losa 1536–1624
• François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon 1651–1715
• François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon; Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (Nicolas Herman) Fénelon, 1651–1715; Brother Lawrence, c. 1614–1691
• George Trosse (with an anonymous continuator) 1631–1713
• Gilbert Burnet 1643–1715
• Henry More 1614–1687
• Henry Scougal 1650–1678
• Herbert Palmer 1601–1647
• Hugh Binning 1627–1653
• Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664
• Isaac Barrow 1630–1677
• Izaak Walton 1593–1683
• James Fraser of Brea 1639–1698
• Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jure 1588–1657
• Jeremy Taylor 1613–1667
• Johann Arndt 1555–1621
• John Austin 1613–1669
• John Brown of Wamphray c. 1610–1679
• John Bunyan 1628–1688
• John Fell (Life of Hammond); Francisco Losa (Life of Gregory Lopez) Fell 1625–1686; Losa 1530–1599
• John Flavel 1627–1691
• John Foxe 1516/17–1587
• John Goodman c. 1625/6–1690
• John Howe 1630–1705
• John Howe (of Gloucestershire) 1661–1745
• John Kitchin and Matthew Poole Kitchin (d. 1662); Poole (1624–1679)
• John Norris of Bemerton 1657–1711
• John Owen 1616–1683
• John Preston 1587–1628
• John Smith 1618–1652
• John Tillotson 1630–1694
• John Worthington 1618–1671
• Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758
• Joseph Alleine 1634–1668
• Joseph Hall 1574–1656
• Juan de Ávila 1499–1569
• Lewis Stuckley 1621/2–1687
• Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius the Great) c. 300–391
• Mary Henrics (Maria Henrics); François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon Henrics, fl. late 17th c.; Fénelon, 1651–1715
• Matthew Henry 1662–1714
• Miguel de Molinos c. 1628–1696
• Nathaniel Culverwell c. 1619–1651
• Niccolò Balbani (Caracciolus); William Gilpin (Gilpin) Balbani d. 1587; William Gilpin 1724–1804
• Nicholas Bernard d. 1661
• Ralph Cudworth 1617–1688
• Richard Alleine 1611–1681
• Richard Allestree 1621/22–1681
• Richard Baxter 1615–1691
• Richard Lucas 1648–1715
• Richard Sibbes 1577–1635
• Robert Bolton 1572–1631
• Robert Leighton 1611–1684
• Robert Sanderson 1587–1663
• Robert South 1634–1716
• Samuel Annesley c. 1620–1696
• Samuel Bolton 1606–1654
• Samuel Clarke 1599–1682
• Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661
• Samuel Shaw 1635–1696
• Samuel Werenfels 1657–1740
• Seth Ward 1617–1689
• Simon Patrick 1626–1707
• Sir Matthew Hale 1609–1676
• Stephen Charnock 1628–1680
• The Westminster Assembly of Divines 1643–1649
• Thomas Goodwin 1600–1680
• Thomas Hooker 1586–1647
• Thomas Ken 1637–1711
• Thomas Manton 1620–1677
• Thomas Wadsworth 1630–1676
• Various (compiled lives of Reformed divines and worthies) subjects fl. 1583–1669
• Various lives; the principal narrative is the autobiography of James Fraser of Brea James Fraser of Brea, 1639–1698; Thomas Wilson of Otham, 1601–1653
• William Beveridge 1637-1708
• William Cave 1637–1713
• William Dell d. 1669
• William Whately 1583–1639