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A

Albert, the Great, Saint (1193?-1280)

On Cleaving to God

Alphonsus de Ligouri, Saint (1696-1787)

Uniformity with God's Will

Anonymous

Theologia Germanica

Anonymous (14th c. English)

Cloud of Unknowing

Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)

Proslogium; Monologium; An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon; and Cur Deus Homo

Arminius, Jacobus (1560-1609)

Works of James Arminius

Augustine, Saint (345-430)

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler

Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love

On Christian Doctrine

B

Baker, Augustine

Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the prayer of contemplation: extracted out of more than forty treatises by the Ven. F. Augustin Baker

Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)

Reformed Pastor

Saints' Everlasting Rest

Bede, St. ("The Venerable," c. 673-735)

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Benedict, Saint, of Nursia (480-547)

Holy Rule of St. Benedict

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1090-1153)

On Loving God

Beveridge, Henry (1799-1863)

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Boehme, Jakob (1575-1624)

Way to Christ

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480-524)

Theological Tractates

Trinity is One God, Not Three Gods

Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889)

God's Way of Peace

Rent Veil

Bonaventura, St. (Giovanni di Fidanza, 1221-1274)

Journey of the Mind Into God

Boston, Thomas (1677-1732)

Crook in the Lot

Bounds, Edward M. (1835-1913)

Necessity of Prayer

Power Through Prayer

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

Religio Medici(1643)

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Holy War

Pilgrim's Progress

C

Calvin, John (1509-1564)

Calvin: Commentaries. Newly translated and edited by Joseph Haroutunian

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Of Prayer

On the Christian Life

Catherine of Genoa, St.

Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa

Catherine of Siena, St. (1347-1380)

Dialog of Catherine of Siena

Chesterton, G.K. (1874-1936)

Heretics

Orthodoxy

D

Dante, Alighieri (1265-1321)

Inferno

Paradiso

Purgatorio

de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J. (d. 1751)

Abandonment to Divine Providence

Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul

Donne, John (1572-1631)

Death's Duel

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Sermon Preached to the Lords upon Easter-day, at the Communion

Drummond, Henry

Ascent of Man

Ideal Life

Life for A Life and Other Addresses

E

Eckhart, Johannes (c. 1260-1327)

Light, Life, and Love

Meister Eckhart's Sermons / first time translated into English by Claud Field

Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889)

Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

Sketches of Jewish Social Life

Temple--Its Ministry and Services

Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity

Freedom of the Will

Religious Affections

Select Sermons

Treatise on Grace

Ephraim of Syria

Pearl

Erasmus, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536)

In Praise of Folly

Eucherius of Lyons, St. (d. c. 449)

De Contemptu Mundi

Formulae of St. Eucherius of Lyons

F

Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715)

Maxims of the Saints

Spiritual Progress

Flavel, John (c. 1630-1691)

Christ Altogether Lovely

Fountain of Life opened up

Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption

On Keeping the Heart

Fox, George (1624-1691)

Autobiography of George Fox

Foxe, John (1516-1587)

Fox's Book of Martyrs

Francis of Sales, St. (1567-1622)

Introduction to the Devout Life

Treatise on the Love of God

G

Gardner, Edmund Garratt (1869-1935)

Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises

Graebner, Theodore Conrad (1876-)

Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Gregory I, St. (c. 540-604)

Life of Our most Holy Father S. Benedict

Gurnall, William (1617-1679)

Christian in Complete Armour

Guthrie, William (1620-1665)

Christian's Great Interest

Guyon, Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Mothe (1647-1717)

Autobiography of Madame Guyon

H

Haroutunian, Joseph

Calvin: Commentaries. Newly translated and edited by Joseph Haroutunian

Hilton, Walter (d. 1396)

Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection

Song of Angels

Treatise Written to a Devout Man

I

Ignatius of Loyola, St (1491-1556)

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Inge, William Ralph (1860-1954)

Light, Life, and Love

J

John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Dark Night of the Soul

Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ

Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-c. 1413)

Revelations of Divine Love

K

Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855)

Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

L

Law, William (1686-1761)

An Appeal to all who Doubt the Truths of the Gospel

An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy

Collection of Letters . . . on Several Occasions

Demonstration of the Errors of a Late Book...

Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration

Of Justification by Faith and Works

Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Spirit of Love

Spirit of Prayer

Way to Divine Knowledge

Lawrence, Brother (Nicholas Herman, c. 1605-1691)

Practice of the Presence of God

Luther, Martin (1483-1546)

Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Large Catechism

Preface to Romans

Select Sermons

Small Catechism

Table Talk

M

MacDonald, George (1824-1905)

Unspoken Sermons

Meyer, F.B. (1847-1929)

Our Daily Homily

Secret of Guidance

Way Into the Holiest

Milton, John (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Molinos, Miguel de (1628-1696)

Spiritual Guide

Mullan, Elder (1865-1925)

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)

Absolute Surrender

Deeper Christian Life

Lord's Table

New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples

School of Obedience

True Vine: Meditations for a Month on John 15:1-16

With Christ in the School of Prayer

N

Nee, Watchman

Normal Christian Life

O

Origen (c. 185-c. 254)

Origen on Prayer

Owen, John (1616-1683)

brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity

Christologia

Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Evidences of the Faith of God's Elect

Glory of Christ

Introduction to the Worship of God

Of Communion with God

On Temptation...

On the Mortification of Sin in Believers...

Two short Catechisms

Vindication of some Passages in a Discourse concerning Communion with God

P

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

Pensees

Patrick, St. (c. 390-c. 461)

Confession of St. Patrick

R

Rolle of Hampole, Richard (c. 1290-c. 1349)

Fire of Love and the Mending of Life

Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661)

Selection from his Letters

Ruysbroeck, John of, St. (1293-1381)

Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage and other works

S

Sayers, Dorothy L. (1893-1957)

Catholic Tales and Christian Songs

Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

Early Church Fathers (version 2)

History of the Christian Church

Sellar, A.M.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Sheldon, Charles Monroe (1857-1946)

In His Step

Singh, Sadhu Sundar

At the Masters Feet

Smith, Hannah Whitall

Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

God of All Comfort

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)

All of Grace

Commenting and Commentaries

Till He Come

Suso, Henry (c. 1296-1366)

Light, Life, and Love

Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

T

Tauler, John (c. 1300-1361)

Inner Way

Light, Life, and Love

Taylor, James Hudson (1832-1905)

Union and Communion

Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

Holy Dying

Holy Living

Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)

Way of Perfection

Therese, of Lisieux, St. (1873-1897)

Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little Flower of Jesus'

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)

Imitation of Christ

Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)

Catena Aurea

Summa Theologica

Torrey, Reuben Archer (1856-1928)

How to Pray

U

Ugolino, Brother

Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)

Cloud of Unknowing

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Unknown Christian

Kneeling Christian

W

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts

Wesley, John (1703-1791)

Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists

Journal of John Wesley

Plain Account of Christian Perfection

Sermons on Several Occasions

Whitefield, George (1714-1770)

Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

Woolman, John (1720-1772)

Journal of John Woolman

 


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