The following are links to 18th, 19th, and 20th century Church History documents available online, in English, for free. In some cases, there are better translations or editions available in print, so for serious scholarly publications, you will want to consult those. But for introductory purposes, the following links may be helpful.
Eighteenth Century• Authors writing in English 1700-1750 (PRDL ) - pdf's of facsimiles • Authors writing in English 1750-1800 (PRDL) - pdf's of facsimiles • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Text Creation Partnership - English texts available to the public; use 'Browse' function to see the authors and works) • Evans Early American Imprint Collection (Text Creation Partnership - texts available to the public; use 'Browse' function to see the authors and works) • Astell, Mary - (1666-1731) (PRDL) - 4 works • Austen, Jane (1775-1814) - English, Anglican novelist • List of works online - (upenn.edu) • Emma • Letters of Jane Austen - (pemberley.com) • Love and Friendship and Other Early Works - (gutenberg via upenn.edu) • Many other works • Carey, William (1761-1834) - "Father of modern missions" - British Baptist missionary to India • Works - long list of online works - (wmcarey.edu) • Chauncey, Charles (PRDL) - 44 works available as facsimile pdf's • Dutton, Anne (1692-1765) - Baptist Calvinist poet and theologian • Works (PRDL) • Letters - correspondance with Whitefield and Wesley • Letters - Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8 - (archive.org) • "Who Was Anne Dutton?" in Christian Monthly Record, p. 131ff - (google book pdf) • Narration of the Wonders of Grace in Verse (1833 edition) - (google book pdf) • Edwards, Jonathan • Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University • Works of Jonathan Edwards - links to pdf's of about 40 different works (PRDL) • Equiano, Olaudah • The Life of Olaudah Equiano...The African (1794) - (google book pdf facsimile)• Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of - sponsor of Whitefield, Wesley, Phyllis Wheatley, etc. • Letters from Pastors to Selina (google pdf) • Wesley Works • Register of John Wesley's Sermons • Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition - at Duke Divinity School • Includes list of Wesleyan / Methodist-related journals available online • John Wesley Letters - (smu.edu) and Wesleyan memorabilia images (ATLA) and wesley-works.org • Wesley Family Letters (ATLA) • Steward, Bristol - traveled with John Wesley • Bristol Steward's Diary (1752-54) • Whitefield, George (1740-1770) • Letters - Volume I, Volume 2 (17), Volume 3 (1772) - (google pdf facsimiles) - 1734-1742 Letters (Banner of Truth facsimile on google books) • Works of George Whitefield - Volume 1 (1771), Volume 2 (1771), Volume 3 (1771), Volume 4 (1771) - Volumes 5&6 (1772) (google pdf facsimiles) • Journals of George Whitefield - Continuation (1741) • Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1758) - (google book pdf facsimile) • Memoirs of George Whitefield (1772) • 18 Sermons (1771) - Part 4 - (google book pdf facsimile) • John Wesley, Sermon on the death of George Whitefield - (google book pdf facsimile) • Additional works - PRDL • Wheatley, Phillis • Poems on Various Subjects (1793) - ( google pdf facsimile) • Wilberforce, William (1759-1833) - English abolitionist • A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians - (gutenberg.org) • Private Papers of William Wilberforce - (gutenberg.org) • The Correspondence of William Wilberforce - volume 1, volume 2 (archive.org) • Recollections of William Wilberforce - (archive.org) • Speech on slavery, 1789 - (archive.org) • The Duty and Safety of Immediate Emancipation - (archive.org)
| Nineteenth Century
• Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895; American abolitionist)
• Elaw, Zilpha (b. 1790) - African-American preacher
• Foote, Julia (1832-1900) - First ordained woman deacon in African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Judson, Anne Hasseltine - Missionary to Burma • Memoirs - includes her journals and letters (google books pdf facsimile) • Lee, Jarena - African Methodist Episcopalian Church itinerant preacher
• Books by Baptist authors (Galusha Anderson, Thomas Armitage, Joshua Bradley, Isaac Burgess, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shirley Jackson Case, William Newton Clarke, John Marvin Dean, John Dowling, Charles W. Eliot, Daniel Faunce, Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Burman Foster, James R. Graves, R. H. Graves, William R. Harper, Hezekiah Harvey, Alvah H. Hovey, Eri B. Hulbert, Henry Mabie, Robert S. MacArthur, G.W. McPherson, Shailer Mathews, Ernest Pickering, Walter Rauschenbush, T. D. Teasdale, Chester Tulga, Henry Clay Vedder, William R. Williams) - (baptiststudiesonline.com) • Graham, Billy (1918-2018) - American Evangelist
• Lewis, John (1940-2020) - African-American civil rights leader
• Ockenga, Harold - founder of National Association of Evangelicals, cofounder of Fuller Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, pastor of Park St. Church, Boston
• Vatican II • Documents - note the link under each for an English translation (vatican.va/archive) • Yoder, John Howard (1927-1997) - Mennonite Theologian - Digital Collection -
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