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15,569 works
Theological and devotional printing in English between 1473 and 1700, drawn out of the wider record of everything the presses produced. Sermons, catechisms, controversies and practical divinity, in the spelling they were set in.
Richard Baxter, John Owen, Richard Sibbes, William Perkins, John Bunyan, Jeremy Taylor, Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Hooker, James Ussher, George Fox
8,967 works
Migne's Latin fathers and the writers who followed them, running from Tertullian to the thirteenth century. It was the standard edition of the Western tradition before the modern critical texts, and for a great many of these works it is still the only place they can be read.
Augustine of Hippo, Jerome of Stridon, Ambrose of Milan, Gregory the Great, Bede the Venerable, Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Damian, Rabanus Maurus, Walahfrid Strabo
2,976 works
Migne's Greek fathers, from the apostolic writers to the end of the Byzantine east, printed with a Latin translation beside them.
John Chrysostom, Origen, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Alexandria, John of Damascus, Theodoret of Cyrrhus
2,296 works
Scholastic and post-Reformation divinity in Latin, most of it carried into English here for the first time. These are the disputations, commentaries and systems the schools of Europe argued through between the thirteenth century and the eighteenth.
Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, John Duns Scotus, Francisco Suárez, Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, John Calvin, Abraham Calov, Richard Baxter, William Perkins
400 works
The Christian East in Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Arabic and Ge’ez, each with a translation facing it. Lives of the martyrs, liturgies, chronicles and the theology of churches that wrote in neither Greek nor Latin.
Severus of Antioch, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Jacob of Edessa, Barhebraeus, Mark of Ephesus
260 documents
What the churches said when they were asked to say plainly what they believe, and the catechisms written to teach it to everyone else.
The Apostolic and Ancient Creeds, Chalcedon, Trent, the Augsburg Confession, the First Helvetic Confession, the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Thirty-nine Articles, the Canons of Dort, the Formula of Concord, the Westminster Assembly, the London Baptist Confession, the Savoy Declaration