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Order of Contents
Classical
Medieval 2
1500’s 4
1600’s 6
1700’s 1
1800’s 1
Latin 1
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Classical
Seneca has several famous letters on friendship, as does Cicero.
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Medieval
Aelred of Rievaulx – On Spiritual Friendship tr. Mary Eugenia Laker
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Aquinas, Thomas – on Friendship
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1500’s
Erasmus – Treatise on Friendship
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2
pt. 2, pp. 384-85 of ch. 9, ‘The Sixth Precept: & First of Friendship’
pt. 3, ‘Of Friendship’ in ch. 11, ‘Of a Christian Life, & there of Sundry Vocations’, pp. 258-63
Daneau, Lambert – True & Christian Friendship, with all the Branches, Members, Parts and Circumstances Thereof… (1586)
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1600’s
Taylor, Jeremy – “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship, with Rules of Conducting It” (1657) 176 pp.
Masters, Samuel – on Prov. 17:17 (1685)
Wither, George (1653), a black letter volume entitled, “The Triall of True Friendship (1596) by a M.B.;
E.G. Gent. – “A Discourse of Friendship” (1676) 172 pp.
Cushman, Robert – on 1 Cor. 10:24 (1622) 19 pp.
of New England
Baxter, Richard
3. ‘The Christian’s Converse with God: or the Insufficiency & Uncertainty of Human Friendship & the Improvement of Solitude in Converse with God’ in The Divine Life in Three Treatises (London, 1664), pp. 297-379 ToC
A Christian Directory
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1700’s
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Jennings, David – Sermon 6, ‘Religious Friendship, or Young Persons Directed in the Choice of their Companions’ in The Beauty & Benefit of Early Piety: Represented in Several Sermons preached to Young People… 4th ed. (London, 1752), pp. 143-71
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1800’s
Trumball, H. Clay – Friendship: the Master Passion: the Nature & History of Friendship, & its Place as a Force in the World with an Introduction by Maurice Roberts
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Latin Article
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – ‘On concord, peace, friendship & the opposites’ in Select Theological Disputations (Amsterdam: Jansson, 1667), vol. 4, 50. ‘On the Ten Commandments’, Prologue to 2nd Table, p. 791
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