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Order of Contents
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Articles
Antiquity
Seneca has several famous letters on friendship
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Medieval
Bernard of Clairvaux – ch. 8, ‘Letters of Friendship’ in The Love of God & Spiritual Friendship ed. James Houston (Multinomah Press, 1983), pp. 217-33
Aelred of Rievaulx – ch. 9, ‘Spiritual Friendship: Excerpts’ in Bernard of Clairvaux, The Love of God & Spiritual Friendship ed. James Houston (Multinomah Press, 1983), pp. 233-53
Aquinas, Thomas – on Friendship
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1500’s
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
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1600’s
Cushman, Robert – on 1 Cor. 10:24 (1622) 19 pp.
of New England
Wither, George – Friendship (London: 1653) 36 pp.
Masters, Samuel – A Discourse of Friendship Preached… (London: 1685) 34 pp. on Prov. 17:17
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 (London, 1673), pt. 4, ch. 28, pp. 180-86
Title 6. Cases and directions for intimate, special friends
Directions for the right use of special bosom friendship
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1700’s
Willard, Samuel – ‘The Blessing of Friendship’ in A Complete Body of Divinity, an excerpt from a sermon on the 5th Commandment at Purely Presbyterian
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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Books
Antiquity
Cicero – Laelius, a Discourse of Friendship, together with a Pastoral Dialogue concerning Friendship & Love (London: 1691) 107 pp.
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Medieval
Aelred of Rievaulx – On Spiritual Friendship tr. Mary Eugenia Laker in Cistercian Fathers Series, no. 5 (Cistercian Publications, 1974)
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1500’s
Erasmus – Treatise on Friendship
Daneau, Lambert – True & Christian Friendship, with all the Branches, Members, Parts and Circumstances Thereof… (1586) 110 pp.
M.B. – The Trial of True Friendship (1596)
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1600’s
Taylor, Jeremy – A Discourse of the Nature, Offices & Measures of Friendship, with Rules of Conducting It… (1657) 176 pp.
E.G. – A Discourse of Friendship (1676) 172 pp.
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1800’s
Trumbull, H. Clay – Friendship: the Master Passion: the Nature & History of Friendship, & its Place as a Force in the World (Philadelphia: 1894) 410 pp. ToC The modern reprint has 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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