On Friendship

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Order of Contents

Articles  6+
Books  8
Latin  1


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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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