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Order of Contents

Classical
Medieval  2
1500’s  4
1600’s  6
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.

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Baxter, Richard – A Christian Directory

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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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