Famous books
John Knox’s The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women was published in 1558. This splendid title was an attack on the ‘unnatural rule of women’, namely Mary I of England and Mary of Lorraine, the dowager queen of Scotland.
Richard Baxter’s A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live … from the Living God was published in 1658.
Matthew Henry’s Exposition of the Old and New Testaments was published in 1708. For at least 250 years this was one of the first books to be consulted by preachers and writers of Bible commentaries.
