The Pensées of Blaise pascal, a work that discussed rational proofs of Christianity, first appeared in print in 1670. English translations, one of which was titled Thoughts on Religion, were also available (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1516; Daniel Clifford Fouke, “Argument in Pascal’s Pensées,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 6 [1989], 57–68).

Joseph priestley’s A Harmony of the Evangelists, in Greek; To Which are Prefixed, Critical Dissertations in English (London, 1777) and A Harmony of the Evangelists in English: With Critical Dissertations, an Occasional Paraphrase, and Notes for the Use of the Unlearned (London, 1780) arranged the New Testament gospels in chronological order (DNB description begins H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, In Association with The British Academy, From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000, Oxford, 2004, 60 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1492).