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• Polity, Ecclesiastical

• Discussions on Church Principles: Popish, Erastian, and Presbyterian (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; et al., 1763), by William Cunningham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning (second edition; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920), by Reginald Lane Poole (PDF at Stanford)
• The Perpetual Government of Christ's Church (new edition, with biographical notice; Oxford: At the University Press, 1842), by Thomas Bilson, ed. by Robert Eden (multiple formats at Google)
• Reply of the Church of the Puritans to the Protest of their Late Deacons, by N.Y.) Church of the Puritans (New York (page images at MOA)

• New-Englands Salamander Discovered, by Edward Winslow (PDF at mayflowerhistory.com)

• The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries, by Thomas Martin Lindsay (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life from 1000 to 1260: A Social, Economic, and Legal Study (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by Joseph H. Lynch (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Centenary of American Methodism, by Abel Stevens (page images at MOA)

• Apostolic Christianity: or, The People's Antidote Against Romanism and Puseyism (London: J. Snow, et al., 1842), by James Godkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on Apostolical Succession: Being a Defence of a Genuine Protestant Ministry, Against the Exclusive and Intolerant Schemes of Papists and High Churchmen; and Supplying a General Antidote to Popery (with other pieces; second edition; New York: G. Lane and P. P. Sandford, 1842), by Thomas Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Primacy of the Apostolic See, and the Authority of General Councils, Vindicated in a Series of Letters Addresses to the Right Rev. J. H. Hopkins, D.D. (Philadelphia: J. Kay, et al., 1838), by Francis Patrick Kenrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• End of Prelacy: or, A Treatise on Ministerial Parity and the Non-Efficacy of Sacramental Grace, Versus the Romanism of the Prelatical Dogma of an Unbroken Succession, and its cognate, Sacramentarianism, Papal, Tractarian and High and Low-Church (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by R. C. Shimeall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Validity of the Orders of the Church of England: Made Out Against the Objections of the Papists, in Several Letters to a Gentleman of Norwich that Desired Satisfaction Therein (London: Printed by J. Richardson for B. Aylmer, 1688), by Humphrey Prideaux (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Priestly Usurpation: Its Cause and Consequences (London: Hathcard et al., 1845), by F. Close (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Simeon, by Max Warren (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• J. C. Ryle, by M. Guthrie Clark (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• John Newton, by Albert William Parsons (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• A Life of John Cosin, Bishop of Durham, 1660-1672 (London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray and Co.; Milwaukee: Young Churchman Co., c1913), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• J. C. Ryle, by M. Guthrie Clark (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• Lancelot Andrewes and the Reaction (London: George Allen and Sons, 1910), by Douglas Macleane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)

• The Life Beyond the Veil (1921), by G. Vale Owen, ed. by Engholm. H. W.
  • Book I: PDF at spiritwritings.com
  • Book II: PDF at spiritwritings.com
  • Book III: PDF at spiritwritings.com
  • Book IV: PDF at spiritwritings.com

• Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church, With a Brief Autobiography (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by John Henry Newman, ed. by Anne Mozley (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• The Writings of John Bradford, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and Prebendary of St. Paul's, Martyr, 1555 (2 volumes; Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1848-1853), by John Bradford, ed. by Aubrey Townsend
  • Volume I (Sermons, Meditations, Examinations, Etc.): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (Letters, Treatises, Remains): multiple formats at Google
• Writings of the Rev. John Bradford, by John Bradford (illustrated HTML at CCEL)

• The Cathedral, by Hugh Walpole (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lancelot Andrewes (London: Methuen and Co., 1894), by Robert L. Ottley
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lancelot Andrewes and the Reaction (London: George Allen and Sons, 1910), by Douglas Macleane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of the Life and Works of the Right Honorable and Right Rev. Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester (Cambridge: Printed for the Author by J. Palmer, 1860), by Arthur T. Russell (multiple formats at Google)

• A Life of John Cosin, Bishop of Durham, 1660-1672 (London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray and Co.; Milwaukee: Young Churchman Co., c1913), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• John Newton, by Albert William Parsons (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• John Newton of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth: An Autobiography and Narrative, Compiled Chiefly From His Diary and Other Unpublished Documents, by John Newton and Josiah Bull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London; With Memoirs of the Author, and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character (third edition, 6 volumes; London: Printed for Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1824), by John Newton, contrib. by Richard Cecil (page images at HathiTrust)

• J. C. Ryle, by M. Guthrie Clark (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)

• Charles Simeon, by Max Warren (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)

• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)

• Tithing and the Church, by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

• My Life in the Convent: or, The Marvellous Personal Experiences of Margaret L. Shepherd (Sister Magdalene Adelaide), Consecrated Penitent of the Arno's Court Convent, Bristol, England (11th edition, c1892), by Margaret L. Shepherd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Saint Theresa: The History of Her Foundations (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1909), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by Agnes Mason, contrib. by Ernest Mason Satow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)

• An Address on Congregationalism As Affected by the Declarations of the Advisory Council Held in Brooklyn, N.Y., February, 1876, by Richard S. Storrs (page images at MOA)
• Congregationalism, by Henry Martyn Dexter (page images at MOA)
• A "New Years Guift": An Hitherto Lost Treatise (London: Congregational Historical Society, 1904), by Robert Browne, ed. by Champlin Burrage
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Treatise of Reformation, Without Tarying for Anie (London: Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1903), by Robert Browne, ed. by T. G. Crippen
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine, by John Henry Newman (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• Post-Oak Circuit, by John Christian Keener, ed. by Thomas O. Summers (page images at MOA)

• The History of Pues, by J. M. Neale (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

• What is Presbyterianism?, by Charles Hodge (page images at MOA)
• The World's Edition of the Great Presbyterian Conflict, by David Swing, Francis L. Patton, and Charles L. Thompson (page images at MOA)

• The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those Divines Who Distinguished Themselves in the Cause of Religious Liberty, From the Reformation Under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Black, 1813), by B. Brook
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

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