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• XCVI. sermons (Printed by R. Badger, 1632), by Lancelot Andrewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, preached in the Episcopal church in Dedham, December 25, 1797 : being the festival of Christmas (Printed by Mann and Adams, 1798), by Thomas Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon preached before the Kings Maiestie at White-Hall, on Munday the 25. of December, being Christmas day, anno 1609. By the Bishop of Elie His Maiesties almoner (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, [1610?]), by Lancelot Andrewes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The recoverie of paradise. A sermon, on the incarnation and birth of our Sauior Christ. By Michael Birkhed ([London] : Printed for Nicholas Ling and Thomas Bushel, and are by them to be sold, 1602), by Michael Birkenhead (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A Christmas Sermon, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Dilemma of Santa Claus (Ann Arbor: James Foster House of Art, ca. 1917), by Lloyd C. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Christmas sermon (C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proč se Bůh Synu swému a Spasiteli swéta práwě mezi židowským národem naroditi dal. Wánocnj Kázani w druhau Slawnost roku 1829 (W. Pessti, U P.J.M. Trattnera a Št. Karoliho, 1829), by Ján Kollár (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas sermon (Dutton, 1890), by Phillips Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas : one thousand nine hundred and seventeen years after (published by James Foster House of Art, 1917), by Lloyd C. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Thy word is truth." An answer to Robert Ingersoll's charges against Christianity. (Tower Bible & Tract Society, 1892), by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Christmas sermons : Sunday, December 25, 1881 (E.P. Judd, 1882), by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Thomas Rutherton Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fire in the snow (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1916), by Charles Edward Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two advents of Christ : a Christmas sermon. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon sketches for the Christian year (Skeffington & Son, 1907), by E. E. Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon on the nativity of our lord preached in St. Paul's Church, Newburyport. (Printed by Morss and Brewster, 1838), by James Morss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmastide in St. Paul's : sermons bearing chiefly on the birth of our Lord and the end of the year (Rivingtons, 1889), by H. P. Liddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The angels' song (Alexander Strahan, 1866), by Thomas Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luther's Christmas sermons : Epistles (Luther Press, 1908), by Martin Luther and John Nicholas Lenker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, preached in the Episcopal church in Dedham, December 25, 1797 : being the festival of Christmas (Printed by Mann and Adams, 1798), by Thomas Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmastide in St. Paul's : sermons bearing chiefly on the birth of our Lord and the end of the year (Longmans, Green, 1903), by Henry Parry Liddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeen sermons on the nativity (Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1900), by Lancelot Andrewes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Advent and Christmas sermons by representative preachers (Doran, 1925), by Frederick J. North (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent and Christmas : including the famous treatise on the incarnation called "Missus est" (Ignatius Press, 1909), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeen sermons on the nativity (London : Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [1887?], 1887), by Lancelot Andrewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Angels' Song, by Thomas Guthrie (Gutenberg ebook)
• A sermon of the nativity of our Lord preached before the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-house on Christmas Day, 1686 / by Thomas Godden. (London : Printed by Henry Hills, 1686), by Thomas Godden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mysterie of Christes natiuitie A sermon preached in the parish church of All-Saints in Dorchester, within the countie of Dorset, the 25. day of December 1613. being Christmas Daye. By William Iones, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods Word. (London : Printed [by William Stansby] for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery-lane, neere Seriants Inne, 1614), by William Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-hall on Christmas-Day, 1691 by ... John, Lord Archbishop of York ... (London : Printed for Walter Kettilby ..., 1692), by John Sharp (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1693 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester. (London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ..., 1694), by Edward Stillingfleet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, on Christmas-Day, 1689 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. (London : Printed for Richard Chiswell ..., 1690), by Gilbert Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. (London : Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 1697), by Gilbert Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before His Maiestie at White-Hall, on Tuesday the 25. of December, being Christmas day, by the Bishop of Elie His Maiesties almoner. Anno 1610: (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, [1610?]), by Lancelot Andrewes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ... (London : Printed by S. Roycroft, for Robert Clavell ..., 1685), by Humphrey Gower (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preached at Guildhall-Chappel Decemb. 24, 1682 before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor &c. by John James. (London : Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1683), by John James (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tvvo sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall. Of the birth of Christ The one on Christmas day anno 1609. The other on Christmas last anno 1610. By the Bishop of Elie his Maiesties almoner. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno 1610), by Lancelot Andrewes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The feast of feasts, or, The celebration of the sacred nativity of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesvs Christ grounded upon the Scriptures and confirmed by the practice of the Christian church in all ages. (Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield ..., 1644), by Edward Fisher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sermon preach'd on the 25th of December, being the nativity of our Saviour. By the author of The life of God in the soul of man. (Boston, N.E. : [s.n.], Re-printed in the year 1737), by Henry Scougal (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A sermon preached at the Queen's Chappel in Boston, upon Christmas Day, the 25th. of December, 1712. Publish'd at the request of the gentlemen of the vestry. / By Mr. Harris, one of the Ministers of the said chappel, and fellow of Jesus-College, in Oxford. (Boston in New-England: : Printed by B. Green: sold by Joanna Perry, at her shop in King Street., 1712), by Henry Harris (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Grace defended. A censure on the ungodliness, by which the glorious grace of God, is too commonly abused. A sermon preached on the twenty fifth day of December, 1712. Containing some seasonable admonitions of piety. And concluded, with a brief dissertation on that case, whether the penitent thief on the cross, be an example of one repenting at the last hour, and on such a repentance received unto mercy? / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Isaiah] (Boston: : Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Gerrish, at his shop in Marlborough Street., 1712), by Cotton Mather and Isaac Watts (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The certainty, time, and end, of the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the accomplishment of several of the prophecys [sic], relating thereto. : A sermon, at the lecture, in Marblehead, December 25. 1729. : To which is added, an appendix, attempting more clearly to state, the true year of our Lord's nativity. / By John Barnard, V.D.M. of Marblehead. (Boston: : Printed for S. Gerrish, at the lower end of Cornhill., 1731), by John Barnard (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The harmony between the Old and New Testaments respecting the Messiah: being the substance of two sermons preached before the united congregations of Christ-Church and St. Peter's, Philadelphia, on Christmas-Day, 1773; and on the Sunday when a collection was made for the relief of the poor of those congregations. / By T. Coombe, M.A. Chaplain to the most noble the Marquis of Rockingham, and one of the assistant ministers of Christ-Church and St. Peter's. ; [Two lines from Religio Philosophi] (Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Thomas Coombe and Charles Watson-Wentworth Rockingham (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The nativity of Christ: discourse delivered in Christ-Church, Wallingford, December 25, 1788; and in the city of New-Haven, on Lord's-Day, January 4, 1789. : To which is subjoined (by particular desire) a prayer after the sermon when delivered at Wallingford. / By James Dana, D.D. Senior Pastor of the First Church in Wallingford. ; [Seven lines from Saint Paul] (New-Haven: : Printed by J. Meigs,, 1789), by James Dana (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A sermon, delivered in Barkhemstead on Christmas Day, December 25, 1787, before the Episcopal Society and others convened on that solemn occasion. / By Jonathan Marsh, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in New-Hartford. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts] ; Published at the request of his hearers. (Hartford: : Printed by Nathaniel Patten., M,DCC,LXXX,VIII. [1788]), by Jonathan Marsh (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The cry of the watchmen of Mount Ephraim! Being the substance of a discourse, delivered at the Universal Meeting-House, Portsmouth, New-Hampshire: on Thursday, Dec. 25, 1794: and now published at the request of the wardens, in behalf of the society, usually worshipping in said place. / By George Richards. ; [Three lines of quotations] (Portsmouth [N.H.]: : Printed by John Melcher,, 1795), by George Richards (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A short view, and defence of the ecclesiastical rights of man, in a sermon delivered on Christmas Day, A.D. 1795. / By David Perry, Minister of the Gospel in Ridgeway. ; [Two lines of Scripture text] (Danbury [Conn.]: : Printed by Ely & Nichols., M,DCCXCVI. [1796]), by David Perry (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A sermon, preached in the Episcopal Church in Dedham, December 25, 1797; being the festival of Christmas. By Thomas Thatcher [sic], A.M. Minister of a Congregational church in Dedham. ; [Two lines in Latin from Tacitus] (Dedham [Mass.]: : Printed by Mann and Adams., 1798), by Thomas Thacher (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1682 by N. Stratford ... (London : Printed by J.R. for Joseph Lawson ... and sold by Richard Chiswel ... and Tho. Guy ..., 1683), by Nicholas Stratford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A sermon, preached in the Episcopal church in Dedham, December 25, 1797 : being the festival of Christmas (Printed by Mann and Adams, 1798), by Thomas Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sermons de Monsieur Massillon, évêque de Clermont . (Chez la veuve Estienne & fils ... et Chez Jean Herissant ..., 1745), by Jean-Baptiste Massillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conciones in festa totius anni (Sumptibus Johannis Christophori Lochneri bibliopolae, 1711), by Philip von Hartung (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.P. Philippi Hartung Societatis Jesu, Conciones tergeminae in dominicas & festa totius anni (Sumptibus Henrici Rommerskirchen ..., 1709), by Philip von Hartung (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.P. Philippi Hartung Societatis Jesu, Conciones tergeminae in dominicas & festa totius anni (Sumptibus haeredum Joannis Weidenfeld ..., 1700), by Philip von Hartung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Predigten über die Feiertags=Episteln im Jahr Christi 1797 (im Verlag der Rawschen Buchhandlung, 1798), by Johann Gottfried Schöner (page images at HathiTrust)

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