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• A treatise on the difference between temporal and eternal (E. Cummiskey, 1833), by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A prospect of eternity: or, Mans everlasting condition opened and applyed. (Printed by E.C. for Joseph Cranford, 1655), by John Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse upon the nature of eternitie, and the condition of a separated soule, according to the grounds of reason, and principles of Christian religion by William Brent, of Grayes Inne, Esquire ... (London : Printed for Richard Moon ..., 1655), by William Brent (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead. (London : printed, and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court, in Gracious-street, [1695?]), by Jane Lead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of eternitie collected and composed for the common good, by W.T. (Oxford : Printed by Ioh: Lichfield, for William Webbe, An. D. 1633), by William Tipping (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A prospect of eternity or Mans everlasting condition opened and applyed. By John Wells Master of Arts, sometimes Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Oxford, and now Pastour of Olaves Jewry LONDON. (London : Printed by E.C. for Joseph Cranford at the Phoenix in St. Pauls-church-yard, 1655. [i.e. 1654]), by John Wells (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A glimpse of eternity Very useful to awaken sinners, and to comfort saints. Profitable to be read in families, and given at funerals. By Abr. Caley. (London : printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, and G.B. at the Bible under the gate on London-Bridge, 1683), by Abraham Caley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Crayon de l'eternité. English (At Doway : By the widowe of Marke Wyon, at the signe of the Phœnix, M.DC.XXXII. [1632]), by Jean-Pierre Camus and Thomas Carre (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The way to immortality: or happinesse in her perfection A perspective view of eternitie, and mirror of felicitie. (Printed at London : [Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet], 1635), by Abraham Darcie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ioannis Grammatici cognomento Philoponi libri duo de viginti aduersus totidem Procli successoris rationes de mundi aeternitate, : ad octauum Physicorum Aristotelis librum attinentes: (Apud Hieronymum Scotum., 1551), by John Philoponus, Girolamo Scotto, Gaspare Marcello, and Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Considerations of Drexelivs upon eternity (Printed for Richard Chiswell, and are to be sold by Richard Parker, at the Sign of the Vnicorn, under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, 1689), by Jeremias Drexel, Richard Parker, Ralph Winterton, and Richard Chiswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• De aeternitate considerationes : coram Sermo. vtriusq[ue] Bavariae Duce, S.R.I. Archidapifero, Electore, Maximiliano et Sermâ. coniuge Elisabetha explicatae : eisdem inscriptae et dedicatae (Sumptibus Cornelii ab Egmondt et sociorum [i.e. Amsterdam : Blaeu], 1631), by Jeremias Drexel, Johann Sadeler, and Raphäel Sadeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caelvm beatorvm civitas (Apud Ioannem Cnobbaert, 1636), by Jeremias Drexel (page images at HathiTrust)

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• With an Eye on Eternity: Incorporating the Ramchal's Classic "Essay on Fundamentals", by Yehudah Lebovits, Mordechai Rosen, and Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto (HTML at Ohr Somayach)
• The Wonders of God's Creation, Manifested in the Variety of Eight Worlds, As They Were Made Known Experimentally to the Author (1695), by Jane Lead (HTML at passtheword.org)
• Essays in Life and Eternity, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• Zeit und ewigkeit nach Thomas von Aquino (Aschendorff, 1914), by Friedrich Beemelmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heilsame Betrachtungen der Todes und der Ewigkeit, auf alle Tage des Jahres. (Johann Jacob Korn, 1755), by Johann Melchior Goeze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Ewige und seine Masken (J. Baum, 1929), by Bruno Wille and Emmy Wille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aussichten in die ewigkeit (Buchhändler-gesellschaft, 1773), by Johann Caspar Lavater and Johann Georg Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb mīzān al-zamān (Maṭbaʻah al-Mursalīn al-Yasūʻīyīn, 1883), by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mortal life; and the state of the soul after death : conformable to divine revelation as interpreted by the ablest commentators, and consistent with the discoveries of science (s. n., 1832), by Alexander Copland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eternity realized. (Published by Perkins & Marvin ;, 1833), by Robert Philip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mensch in der Ewigkeit nach christlich-philosophischen Grundsätzen : als Gegenschrift zu dem Werke: der Mensch des herrn Regierungsraths D.M.C.F.W. Grävell (Tendler und v. Manstein, 1821), by Engel Ulrich Wiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie éternelle : passée - présente - future (E. Dentu, Libraire-Editeur, 1861), by P. Enfantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Lehre des Aristoteles von der Ewigkeit der Welt (Buchdruckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (G. Vogt), 1878), by Eduard Zeller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religion of time and the religion of eternity : being a study of certain relations between mediaeval and modern thought (P. Green, 1899), by Philip H. Wicksteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Van eeuwige dingen (L. J. Veen, 1900), by Henri Wilhelm Philip Elise van den Bergh van Eysinga (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die hebräischen Synonyma der Zeit und Ewigkeit (A. Lorentz, 1871), by C. v. Orelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on eternity from the latin of Jeremias Drexelius, S. J. (Frederick Pustet co. (inc.), 1920), by Jeremias Drexel, Ferdinand E. Bogner, and Marie José Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Wille zur Ewigkeit; Gedanken eines deutschen Kriegers über der Sinn des Geisteslebens (M. Niemeyer, 1917), by Dietrich Mahnke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeit und Ewigkeit im späteren Platonismus (Aschendorff, 1913), by Hans Leisegang (page images at HathiTrust)
• El sentimiento de lo eterno (meditacíon) (Mundo latino, 1929), by Victoriano García Martí (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo infinito (Santiago : Impr. Chile, 1924., 1924), by Nataniel Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of time and eternity. (Greenwich Book Publishers, 1959), by Charles Cryer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Discourse of eternitie, collected and composed for the common good being necessary for all seasons, but especially for this time of calamitie and destruction. (Printed at London : By George Miller, for Christopher Meredith ..., 1646) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A glimpse of eternity very useful to awaken sinners and to comfort saints : profitable to be read in families / by A.C. (London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst ... and by G.B. ..., 1679), by A. C. (Abraham Caley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity into which all men must enter, when they go out of time. II. That we should eye eternity, and look at eternal things. III. That this looking ought to have an influence upon us, in all that we do. / By Tho. Doolittle. ; [Two lines from Matthew] (Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet and T. Crump, for Nicholas Buttolph, at the lower end of Corn-hill., 1715), by Thomas Doolittle (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The literature of the doctrine of a future life, or, A catalogue of works relating to the nature, origin, and destiny of the soul (W.J. Widdleton, 1871), by Ezra Abbot and William Rounseville Alger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The considerations of Drexelins upon eternity. Made English from the Latin. (Printed [by] J. Walthoe, for D. Brown, 1710), by Jeremias Drexel and Samuel Dunster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The considerations of Drexelius upon eternity (Printed for J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, and B. Cowse, 1716), by Jeremias Drexel and Ralph Winterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• De aeternitate considerationes coram Ser.mo vtriusque Bavariae Duce, S.R.I. Archidapifero, Electore, Maximiliano et Ser.ma Coninge Elisabetha explicatae: (Sumptibus Cornelii ab Egmondt et Sociorum, 1634), by Jeremias Drexel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on eternity from the latin of Jeremias Drexelius, S. J. (Frederick Pustet co. (inc.), 1920), by Jeremias Drexel, Ferdinand E. Bogner, and Marie José Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• De aeternitate considerationes. English. 1636 (Cambridge : Printed by the printers to the Vniversitie, 1636), by Jeremias Drexel and Ralph Winterton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De aeternitate considerationes. Welsh (Printiedig yn Rhydychen : Gan Hen. Hall tros Rich. Davis ..., 1661), by Jeremias Drexel and Ralph Winterton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vselenskoe di e lo. (Tip. Venske i Li u bek, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The eye of faith, looking at eterntty [sic] being the sum and substance of a sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of York, the sixth Sunday after Trinity, July the second, 1665 / by Christopher Bradley ... (York : Printed by Stephen Bulkley, and are to be sold by Francis Manbarne, 1666), by Christopher Bradley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De eo qvod vervm et imaginarivm est in geometria infinitorvm ... (Ex Officina Langenhemiana, 1737), by Christian Gottlob Siegart and Gottlieb Blümelius (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tractatus de Successivis, Attributed to William Ockham, Edited with a Study on the Life and Works of Ockham (Franciscan Institute Publications #1; Tractatus in Latin and commentary in English; St. Bonaventure, NY: St. Bonaventure College, 1944), ed. by Philotheus Boehner, contrib. by William of Ockham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zweifel über die Kantischen Begriffe von Zeit und Raum (Grattenauer, 1788), by Adam Weishaupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world wherein the greatness, littleness, and lastingness of bodies are freely handled : with an answer to Tentamine [sic] de Deo by S.P. ... / by N. Fairfax ... (London : Printed for Robert Boulter ..., 1674), by Nathaniel Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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