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• Lay participation in Christ's priesthood (Catholic University of America, 1935), by William A. Kavanagh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lay helpers (Catholic Laymen's Guild, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholic thought in crisis. (Bruce Pub. Co., 1963), by Peter Riga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les apologistes laïques au dix-neuvième siècle : exposé du dogme, de la morale et du culte catholiques extrait des auteurs profanes du siècle (Gabriel Beauchesne, 1906), by E. Duplessy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Essai d'une définition de la congrégation selon la loi de 1901 : étude de droit canonique et de législation civile (Imprimerie du commerce et de l'industrie, J. Berthoud, 1905), by Paul Gruet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El estado sin Dios (Madrid : Librería de Gaspar y Roig, Editores, 1873., 1873), by Auguste Nicolas and José Vicente y Caravantes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai d'une définition de la congrégation selon la loi de 1901 : étude de droit canonique et de législation civile (Imprimerie du commerce et de l'industrie, J. Berthoud, 1905), by Paul Gruet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine, by John Henry Newman (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
• Lay leadership in Protestant churches (Association press, 1934), by Leo Vaughn Barker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter to the Right Rev. William Skinner, D.D. ... : on the function of laymen in the Church (J. Murray, 1852), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• More lay readers than clergy! A study of the office of lay reader in the history of the church (Church Historical Society, 1954), by Walter Herbert Stowe and Church Historical Society (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relation of the sacramental characters of baptism and confirmation to the lay apostolate, by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C. S. C., S. T. L. (The Catholic university of America press, 1946), by Theodore Martin Hesburgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On consulting the faithful in matters of doctrine. (Sheed & Ward, 1962), by John Henry Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the right Rev. William Skinner, D.D., Bishop of Aberdeen, and Primus : on the functions of laymen in the church / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (John Murray, Albemarle Street ;, 1852), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to interest the laity in missions; an address delivered before the Church Club of Philadelphia, February 28, 1898 (George W. Jacobs, 1898), by George C. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and religion, a functional approach (The Stratford company, 1932), by Walter Scott Ryder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A call to Catholic women for the apostolate of works of love (Daughters of St. Paul, 1960), by Richard Cushing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new layman for the new time, a discussion of principles (Fleming H. Revell company, 1917), by W. A. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lay efforts; its range and methods. (A.D.F. Randolph & company, 1877), by Hiram Collins Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moderne Laiengedanken über Religion und Verwandtes (Werther, 1892), by Friedrich Nonnemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the laity. (Published for the author by Carlton & Porter, 1858), by Lucius Daniel Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christlicher Laienspiegel; das ist, Ein newer aussfürlicher Tractat, von allen weltlichen Ständen, wie dern Leben, Wandel unnd Handlungen, nach Ordnung Gottes natürlichen unnd gemeinen Rechten beschaffen sein sollen. In zwey Bücher abgetheilt. Das erst, von Tugenden, Übungen, Sünden und zustehenden Fählen, die alle Stände in gemein betreffen. Das ander, von jedes Stands besonderm Beruff und Geschefften. (M. Böckler, 1593), by Jodicus Lorichius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian worker: a call to the laity. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869), by Charles Fisk Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The position of the laity in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1886), by Abram Newkirk Littlejohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lay co-operation : a report. (Pudney & Russell, printers, 1860), by Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts. Western District Missionary Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apologie for lay-mens writing in divinity with a short meditation upon the fall of Lucifer / written by Sr. Richard Baker, Knight. (London : Printed by E. Griffin for F. Eglesfield ..., 1641), by Richard Baker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Saint Paul the tent-maker in a discourse shewing how religion has in all ages been promoted by the industrious mechanick. (London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The position of the laity in the Church (E. Stock, 1903), by Alfred Barry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The priesthood of the laity ; historically and critically considered (Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Alexander Roderick Ryder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pharos (Miutʻiwně, 1927), by Hay Ekeghatsʻasiratsʻ Miutʻiwn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Church reform : the inexpediency of attempting it at the present time : a paper, read at a meeting, summoned and presided over by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, of the Archdeacons of that diocese, together with the residentiary and honorary canons of Norwich Cathedral / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Hatchards, Piccadilly ;, 1886), by Edward Meyrick Goulburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The government of the church in relation to the state and the laity / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (s.n., in the 1870s), by Walter G. F. Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Need of lay help and how to draw it out (W.H. Bartlett and Co. 186, Fleet Street, 1870), by William Baird and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Right Rev. William Skinner, D.D., Bishop of Aberdeen, and Primus : on the functions of laymen in the church / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (John Murray, Albemarle Street ;, 1852), by W. E. Gladstone and William Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The power of the Bishops to license laymen to preach and read prayers : a letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in elucidation of the report of the Joint Committee of the convocation of Canterbury, No. 383, on "Readers and sub-deacons" / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Longmans, Green, and Co., 39 Paternoster Row ;, 1905), by John Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revision of the Prayer book and the enfranchisement of the laity (s.n., 1889), by John Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lay Help the Church's Present Need: A Paper read at St. Mary's Schools, West Brompton, by William Baird (Gutenberg ebook)

• A layman's mind on creed and church (Macmillan, 1906), by J. S. Templeton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plain reasons of a plain man against the objects and proceedings of the lay association in the Diocese of Quebec (s.n.], 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A memoir of the life and character of Thomas Wilson, Esq., Treasurer of Highbury College (J. Snow, 1846), by Joshua Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A rule for ministers and people,: whereby they may see how they are engaged one towards another, by Gods word. And (as in a glass) herein may be seen when any fail, and when one or both are faithful. By N.C. a servant of Christ, and of his church assembled at Orpington in Kent. (London : Printed for Giles Calvert, at the black Spread-Eagle neer the west-end of Pauls, 1654), by N. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The local ministry : its character, vocation, and position considered, with suggestions for promoting its more extended usefulness (John Kaye and Co., 1851), by John Henry Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of church government : with special application to the polity of episcopal Methodism and a plan for the reorganization of the General Conference into two distinct, separate, and concurrent houses (Phillips & Hunt, 1887), by William Henry Perrine and James Henry Potts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles of church government : with special application to the polity of episcopal Methodism and a plan for the reorganization of the General Conference into two distinct, separate, and concurrent houses (Phillips & Hunt, 1887), by William Henry Perrine and James Henry Potts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Methodist men : a publication devoted to the activities of the men of Methodism. (Layman's Pub. Co., 1908), by Oliver Sherman Baketel, William B. Patterson, and Methodist Brotherhood (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Defence of lay-teaching. (Philadelphia : Littell, 1823., 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (David Douglas, 1884), by Thomas Erskine and William Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constitution of the Lay Association in support of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland established 1st October, 1845. (s.n.], 1845), by in connection with the Church of Scotland Lay Association in Support of the Presbyterian Church of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (D. Douglas, 1878), by Thomas Erskine and William Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (David Douglas, 1884), by Thomas Erskine and William Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)

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