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• Continuity of the church -- Anglican Communion

• 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
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• What People Ask About the Church (first edition, c1992), by Dale Robbins (HTML with commentary at victorious.org)
• The Search for the True Church (c1991), by Joe Crews (HTML and PDF at amazingfacts.org)
• When All Else Fails... Read the Directions (c1975), by Bob Smith (HTML at pbc.org (select right-side icons to read chapters))
• The Non-Orthodox: The Orthodox Teaching On Christians Outside The Church (online edition, c2004), by Patrick Barnes (PDF at orthodoxinfo.com)
• On the Church of Christ: The Person of the Church and Her Personnel (c1973), by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (PDF at Notre Dame)
• Body Life (1995 edition), by Ray C. Stedman and James D. Denney (HTML and PDF files at raystedman.org)
• The Church: An Organic Picture of Its Life and Mission, by Robert Brow (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Church Questions: Historical and Moral Reviews (London: J. Snow; Manchester, UK: Thomson and Baxter, ca. 1862), by Joseph Parker (multiple formats at Google)
• Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, on November 21, 1964, by Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) (HTML at the Vatican)
• The Glorious Church, by Watchman Nee (frame-dependent HTML at ministrybooks.org)
• The Outward Bound: Caravaning as the Style of the Church, by Vernard Eller (HTML at hccentral.com)
• The State of the Church: A Plea for More Prayer (New York et al.: Fleming Revell Co., ca. 1911), by Andrew Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What the Church Means to Me: A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider (Boston et al.: The Pilgrim Press, c1911), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Christian Ecclesia: A Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and One Sermon, by Fenton John Anthony Hort (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds (New York: J. Wiley, 1851), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Reformation Debate: Sadoleto's Letter to the Genevans, and Calvin's Reply, With an Appendix on the Justification Controversy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), by Jean Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto, ed. by John C. Olin (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Tithing and the Church (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1994), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• The Authority of the Church As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer Articles and Canons: Sermons Preached in Trinity Chapel, New York, During Lent, 1891 (New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1891), by Morgan Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Via Media of the Anglican Church, Illustrated in Lectures, Letters and Tracts (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org

• Baptized Patriarchalism: The Cult of the Family (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, ca. 1994), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Catholicity in its Relationship to Protestantism and Romanism: Being Six Conferences Delivered at Newark, N.J., at the Request of Leading Laymen of That City (Milwaukee: Young Churchman Co., c1878), by Ferdinand C. Ewer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism, and on Catholicity (New York: D. Appleton, 1869), by Ferdinand C. Ewer
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Come-Outerism: The Duty of Secession From a Corrupt Church (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Awkward Church, by Douglas John Hall (HTML at religion-online.org)
• The Church of Christ, in its Idea, Attributes, and Ministry: With a Particular Reference to the Controversy on the Subject Between Romanists and Protestants (first American edition; Philadelphia: Smith and English; New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1856), by Edward Arthur Litton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discussions on Church Principles: Popish, Erastian, and Presbyterian (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; et al., 1763), by William Cunningham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Roman Catholicism, Old and New, From the Standpoint of the Infallibility Doctrine (New York: R. Worthington, 1877), by John Schulte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catholicity and the Vincentian Rule, by Charles C. Grafton (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• Christian Brotherhood: A Letter to the Hon. Heman Lincoln (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1859), by Baron Stow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Christian Union: A Historical Study (St. Louis: Christian Pub. Co., c1906), by J. H. Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian Unity and its Recovery (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by John Sidney Davenport
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Exhortation to Peace and Unity (sometimes attributed to John Bunyan) (Gutenberg text)
• Lectures on the Reunion of the Churches (New York: Pott, Young and Co., 1872), by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, trans. by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A New Rome: A Study of Visible Unity Among Non-Papal Christians (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), by Richard De Bary
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds (New York: J. Wiley, 1851), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism, and on Catholicity (New York: D. Appleton, 1869), by Ferdinand C. Ewer
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Church of the Redeemer, As Developed within the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, by S. S. Schmucker (page images at MOA)

• The Convocation Book of M DC VI, Commonly Called Bishop Overall's Convocation Book, Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole World (Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1844), by John Overall, contrib. by William Sancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discussions on Church Principles: Popish, Erastian, and Presbyterian (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; et al., 1763), by William Cunningham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reply of the Church of the Puritans to the Protest of Their Late Deacons, by Church of the Puritans (New York, N.Y.) (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning (second edition; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Reginald Lane Poole (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Reconstruction of the Church: A Symposium (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, 1985), ed. by James B. Jordan (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Body Life (1995 edition), by Ray C. Stedman and James D. Denney (HTML and PDF files at raystedman.org)
• Liberative Solidarity: Contemporary Perspectives on Mission, by K. C. Abraham (HTML at religion-online.org)

• The Non-Orthodox: The Orthodox Teaching On Christians Outside The Church (online edition, c2004), by Patrick Barnes (PDF at orthodoxinfo.com)

• Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays (second edition, 1913), by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)

• Liberative Solidarity: Contemporary Perspectives on Mission, by K. C. Abraham (HTML at religion-online.org)

• An Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership (Philadelphia: S. C. Atkinson, 1831), by Evan Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bible Gives No Sanction to Slavery (page images at MOA)
• Christianity Versus Treason and Slavery: Religion Rebuking Sedition (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1864)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Come-Outerism: The Duty of Secession From a Corrupt Church (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question, by R. B. Thurston, A. C. Baldwin, and Timothy Williston (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.