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• De imperio summarum potestarum circa sacra. English. (London : Printed by T.W. for Joshua Kirton, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Kings-Armes, 1651), by Hugo Grotius, trans. by Clement Barksdale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The confession of the Church of Scotland concerning the originall of political authority compendiously paraphrazed. Also a letter from an intelligent person, communicating the present affaires of Scotland, March, 14. 1647. ([London? : s.n.], Printed in the yeere, 1647), by Church of Scotland (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• For all in authority upon the earth, and in special, those now in England, to read and ponder [by] T. Taylor. (London : Printed for Robert Wilson, 1663), by Thomas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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
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• Traité des abus de la critique en matière de religion. (G. Du Puis, 1710), by Ignace de Laubrussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church: its ministry and authority. (Rivingtons, 1902), by Darwell Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reformation and conformity. (S. Agnew, 1844), by David Calderwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A conference on the authority of the Church : Reflections on a treatise by M. Claude held March lst 1679, between James Benignus Bossuet, Bishop of Condom (afterwards of Meaux), and John Claude, Calvinist Minister at Charenton together with (J. Murphy, 1842), by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, J. Murphy Baltimore, and Jean Claude (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church's creed or the crown's creed? : a letter to the most Rev. Archbishop Manning, etc., etc. / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (J. T. Hayes, Lyall Place, Eaton Square ;, 1868), by Edmund S. Ffoulkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradition unveiled : or, an exposition of the pretensions and tendency of authoritative teaching in the Church (J. W. Parker, 1839), by Baden Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authority, ecclesiastical and Biblical (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918), by Francis J. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sulle divine prerogative della chiesa Cattolica e sugli odierni errori contro la medesima; Lettera pastorale in occasione della quaresima 1867. (V. Santucci, 1867), by Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of ecclesiastical establishments (William Blackwood ;, 1834), by John Inglis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church : its ministry and authority (E.S. Gorham, 1908), by Darwell Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible, the church, and the reason the three great fountains of divine authority (Scribner's, 1892), by Charles A. Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les principes de droit public de l'eglise réduits à leur plus simple expression ... (Victor Retaux et Fils, 1891), by Camillo Tarquini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Reconstruction der kirchlichen Autorität (F.A. Brockhaus, 1892), by Ernst von Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conference avec M. Claude, ministre de Charenton, sur la matière de l'eglise. English (London : Printed for Matthew Turner ..., 1687), by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet and Jean Claude (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reponse au livre de Monsieur l'évesque de Meaux, intitulé Conférence avec M. Claude. English (London : Printed for T. Dring ..., 1687), by Jean Claude and Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to the eight quæries propounded by the House of Commons, to the assembly called divines, sitting at Westminster, April. 22. 1646: never to this day by them answered, nor they called to an accompt by the Parliament, for their ignorance or negligence therein. ([London : s.n., 1648]), by Edward Barber (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some treasure fetched out of rubbish: or, Three short but seasonable treatises: (found in an heap of scattered papers), which Providence hath reserved for their service who desire to be instructed, from the Word of God, concerning the imposition and use of significant ceremonies in the worship of God. viz. I. A discourse upon 1 Cor. 14.40. Let all things be done decently and in order. Tending to search out the truth in this question, viz. Whether it be lawful for church-governours to command indifferent decent things in the administration of God's worship? II. An enquiry, whether the church may not, in the celebration of the Sacrament, use other rites significative than those expressed in the Scripture, or add to them of her own authority? III. Three arguments, syllogistically propounded and prosecuted against the surplice: the Cross in Baptism: and kneeling in the act of receiving the Lord's Supper. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1660), by John Cotton and Robert Nichols (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dissertation concerning patriarchal & metropolitical authority in answer to what Edw. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls hath written in his book of the British antiquities / by Eman. áa Schelstrate ; translated from the Latin. (London : Printed for Matthew Turner ..., MDCLXXXVII [1688]), by Emmanuel Schelstrate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief plat-form of that government which is called Presbyterial.: By William Ley minister of the Word at Charlwood in Surrey. (London : Printed by William du-guard, and are to be sold by Nathanaël Brooks, at the Sign of the Angel in Corn-hill, 1648), by William Ley (HTML at EEBO 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)

• Divindade de Jesus, e Tradição apostolica. Com uma carta dirigida ao auctor pelo Snr. visconde d'Azevedo. (J. E. da Cruz Coutinho, 1883), by Camilo Castelo Branco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecclesiastical tradition: its origin and early growth; its place in the churches; and its value. (Standard Pub. Co., 1879), by B. A. Hinsdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• De praescriptione haereticorum (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1910), by Tertullian and Erwin Preuschen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tertullien De praescriptione haereticorum (Picard, 1907), by Tertullian, Pierre de Labriolle, and Pierre Champagne de Labriolle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sancti Irenaei episcopi lugdunensis Quae supersunt omnia : accedit apparatus continens ex iis, quae ab aliis editoribus aut de Irenaeo ipso aut de scriptis eius sunt disputata, meliora et iteratione haud indigna (T. O. Weigel, 1853), by Saint Irenaeus and Adolphus Stieren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divindade de Jesus, e tradição apostolica. (J. E. da Cruz Coutinho, 1883), by Camilo Castelo Branco (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thrill of tradition : based on the James W. Richards lectures delivered before the University of Virginia (Macmillan, 1944), by James Moffatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis Libros quinque adversus haereses ... (Typis Academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus and W. Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The third book of St. Irenaeus, Bp. of Lyons, against heresies. With short notes, and a glossary (Clarendon Press, 1880), by Saint Irenaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the connected uses of the principal means of attaining Christian truth, in eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford at the Bampton lecture for the year MDCCCXL. (J. H. Parker; [etc.,etc.], 1840), by Edward Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Episcopacy, tradition, and the sacraments : considered in reference to the Oxford tracts, with a postscript upon fundamentals (W. Curry, 1839), by William Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two exercises for the degree of B.D. read in the Divinity School, Oxford, April 18 and 19, 1844 (John Henry Parker, James Burns ..., London, 1844), by Richard Gell MacMullen and University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on tradition, read before the University, in the Divinity school, Oxford, on Thursday, March 7th, 1839, with additions (B. Fellowes, 1839), by Renn Dickson Hampden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The written tradition; or, The only divine rule of faith and practice, vindicated against the Tractarians. A sermon preached in the parish church, Cheltenham, November 5th, 1842 (Hatchard and Son [etc., 1842), by F. Close (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourses upon tradition and episcopacy; preached at the Temple Church, and published by request. (John W. Parker, 1839), by Christopher Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on tradition, read before the University, in the Divinity school, Oxford, on Thursday, March 7th, 1839; with additions (B. Fellowes, 1842), by Renn Dickson Hampden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradition unveiled : or, an exposition of the pretensions and tendency of authoritative teaching in the Church (J. W. Parker, 1839), by Baden Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• De magisterio vivo et traditione (G. Beauchesne, 1905), by J. V. Bainvel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Ueberlieferung : ihre Enststehung und Entwicklung (Brockhaus, 1889), by Ernst von Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Not tradition, but Scripture. (Hooker & Agnew, 1841), by Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The authority of tradition in matters of religion (Hooker & Agnew, 1841), by George Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• De praescriptionibus contra haereticos (F. Foppens, 1675), by ca. 160-ca. 230 Tertullian and Christian Lupus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanon und tradition : Ein beitrag zur neueren dogmengeschichte und symbolik (F. Riehm, 1859), by Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradição apostolica. (Casa de viuva Moré, 1865), by Camilo Castelo Branco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le traditionalisme et le rationalisme : examinés au point de vue de la philosophie et de la doctrine catholique (H. Dessain, 1858), by J. Lupus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture and tradition compared; in a sermon preached at Guildhall Chapel, Novemb. 27, 1687. (Printed for Henry Mortlock in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1688), by Edward Stillingfleet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Bible, mutilée par les protestants : ou, Démonstration de la divinité des Écritures rejetées par la réforme : ouvrage publié par ordre de Mgr. d'Astros, Archevèque de Toulouse. (Impr. de J. M. Douladoure, 1847), by Paul Thérèse David d' Astros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradição apostolica (A.M. Pereira, 1920), by Camilo Castelo Branco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De praescriptione haereticorum (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1892), by Tertullian and Erwin Preuschen (page images at HathiTrust)
• De immutabilitate traditionis contra modernam haeresim evolutionismi (ex typ. Pontificia Instituti PII IX, 1907), by Louis Billot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De inspiratione sacrae scripturae theologica disquisitio (A.S. Ioseph, 1906), by Louis Billot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tertulliani liber De praescriptione haereticorum, accedunt s. Irenaei Adversus haereses III, 3-4. (sumptibus Petri Hanstein, 1906), by Tertullian, Saint Irenaeus, and Gerhard Rauschen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Ueberlieferung : ihre Entstehung und Entwickelung (F.A. Brockhaus, 1889), by Ernst von Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on tradition : read before the University, in the Divinity School, Oxford, on thursday, March 7th, 1839, with additions (B. Fellowes, 1839), by Renn Dickson Hampden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tertullians Verjährungs-rechte der kirche gegen die ketzer. (C.P. Rehm, 1797), by Tertullian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon delivered at the consecration of the right Reverend Stephen Elliott, D.D., for the diocese of Georgia : in Christ's Church, Savannah, February 28th, 1841 (J. and G.S. Gideon, 1841), by William. Meade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Infallibility and tradition (New York : International Catholic Truth Society, [1907], 1907), by R. H. Benson, International Catholic Truth Society (New York), and Catholic Truth Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tertulliani De praescriptione haereticorum libri : analysis cum appendice De commonitorio Vincentii Lirinensis (Typ. Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 1924), by Ulrico Hüntemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations, by John Francis Arundell Arundell of Wardour (Gutenberg ebook)
• A letter to Mr. G. giving a true account of a late conference at the D. of P. (London : Printed for H. Mortlock ..., 1687), by Edward Stillingfleet and Thomas Godden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A second letter to Mr. G. in answer to two letters lately published concerning the conference at the D. of P. (London : Printed for H. Mortlocke ..., 1687), by Edward Stillingfleet and Thomas Godden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apology for Rushworth's dialogues wherein the exceptions for the Lords Falkland and Digby and the arts of their commended Daillé discover'd / by Tho. White. (A Paris : Chez Jean Billain ..., 1654), by Thomas White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse about tradition shewing what is meant by it, and what tradition is to be received, and what tradition is to be rejected. (London : Printed by Miles Flesher for Robert Horne ..., 1683), by Simon Patrick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Enquiry whether oral tradition or the sacred writings be the safest conservatory and conveyance of divine truths, down from their original delivery, through all succeeding ages in two parts. (London : Printed for Robert Clavel ..., 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The authority of tradition considered, at the lecture founded by the Hon. Judge Dudley, in Harvard College, November 5, 1777. / By Edward Wigglesworth, M.A. Hollis Professor of Divinity. (Boston, New-England: : Printed by Thomas & John Fleet,, 1778), by Edward Wigglesworth (HTML at Evans TCP)

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