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• Theology, Practical -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Asceticism -- Early works to 1800
• Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800
• Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800
• Christian life -- Anglican authors -- Early works to 1800
• Christian life -- Catholic authors -- Early works to 1800

• Christian life -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Christian life -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)
• Disputationes Camaldulenses (Latin manuscript facsimile with pages in reverse order; ca. 1474), by Cristoforo Landino (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Cristiano de Estos Tiempos, Confundido por los Primeros Cristianos (6th impression, 2 volumes, in Spanish; Madrid: Por M. Escribano, 1778), by Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, trans. by Francisco Mariano Nipho
  • Book 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Book 2: multiple formats at Google
• Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage; London: Printed by T. R. for L. Lloyd, 1661), contrib. by Samuel Pordage and John Pordage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• This Was Given to Major Generall Harrison and the Rest (London: Printed for T. Simmons, 1660), by Margaret Fell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathTrust
• The Wells of Salvation Opened (London: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for R. Smith, 1655), by William Spurstowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Several Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Bear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed for J. Rothwell, 1654), by Christopher Love (multiple formats at Google)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Severall Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Hear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for J. Rothwell, 1653), by Christopher Love (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Buds and Blossoms of Piety, With Some Fruit of the Spirit of Love, and Directions to the Divine Wisdom (London: L. Hinde, 1766), by Benjamin Antrobus (HTML and page images at Earlham)
• The Epistles of Jacob Behmen (London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1649), by Jakob Böhme, trans. by John Ellistone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ladies' Calling (second impression; 2 parts in 1 volume; Oxford: At the Theatre, 1673), by Richard Allestree
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, That He May Please God (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1842), by Lewis Bayly (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Disce Vivere: Learn to Live (reprinted from a 1634 edition for W. Pickering, 1848), by Christopher Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, and in English The Manual of the Christian Knight (London: Methuen and Co., 1905), by Desiderius Erasmus (multiple formats at libertyfund.org)
• The Instructions of Commodianus, by Commodianus (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Life of God in the Soul of Man, by Henry Scougal (multiple formats at CCEL)
• On Cleaving to God (includes Latin text in RTF form), trans. by John Richards, contrib. by Saint Albertus Magnus (multiple formats at CCEL)
• On Union with God, contrib. by Saint Albertus Magnus and P. J. Berthier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend, by Thomas Browne, ed. by J. W. Willis Bund
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, by Philip Doddridge (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Theologia Germanica, trans. by Susanna Winkworth (multiple formats with comentary at CCEL)
• A Treatise of the Vocations, or Callings of Mem With the Sorts and Kindes of Them, and the Right Use Thereof (detached from Perkins' Works; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge, 1605), by William Perkins, contrib. by Thomas Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religio Medici; Its Sequel, Christian Morals (both works, presented with similar passages from Cowper; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), by Thomas Browne, ed. by John Peace, contrib. by William Cowper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• The Instructor (Paedagogus), by Clement of Alexandria (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, by John Owen
  • HTML at reformed.org
  • multiple formats at CCEL
• On Contempt for the World, by Eucherius of Lyon, trans. by Henry Vaughan (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian, trans. by Edgar C. S. Gibson (HTML with commentary at osb.org)

• An Instruction to Judges and Lawyers (London: Printed for T. Simmons, ca. 1657), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christian Morals (London: Rivingtons, 1863), by Thomas Browne (searchable page images at Google)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend, by Thomas Browne, ed. by J. W. Willis Bund
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Religio Medici; Its Sequel, Christian Morals (both works, presented with similar passages from Cowper; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), by Thomas Browne, ed. by John Peace, contrib. by William Cowper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML at Bartleby

• Disce Vivere: Learn to Live (reprinted from a 1634 edition for W. Pickering, 1848), by Christopher Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil, 1705), by Damaris Masham (Gutenberg text)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (London: W. Pickering 1847), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (with updated text; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1876), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• Les Secrets de la Vie Spirituelle Qui en Découvrent les Illusions (in French; Paris: E. Michallet, 1673), by F. Guilloré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alfabeto Christiano (London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1861), by Juan de Valdés, ed. by Benjamin B. Wiffen (multiple formats at archive.org)

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