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Our seven churches. (New York, J.B. Ford, 1870), by Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
To Mr. George Ryerson [electronic resource] : the following remarks are made on the evidence given by you before the Committee of the House of Commons .. ([Hamilton, Ont.? : s.n., 1829?]), by Calculator (page images at HathiTrust)
The Mormons, or, Latter-day Saints in the valley of the Great Salt Lake [electronic resource] : a history of their rise and progress, peculiar doctrines, present condition, and prospects, derived from personal observation during a residence among them / (Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1852), by J. W. Gunnison (page images at HathiTrust)
A collection of items of the life of David Willson, from the year 1801 to 1852 [electronic resource] / ([Newmarket, Ont.? : s.n.], 1852), by David Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
An appeal to the Christian public, on the inconsistency of war with the gospel dispensation [electronic resource] / ([Newmarket, Ont.? : s.n.], 1869), by Society of Friends and Ira Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
The practical life of the author [electronic resource] : from the year 1801 to 1860 / ([Newmarket, Ont.? : s.n.], 1860), by David Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
Children of Peace, the history of a novel sect in York Co. [electronic resource] : established in the early part of this century : their ceremonies and how they conducted their services : the erection of a temple : the oldest band in America : the first organ built in Canada. ([S.l. : s.n., 1898?]), by Emily McArthur and Children of Peace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern religious denominations cannot be truly likened to the regiments of an army [electronic resource] / ([Mount Forest, Ont.? : s.n.], 1876), by Harry L. Yewens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of all religions : containing a statement of the origin, development, doctrines, forms of worship and government of all the religious denominations in the world / (Philadelphia : Crawford, c1881), by Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
The evangelical denominations of the age [electronic resource] / (Toronto : W. Briggs, 1882), by S. G. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
Christian reunion [electronic resource] : the Hulsean lectures for 1886 / (St. John, N.B. : J. & A. McMillan, 1888), by John De Soyres (page images at HathiTrust)
Churches: their origin and claims [electronic resource] : lectures / (Kingston, Ont. : J. Henderson, 1892), by Samuel Houston (page images at HathiTrust)
Yearbook of American churches. (New York [etc.] National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America [etc.]), by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of religion, particularly of the principle denominations of Christians ... / (London : [s.n.], 1764), by Impartial hand (page images at HathiTrust)
Leander Hall; or, The investigation of religious truth, comprehending the origin and nature of the Church of Christ, with its laws and ordinances, embraced in a web of romance from the loom of real life. (Louisville, Ky., Waller, Sherrill & Co., 1866), by Ambie White (page images at HathiTrust)
Minutes of the ... annual session of the Eel River Christian Conference. (Fort Wayne, Ind. : The Conference,), by Eel River Christian Conference (page images at HathiTrust)
Skopcheskī︠ia︡ dukhovnyi︠a︡ p︠ie︡sni i n︠ie︡chto iz bogosluzhenīi skop︠t︡sev v Rossīi = Sammlung der Gesänge der Castraten in Russland. (Leĭp︠t︡sig : Ė.L. Kasprovich, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Religious bodies, 1936 / (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., 1941), by T. F. Murphy and United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
The Syrian Church in Malabar / (Trichinopoly : St. Joseph's Industrial School Press, 1912), by Joseph C. Panjikaran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A brief sketch of the history and present situation of the Valdenses in Piemont, commonly called Vaudois / (London : John Murray, 1825), by Hugh Dyke Acland (page images at HathiTrust)
New America. (London, Hurst, [p.d. 1867]), by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
A sectary dissected or, The anatomie of an independent flie, still buzzing about city and country : in a sudden, but not rash, censure, of a scurrilous petition, intended to be obtruded upon the Parliament by our sectaries. (London : Printed by T.W. for Ios. Kirton, 1647), by Joshua Kirton (page images at HathiTrust)
Vnutrennīe voprosy vʺ raskoli͡e vʺ XVII vi͡eki͡e; izsli͡edovanīe izʺ nachalʹnoĭ istorīi raskola po vnovʹ otkrytymʺ pami͡atnikamʺ, izsdannymʺ i rukopisnymʺ. (S.-Peterburgʺ, Pechatni͡a S. P. I͡Akovleva, 1898), by P. S Smirnov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Staroobri a det s . (Nizhni i -Novgorod : Tipo-lit. T-va I.M. Mashistova, 1906-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Novai͡a Amerika : perevod s angliĭskago / (S.-Peterburg : [s.n.], 1869), by William Hepworth Dixon and V. V. Butuzova (page images at HathiTrust)
Malevant͡sy / (Moskva : Izdanīe "Posrednika", 1907), by P. Biri͡ukov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shtundisty, Postniki, Svobodnye khristīane, Dukhovnye skopt͡sy, Staroobri͡adt͡sy / (S. Peterburg : Tip. B.M. Volf́a, 1910), by Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Religious bodies: 1936. (New York : Norman Ross Publishing, 2001), by United States Bureau of the Census and T. F. Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
A selected bibliography of the religious denominations of the United States (New York : Cathedral Library Association, 1896), by George Franklin Bowerman and Joseph Henry McMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
Christian Wilhelm Franz Walchs ... Entwurf einer vollständigen Historie der Kezereien, Spaltungen und Religionsstreitigkeiten : bis auf die Zeiten der Reformation. (Leipzig : bey M. G. Weidmanns Erben, 1762-1785), by Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter of Rev. Joseph Richardson, pastor of the First Parish in Hingham, to his parish, on the subject of exchanges of pulpit services with the ministers of the other religious societies in said town. (Hingham : Jedidiah Farmer, 1847), by Joseph Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
Nazareth against Nice, or, An impartial view of the existing churches, their creeds and principles, from the stand-point of the written word of God / (Washington, D.C. : T. McGill, 1887), by Henry Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
Unorthodox London : or, Phases of religious life in the Metropolis / (London : Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Charles Maurice Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
Evanss' sketch of the various denominations of the Christian world : and of atheism, deism, mahometanism, &c. : with an account of several new sects / (London : Longman & Co., 1841), by John Evans, James Hews Bransby, and James Hews Bransby (page images at HathiTrust)
Chemreki : Otvi︠e︡tvlenīe Starago Izraili︠a︡ / (Petrograd : [s.n.], 1916), by Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich and Knigoizdatelʹstvo "Zhiznʹ i znanīe." (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
O zapadnykh vi︠e︡roispovi︠e︡danīi︠a︡kh i sektakh protestantskikh : istoricheskīĭ ocherk (Sanktpeterburg : V tip. Morskago ministerstva, 1861), by Evgraf Beneskriptov (page images at HathiTrust)
Russkīĭ prostonarodnyĭ mistit︠s︡izm : (Sanktpeterburg : Tip. departamenta udi︠e︡lov, 1869), by Nikolaĭ Barsov and Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo. Otdi︠e︡lenīe ėtnografīi (page images at HathiTrust)
Li͡udi bozhīi : russkai͡a sekta tak nazyvaemykh dukhovnykh khristīan / (Kazanʹ : V universitetskoĭ tip., 1869), by Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Dobrotvorskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
Lectures on foreign churches. (Edinburgh : W.P. Kennedy, 1846), by John Wilson and Free Church of Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
Si︠u︡taevt︠s︡y : ocherk / (S.-Peterburg : Izd. V.I. I︠A︡kovenko, 1910), by A. S. Prugavin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Unterscheidungslehren der verschiedenen christlichen Bekenntnisse im Lichte der heiligen Schrift : nebst Darlegung der Bedeutsamkeit und des Zusammenhanges reiner evangelischen Lehre und einem Abriss der hauptsächlichsten ungesunden religiösen Richtungen in der evangelischen Christenheit / (Leipzig : Dörffling und Franke, 1899), by Karl Graul and Reinhold Seeberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ein Blatt aus der Geschichte des Stundismus in Russland / (Berlin : Deutsche Orient Mission, 1904), by Christophilos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Starodubʹe : zapiski protoīerei︠a︡ S.-Peterburgskoĭ nikolʹskoĭ edinovi︠e︡rcheskoĭ t︠s︡erkvi / (Kazanʹ : V Universitetskoĭ tipografīi, 1874-), by T. A. Verkhovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The kingdom of Christ; or, Hints on the principles, ordinances, and constitution of the Catholic church, in letters to a member of the Society of Friends, (London, J.M. Dent & Co.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., [1907]), by Frederick Denison Maurice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rural religious organization : a study of the origin and development of religious groups / (Madison, Wis. : Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, 1924), by J. H. Kolb and C. J. Bornman (page images at HathiTrust)
The highway of sorrow : at the close of the nineteenth century / (London ; Paris : Cassell and Company Limited, 1894), by Hesba Stretton and S. Stepniak (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopedia of religious denominations : containing authentic accounts of the different creeds and systems prevailing throughout the world / (London : R. Griffin, [pref. 1853]) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Russian church and Russian dissent comprising orthodoxy, dissent, and erratic sects / (New York : Harper, 1887), by Albert F. Heard (page images at HathiTrust)
Our seven churches. (New York, J.B. Ford, 1870), by Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopædia of religious denominations : containing authentic accounts of the different creeds and systems prevailing throughout the world / (London : John Joseph Griffin & Company, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
Religious denominations in the United States, their past history, present condition, and doctrines, accurately set forth in fifty-three ... articles written by eminent clerical and lay authors ... together with complete and well-digested statistics. To which is added a historical summary of religious denominations in England and Scotland. (Philadelphia : C. Desilver, 1861), by I. Daniel Rupp (page images at HathiTrust)
Members of one body : six sermons / (Boston : G.H. Ellis, 1892), by Samuel McChord Crothers and Minn.) Unity Church (Saint Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
Li︠u︡di bozhīi : russkai︠a︡ sekta tak nazyvaemykh dukhovnykh khristīan / (Kazanʹ : V universitetskoĭ tip., 1869), by Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Dobrotvorskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
Du sort des minorités évangéliques. (P, [Martinet,], 1877), by E. Doumergue, Eglises réformées de France, Conférence évangélique de Paris (1877), and 1877) Paris. Conférence évangelique (17 avril (page images at HathiTrust)
A short essay to do good / (Stockbridge [Mass.] : Printed by Webster and Stanley, 1828), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
L'Exclusisme considéré au point de vue de l'église protestante / (Paris : Librairie de J. Cherbuliez, 1853), by Augustin Laurent Montandon (page images at HathiTrust)
Christian union; or, an argument for the abolition of sects, (New York : D. Appleton & co., 1835), by Abraham Van Dyck (page images at HathiTrust)
The keys of sect, or, The Church of the New Testament compared with the sects of modern Christendom / (Boston : Lee & Shepard ; New York : Charles T. Dillingham, 1880), by Julian M. Sturtevant (page images at HathiTrust)
Dissent, in its relation to the Church of England : eight lectures, preached before the University of Oxford, in the year 1871, on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton ... / by George Herbert Curteis. (London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1897), by George Herbert Curteis (page images at HathiTrust)
Evangelisches, historisches Jahrbuch : für alle deutschen Confessionen Amerika's [sic]. (Pittsburgh, Pa. : Druck von Ernst Luft, 1878-), by Johann Launitz and Jakob Conzett (page images at HathiTrust)
Svi︠e︡di︠e︡nīi︠a︡ o russkikh skopt︠s︡akh : izvlechennyi︠a︡ iz razlichnykh dokumentov i rukopiseĭ / (Kostroma : V gubernskoĭ tipografīi, 1870), by Eḟim Solovʹev (page images at HathiTrust)
Girkʻ tʻghtʻotsʻ : matenagrutʻiwn nakhneantsʻ. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Heroes of the saddle bags : a history of Christian denominations in the Republic of Texas / (San Antonio : Naylor Co., [1951]), by Jesse Guy Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The soul of Russia / (London : Kingsgate Press, [1914]), by Chas. T. Byford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Autobiography of O. P. Alderman, : from early life to the fifty-fifth year of his age, up to January 1, 1874. (Merchantville, N.Y., ; Buffalo, N.Y., : Baker, Jones & Co., printers, 1874), by Oliver P. Alderman (page images at HathiTrust)
Polnoe istoricheskoe izvi͡estīe o drevnikh strigolʹnikakh, i novykh raskolʹnikakh, tak nazyvaemykh staroobri͡adt͡sakh, o ikh uchenīi, di͡elakh i razglasīi͡akh, sobrannoe iz potaennykh staroobri͡adcheskikh predanīĭ, zapisok i pisem, t͡serkvi Soshestvīi͡a Svi͡atago Dukha, chto na bolʹshoĭ Okhti͡e / (Sanktpeterburg : Imperatorskai͡a akademīi͡a nauk, 1795), by A. I. Zhuravlev (page images at HathiTrust)
Polnoe istoricheskoe izvi͡estīe o staroobri͡adt͡sakh, ikh uchenīi, di͡elakh i razglasīi͡akh : Sobrannoe iz potaennykh staroobri͡adcheskikh predanīĭ, zapisok i pisem, t͡serkvi Soshestvīi͡a Svi͡atago Dukha, chto na bolʹshoĭ Okhti͡e / (Sanktpeterburg : tip. Svi͡ati͡eshago Sinoda, 1794), by A. I. Zhuravlev (page images at HathiTrust)
Polnoe istoricheskoe izvi͡estīe o drevnikh strigolʹnikakh, i novykh raskolʹnikakh, tak nazyvaemykh staroobri͡adt͡sakh, o ikh uchenīi, di͡elakh i razglasīi͡akh : sobrannoe iz potaennykh staroobri͡adcheskikh predanīĭ, zapisok i pisem, t͡serkvi Soshestvīi͡a Svi͡atago Dukha, chto na bolʹshoĭ Okhti͡e / (Moskva : V tip. I. Glazunova, 1831), by A. I. Zhuravlev (page images at HathiTrust)
Yearbook of American & Canadian churches. (New York [etc.] : Abingdon Press [etc.].), by Evaluation Office of Research and Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (page images at HathiTrust)
Den forenede danske evang. lutherske kirke's ... aarsmøde. (Blair, Neb. : Danish Lutheran Publishing House.), by United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (page images at HathiTrust)
The Scottish church and university almanac. (Edinburgh, Macniven and Wallace.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Istorīi͡a russkago raskola staroobri͡adstva / (S.-Peterburg : Tip. Glavnago Upravlenīi͡a udi͡elov, 1895), by P. S. Smirnov (page images at HathiTrust)
Ukazatelʹ russkikh knig i broshi︠u︡r po bogoslovīi︠u︡ osnovnomu, dogmaticheskomu, nravstvennomu, sravnitelʹnomu, istorīi i oblichenīi︠u︡ raskola i sekt v Rossīi, vyshedshikh s 1801 po 1888 g. vkli︠u︡chitelʹno / (Moskva : Tipografīi︠a︡ F. Īoganson, 1891), by S. N. (page images at HathiTrust)
A short discourse (recommended to all our English divines) concerning the death of the witnesses in general, and the two witnesses in particular: plainly shewing, first, the chief and true reason of their death. Secondly, the manner how they are to be slain. Thirdly, the place where. Fourthly, the time when. Fifthly, by whom they are to be slain. Sixthly, the true reason why they are overcome, and why in particular by a war. Seventhly, who they are, and that they have already been slain. The conclusion. ([London : printed, and are to be sold by A. Baldwin, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The cause and cure of divisions: or, The way and means for all Chr[istians] (however they are distinguished [or] named) to come to unity: Demonstrated and pointed out from the scriptures of truth; by Richard Stafford, a scribe instructed therein. ([London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1699]), by Richard Stafford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The reuniting of Christianity, or, The manner how to rejoin all Christians under one sole confession of faith written in French by a learned Protestant divine ; and now Englished by P.A., Gent. (London : Printed by John Winter for William Gilbert ..., 1673), by Learned Protestant divine and P. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The Ranters creed being a true copie of the examinations of a blasphemous sort of people, commonly called ranters, whose names are herein particularised, together with the name of their pretended God almighty, and their false prophet : taken before Thomas Hubbert Esquire ... with a declaration of their fantastic gestures and deportments as they were coming before him, and in his presence : and now committed to the New Prison at Clarkenwell. (London : Printed by Jamex Moxon, 1651) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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