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• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Keswick Convention: Its Message, Its Method and Its Men (London: Marshall Bros., ca. 1907), ed. by Charles F. Harford-Battersby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Keswick Movement in Precept and Practise (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1903), by Arthur T. Pierson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Highest Life: A Story of Shortcomings and a Goal, Including a Friendly Analysis of the Keswick Movement (second edition; New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1901), by E. H. Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Post-Oak Circuit, by John Christian Keener, ed. by Thomas O. Summers (page images at MOA)
• Susanna Wesley (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Eliza Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Coming of the Preachers: A Tale of the Rise of Methodism (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1901), by John Ackworth (HTML in the UK)

• A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland (online edition; originally published 2000), ed. by John A. Vickers (searchable HTML at dmbi.online)

• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Roots of Methodism (London: C. H. Kelly, 1903), by W. B. Fitzgerald (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Centenary of American Methodism, by Abel Stevens (page images at MOA)

• Samantha Among the Brethren (1890), by Marietta Holley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Select Melodies: Comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use, Not to Be Found in the Standard Methodist Episcopal Hymn Book; As Also, A Number of Original Pieces (Cincinnati: Printed at the Methodist book concern, 1844), ed. by William Hunter
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana: Including Sketches of Various Prominent Ministers, Together With Narratives of Women Eminent for Piety, Poetry and Song; Also, Descriptions of Remarkable Camp Meetings, Revivals, Incidents and Other Miscellany; With an Appendix Containing Essays on Various Theological Subjects of Practical Interest (Indianapolis: J. M. Olcott, 1879), by J. C. Smith (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Rev. James Havens, One of the Heroes of Indiana Methodism (Indianapolis: Sentinel Company, 1872), by W. W. Hibben (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland (online edition; originally published 2000), ed. by John A. Vickers (searchable HTML at dmbi.online)

• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)

• English Dissent (exhibit catalogue; 1979), by Margaret A. Howell and Charles F. Mullett (PDF at Missouri)

• Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Albion M. Urdank (HTML at UC Press)

• The Revolution Against the Church: From Reason to the Supreme Being (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Michel Vovelle, trans. by Alan José (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Athanasian Creed a Preservative Against Heresies: or, The Reasonableness, and Necessity of Retaining it in the Public Liturgy (London: Printed for J. Crownfield and sold by C. Crownfield, 1735)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Printed by R. Draper for B. Dugdale, 1797), by William Wilberforce (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (6th edition, corrected; London: Printed by T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1798), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Protestation Issued by the English Romanists in 1788 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1897), ed. by Andrew James Campbell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), by George Edson Dutton (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

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

• Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), ed. by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Ancient, Medieval and Modern Christianity: The Evolution of a Religion (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, c1961), by Charles Guignebert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Trail of Blood (c1931), by J. M. Carroll (PDF at baptistbecause.com)
• Church History for Busy People (third edition, 1928), by George A. Klingman (PDF at brendanu.org)
• The Church: Its Origin, its History, its Present Position (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1867), by Chr. Ernst Luthardt, Karl Friedr. Aug. Kahnis, and Benno Bruno Brückner, trans. by Sophia Taylor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Church, Past and Present: A Review of its History by the Bishop of London, Bishop Barry, and Other Writers (New York: T. Whittaker, ca. 1899), ed. by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the Christian Church (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1890), by George Park Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Christian Church (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by George Park Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the Christian Church, by Philip Schaff
  • Volume I: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume II: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume III: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume V: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at CCEL
• A Short History of Christianity (1902), by J. M. Robertson (page images at Google; US access only)
• Sketches of Church History, From A. D. 33 to the Reformation, by James Craigie Robertson (multiple formats at CCEL)
• An Outline History of the Church by Centuries (From St. Peter to Pius XII) (seventh revised edition; St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1948), by Joseph McSorley, contrib. by John B. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Outline History of the Church by Centuries (From St. Peter to Pius XII) (fifth revised edition; St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1946), by Joseph McSorley, contrib. by John B. Peterson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Church Questions: Historical and Moral Reviews (London: J. Snow; Manchester, UK: Thomson and Baxter, ca. 1862), by Joseph Parker (multiple formats at Google)
• Lectures on Modern History, by John Acton (PDF at McMaster)
• On the Church of Christ: The Person of the Church and Her Personnel, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. C. Winston Co., c1926), by John Foxe, ed. by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Baptist Annual Register (4 volumes, covering 1790-1802), by John Rippon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earlham Lectures: 1. A Compend of Christian Doctrine; 2. The Ritualistic Law and its Antitype in Christ; 3. History of Christianity to Constantine (Richmond, IN: Nicholson and Bro., 1885), by Barnabas C. Hobbs (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (variorum online edition of Foxe's "Book of Marytrs", with transcriptions of four 16th century editions and modern commentary), by John Foxe (HTML at johnfoxe.org)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church, by Orestes Augustus Brownson (HTML at terrenceberres.com)
• What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constantine Popoff (HTML at nonresistance.org)
• The New Epoch for Faith (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1901), by George A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Star Papers: or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

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