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• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)
• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

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

• Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• Scottish Confession of Faith, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)

• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)
• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

• The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, by John Knox
  • HTML with commentary at Still Waters
  • Gutenberg text

• A Fair and Impartial Testimony Essayed In Name Of a Number of Ministers, Elders, and Christian People of the Church of Scotland..., by John Willison (multiple formats at CCEL)
• A Relation of the Proceedings Concerning the Affairs of the Kirk of Scotland, From August 1637 to July 1638, by John Leslie Rothes (illustrated HTML at fooguru.org)

• The Psalms of David in Metre, According to the Version Approved by The Church of Scotland (HTML at cgmusic.org)

• Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary, by W. P. Livingstone (Gutenberg text)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Church of Scotland (partial serial archives)

• The Crook in the Lot, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

• Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Tactics of Christian Resistance (Tyler, TX: Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983), ed. by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (2008), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
• Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (originally published 1971; this edition Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013), by Carl Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Nonviolent Struggle Works (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2013), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
• The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• How Superior Powers Ought to Be Obeyed By Their Subjects, and Wherein They May Lawfully By God's Word Be Disobeyed and Resisted (modernized from the 1558 edition), by Christopher Goodman (HTML at constitution.org)
• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2004), by Robert L. Helvey (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law, by William Hosmer (page images at MOA)
• A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • HTML at Pitzer
  • Gutenberg text
• The Russian Revolution (Christchurch: Free Age Press; London: Everett and Co., 1907), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, and V. G. Chertkov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government, by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
• T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Bahá'í Administration, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)

• The Church Member's Manual, by William Crowell (page images at MOA)
• The New Directory for Baptist Churches (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, c1894), by Edward T. Hiscox (multiple formats at Google)

• The Primacy of the Apostolic See, and the Authority of General Councils, Vindicated in a Series of Letters Addresses to the Right Rev. J. H. Hopkins, D.D. (Philadelphia: J. Kay, et al., 1838), by Francis Patrick Kenrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England (new edition, 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1844), by Edward Cardwell
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• 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)
• The Parish Clerk (c1907), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Church and Congregation: A Plea for Their Unity, by C. A. Bartol (page images at MOA)
• Ecclesiastical Polity, by National Council of Congregational Churches Committee on Church Polity (page images at MOA)

• Small Dioceses and State Conventions: Some Remarks on the Polity of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States, by James V. Campbell (page images at MOA)
• Extract from the Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.D., to the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Holden at Morganton, July 10th, 1861, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Code of Canons, by Episcopal Church in Scotland (at scotland.anglican.org)

• Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Livland; Estland; Kurland; Mecklenburg; Freie Reichsstadt Lübeck mit Landgebiet und Gemeinschaftsamt Bergedorf; Das Herzogthum Lauenburg mit dem Lande hadeln; Hamburg mit Landgebiet (fifth volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; originally printed 1913; reprinted 1970), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Das Herzogthum Preussen; Polen; Die Ehemals Polnischen Landestheile des Königreichs Kreussen; Das Herzogthum Pommern (fourth volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1911), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Die Mark Brandeburg; Die Markgrafenthümer Ober-Lausitz und Nieder-Lausitz; Schlesien (third volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1909), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Erste Abtheilung: Sachsen und Thüringen, Nebst Angrenzenden Gebeiten (2 volumes, from larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1902-1904), ed. by Emil Sehling
  • Volume 1: page images in German
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: page images in Germany
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org

• Journal of the Uniting Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Protestant Church, Held at Kansas City, Missouri, April 26-May 10, 1939 (New York et al.: Methodist Publishing House, c1939), by Methodist Church (U.S.) Uniting Conference, ed. by Lud H. Estes, Edgar R. Heckman, and Cuthbert W. Bates (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Constitution and Discipline of the Methodist Protestant Church (Baltimore: Pub. for the Book Committee of the Methoidst Protestant Church by J. J. Harrod, 1830), by Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Presbyterian Principles, by Francis L. Patton (page images at MOA)
• The Ruling Elder: His Duties and His Opportunities (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, 1951), by Cleland Boyd McAfee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America; and Digest of the Canons Adopted in General Council, in Augusta, Georgia, November 1862 (Augusta, GA: Steam Power Press Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proposed Constitution and Digest of Revised Canons for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, Reported to the Adjourned Convention of Bishops, Clergymen and Laymen of Said Church, Held in Christ Church, Columbia, S.C., in October 1861 (Columbia, SC: Steam Power-Press of R. W. Gibbes, 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)

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