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• Church polity -- Early church, ca. 30-600

• The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries, by Thomas Martin Lindsay (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Teaching of the Apostles (Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University, 1887), by J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolical and primitive church, popular in its government,and simple in its worship. (Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1844), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lehre der zwölf Apostel : nebst Untersuchungen zur ältesten Geschichte der Kirchenverfassung und des Kirchenrechts (J.C. Hinrichs, 1884), by Adolf von Harnack and Oscar von Gebhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select epistles of St. Cyprian treating of the episcopate, after the translation of Nathaniel Marshall. (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1922), by Saint Cyprian, T. A. Lacey, and Nathaniel Marshall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays on the early history of the church and the ministry (Macmillan and co., limited, 1918), by Henry Barclay Swete (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctrine of the twelve apostles (Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1922), by Arthur John Maclean and Charles Bigg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Entstehung und Entwickelung der Kirchenverfassung und des Kirchenrechts in den zwei ersten Jahrhunderten : Urchristentum und Katholizismus (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die lateinische übersetzung der Didache kritisch und sprachlich untersucht, mit einer wiederherstellung der griechischen vorlage und einem anhang über das verbum 'altare' und seine komposita. (F. Schöningh, 1913), by Teaching of the twelve apostles and Leo Wohleb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ecclesiastical polity of the New Testament unfolded : and its points of coincidence or disagreement with prevailing systems indicated (London : Jackson and Walford, 1848., 1848), by Samuel Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• From apostle to priest; a study of early church organization (T. & T. Clark, 1900), by James W. Falconer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry in the early centuries. The eighteenth series of the Cunningham lectures (Hodder and Stoughton, 1903), by Thomas Martin Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Teaching of the twelve apostles. (Scribner, 1884), by Francis Brown, Roswell D. Hitchcock, and Philotheos Bryennios (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirchliche Disciplin : in den drei ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten (H. Laupp, 1873), by Ferdinand Probst (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the organization and government of the apostolic church : particularly with reference to the claims of episcopacy (Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1855), by Albert Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry in the early centuries (G. Doran, 1902), by Thomas M. Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organization of the early Christian churches : eight lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, in the year, 1880, on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M. A. (Rivingtons, 1882), by Edwin Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of the twelve apostles : with introduction, translation, notes, and illustrative passages = Didachē tōn dōdeka Apostolōn [romanized form] (Parker, 1885), by H. De Romestin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sources of the Apostolic canons, with a treatise on the origin of the readership and other lower orders. (F. Norgate, 1895), by Adolf von Harnack and John Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritische Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Christentums (M. Poppelauer, 1906), by Benzion Kellermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham ... (W. Straker, 1843), by Joseph Bingham and Richard Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the external government and discipline of the church of Christ during the first three centuries (Rivingtons, 1855), by John Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity, and worship of the primitive church : that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ (Lane & Scott, 1851), by Peter King King and George Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The synagogue and the church : being an attempt to show that the government, ministers and services of the church were derived from those of the synagogue (B. Fellows, 1842), by Campegius Vitringa and Joshua L. Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entstehung der Synoden in der alten Kirche. (C.H. Schulze, 1898), by Karl von Schwartz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lehre der zwölf Apostel : Text, Uebersetzung und eingehende Erklärung ... (Ricker, 1897), by Emil von Renesse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of teachings of the early Church, as a basis for the re-union of Christendom; lectures. (E. & J. B. Young, 1893), by Church Club of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry in the early centuries. The eighteenth series of the Cunningham lectures. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1902), by Thomas M. Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of the organization and order of the primitive church : as presented in Scripture and history, to the end of the second century: with the Apostolic succession to the present day (Babcock, 1845), by A. B. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolical and primitive church : popular in its government, and simple in its worship (Lippincott, Grambo, 1853), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A church without a bishop : The apostolical and primitive church, popular in its government, and simple in its worship (Boston : Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1844., 1844), by Lyman Coleman and August Neander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ecclesiastical polity of the New Testament : a study for the present crisis in the Church of England. (Strahan, 1871), by J. C. Jacoby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity, and worship of the primitive church : that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ (New York : G. Lane and P.P. Sandford for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1841., 1841), by Peter King King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The primitive government of Christian churches : also, Liturgical considerations (Philadelphia : French & Perkins, 1833., 1833), by James P. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity & worship, of the primitive church, that flourish'd within the first three hundred years after Christ. Faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages. (n.d.], 1712), by Peter King King and Impartial hand (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity and worship of the primitive church : that flourish'd within the first three hundred years after Christ, faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages (printed for J. Wyat, and R. Robinson, 1713), by Peter King King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ : the antiquities of the Christian church : with two sermons and two letters on the nature and necessity of absolution (H. G. Bohn, 1867), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Christian churches. (Rivington's, 1881), by Edwin Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ: or, The antiquities of the Christian church ... (Printed for Robert Knaplock ..., 1708), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity and worship of the primitive church, that flourish'd within the first three hundred years after Christ. Faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages. (Printed for J. Wyat, and R. Robinson, 1719), by Peter King King and Charles Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organization of the early Christian churches : eight lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, in the year 1880, on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury (Longmans, Green, 1892), by Edwin Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacobi Rhenferdii Dissertationes philologicae de decem otiosis synagogae : in quibus viri clariff. Johannis Lightfooti ... (apud Johannem Gyselaar, 1686), by Jacob Rhenferd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campegi Vitringa Archisynagogus : observationibus novis illustratus quibus veteris synagogae constitutio tota traditur ... (apud Leonardum Strick, 1685), by Campegius Vitringa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian ministry (T. Whittaker, 1878), by J. B. Lightfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teaching of the twelve apostles : a translation with notes; and excursus (I. to IX.) illustrative of the "Teaching"; and the Greek text (James Nisbet, 1885), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity, and worship of the primitive church : that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ (G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1841), by Peter King King and George Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham (University Press, 1855), by Joseph Bingham and Richard Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiastic ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham. (W. Straker, 1840), by Joseph Bingham and Richard Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines sive antiquitates ecclesiasticae (Sumtibus Orphanotrophei, 1724), by Joseph Bingham, Joannes Franciscus Buddeus, and Johann Heinrich Grischov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschiedenis van het kerkelijke leven der christenen gedurende de zes eerste eeuwen (D. Noothoven van Goor, 1855), by Willem Moll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolical and primitive church : popular in its government, informal in its worship : a manual on prelacy and ritualism carefully revised and adapted to these discussions (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1869., 1869), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Law of the suspension of the clergy in the primitive church. (printed by C. Sherman and son, 1855), by Henry U. Onderdonk and Episcopal Church Diocese of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity exemplified in the private, domestic, social, and civil life of the primitive Christians : and in the original institutions, offices, ordinances, and rites of the church (Lippincott, Grambo, 1852), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mitropolity v pervye tri vi︠e︡ka khtistīanstva (Universitetskai︠a︡, 1905), by P. V. Giduli͡anov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entstehung und Entwickelung der Kirchenverfassung und des Kirchenrechts in den zwei ersten Jahrhunderten, nebst einer Kritik der Abhanndlung R. Sohm's: "Wesen und Ursprung des Katholizismus" und Untersuchungen über "Evangelium," "Wort Gottes" und das trinitarische Bekenntnis (J. C. Hinrichs, 1910), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of the twelve apostles, Didachē tōn dōdeka apostolōn. A translation with notes, and excursus (I. to IX.) illustrative of the "Teaching;" and the Greek text (London, 1885), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• View of the organization and order of the primitive church : as presented in Scripture and history, to the end of the second century: with the Apostolic succession to the present day (Babcock, 1873), by A. B. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the organization and government of the apostolic church : particularly with reference to the claims of episcopacy (Perkins and Purves, 1843), by Albert Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origins of organization and government in the early church being the sixth annual lecture before the theological union of Mount Allison Wesleyan College (J. & A. McMillan, 1884), by Edwin Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolic canons. (H. Laupp, 1887), by Franz Xaver von Funk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Grundlegung der Kirchenverfassung Westeuropas im frühen Mittelalter (J. Ricker, 1888), by Edwin Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organization of the early Christian churches : eight lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, in the year 1880 (Rivingtons, 1888), by Edwin Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gemeindeverfassung des Urchristentums. Eine kirchen-rechtliche Untersuchung. (M. Niemeyer, 1888), by Edgar Loening and Rudolph Gneist (page images at HathiTrust)
• De origine episcopatus : Dissertatio ... (Excudebat J. Van Linthout, 1900), by Andreas Michiels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teaching of the twelve apostles : a translation with notes; and excursus (I. to IX.) illustrative of the "Teaching"; and the Greek text (James Nisbet, 1885), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ : The antiquities of the Christian church. (Reeves and Turner, 1878), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching of the twelve apostles. (typois S.I. Voutyra, 1883), by Philotheos Bryennios (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ. The antiquities of the Christian church. With two sermons and two letters on the nature and necessity of absolution. (H. G. Bohn, 1856), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the early history of the church and the ministry (Macmillan and co., limited, 1918), by Henry Barclay Swete (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saïdisch Auszüge aus dem 8. Buche der Apostolischen Konstitutionen (J. C. Hinrichs., 1904), by Johannes Leipoldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolic order and unity. (T. & T. Clark, 1903), by Robert Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'origine de l'épiscopat : études sur la fondation de l'église, l'oeuvre des apotres et le développement de l'épiscopat aux deux premiers siècles (J. van Linthout, 1900), by Andreas Michiels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities of the Christian church. (J.C. Bingham, 1821), by Joseph Bingham and Richard Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolical and primitive church : popular in its government, informal in its worship ; a manual on prelacy and ritualism carefully revised and adapted to these discussions (J.B. Lippincott, 1878), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Episcopal elections, ancient and modern : a study in ecclesiastical polity (Dawson Bros., 1877), by Samuel Edward Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolic church : an inquiry into its organization and government : particularly with reference to the claims of episcopacy (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1855), by Albert Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... De synagoga vetere libri tres, quibus tum de nominibus, structura, origine, praefectis, ministris et sacris synagogarum agitur, tum praecipue, formam regiminis & ministerii earum in ecclesiam christianam translatam esse, demonstratur ... (apud Io. Wehrmannum, 1726), by Campegius Vitringa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching of the Apostles and the Sibylline books (Cambridge : H.W. Wallis, 1885., 1885), by J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical and primitive church popular in its government, informal in its worship: a manual on prelacy and ritualism carefully revised and adapted to these discussions. (Philadlephia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871., 1871), by Lyman Coleman and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ : the antiquities of the Christian church : with two sermons and two letters on the nature and necessity of absolution (London : H. G. Bohn, 1850., 1850), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry in the early centuries (New York : A.C. Armstrong and Son ; London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1902., 1902), by Thomas M. Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Comparative view of church organizations : primitive and Protestant : with a supplementary chapter on Methodist secessions and Methodist Union (London : T. Woolmer, 1887., 1887), by James H. Rigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines ecclesiasticæ. The antiquities of the Christian church (London : H. G. Bohn, 1852., 1852), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Didachē tōn dōdeka apostolōn (romanized form)] (London : John C. Nimmo, 1885., 1885), by Francis Brown, Roswell D. Hitchcock, and Philotheos Bryennios (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the first and second of the canons, commonly ascribed to the holy apostles. Wherein an account of the primitive constitution and government of churches, is contained. (Glasgow : By Robert Sanders, printer to the City and University, 1673., 1673), by Gilbert Burnet and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The synagogue and the church : being an attempt to show that the government, ministeres and services of the church were derived from those of the synagogue (London : B. Fellowes, 1842., 1842), by Campegius Vitringa and Joshua Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Diakonen der Bischöfe und Presbyter und ihre urchristlichen Vorläufer : Untersuchungen über die Vorgeschichte und die Anfänge des Archidiakonats (Stuttgart : Enke, 1905., 1905), by Paul August Leder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Διδαχή των Δώδεκα αποστόλων = Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (in English and Ancient Greek), ed. by Francis Brown and Roswell D. Hitchcock, contrib. by Philotheos Bryennios (Gutenberg ebook)
• An enquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity & worship of the primitive church that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages / by an impartial hand. (London : Printed for Jonathan Robinson ... and John Wyat ..., 1691), by Peter King King (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Observations on the first and second of the canons, commonly ascribed to the holy apostles wherein an account of the primitive constitution and government of churches, is contained : drawn from ancient and acknowledged writings. (Glasgow : Printed by Robert Sanders ..., 1673), by Gilbert Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dissertation concerning the government of the ancient church by bishops, metropolitans, and patriarchs more particularly concerning the ancient power and jurisdiction of the bishops of Rome and the encroachments of that upon other sees, especially the See of Constantinople / by William Cave ... (London : Printed for R. Chiswel ..., 1683), by William Cave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conformité de la discipline ecclésiastique des Protestans de France avec celle des anciennes Chrãetiens. English (London : Printed for Tho. Cockbrill ..., 1691), by Matthieu de Larroque and Joseph Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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