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• Sign of the cross

• The cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnam, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sign of the cross in the western liturgies (Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by Ernest Beresford Cooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnams Sons, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cross in the Holy Scripture : a study of the nature and significance of Christ's redemptive work (Robert Scott, 1911), by James Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A shorte treatise, of the crosse in baptisme contracted into this syllogisme. No humane ordinance becomming an idoll, may lawfully be vsed in the seruice of God. But the signe of the crosse being a humane ordinance is become an idoll: ergo· The signe of the crosse may not lawfully be vsed in the seruice of God. (Amsterdam [i.e. London] : Printed by I.H. [i.e. William Jones' secret press], 1604), by William Bradshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Foure sermons, lately preached, by Martin Fotherby Doctor in Diuinity, and chaplain vnto the Kings Maiestie. The first at Cambridge, at the Masters Commencement. Iuly 7. anno 1607. The second at Canterbury, at the Lord Archbishops visitation. Septemb. 14. anno 1607. The third at Paules Crosse, vpon the day of our deliuerance from the gun-powder treason. Nouemb. 5. anno 1607. The fourth at the court, before the Kings Maiestie. Nouemb. 15. anno 1607. Whereunto is added, an answere vnto certaine obiections of one vnresolued, as concerning the vse of the Crosse in baptisme: written by him in anno 1604. and now commanded to be published by authoritie (At London : Printed by Henry Ballard, for C. K[night] and W. C[otton], 1608), by Martin Fotherby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Second part of this treatise. ([Middelburg : Printed by Richard Schilders], Anno Domini, 1607), by Robert Parker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the cross in baptism considered wherein is shewed that there is nothing in it as it is used in the Church of England that can be any just reason of separation from it. (London : Printed for Fincham Gardiner ..., 1684), by Nathanael Resbury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Answere to a treatise of the crosse in baptisme. (Printed at Oxford : By Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard [London] at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, 1605), by Leonard Hutton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A defence of church gouernment Dedicated to the high Court of Parliament. Wherein, the church gouernment established in England, is directly proued to be consonant to the word of God, and that subiects ought of dutie to conforme themselues to the state ecclesiasticall. Together with, a defence of the crosse in baptisme; as it is vsed in our Church, being not repugnant to the word: and by a consequent, the brethren which are silenced, ought to subscribe vnto it, rather then to burie their talents in the ground. By Iohn Doue, Doctour of Diuinity. (At London : Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for Henry Rockit, and and are to bee sold by Iohn Hodgets in Paules Churchyeard, 1606), by John Dove (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The sign of the cross in the western liturgies (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Ernest Beresford Cooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Le signe de la croix au XIXe siècle (Gaume frères et J. Duprey, 1869), by J. Gaume (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
• The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
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• The Non-Christian Cross: An Enquiry Into The Origin And History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion, by John Denham Parsons (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• ...The cross in the life and literature of the Anglo-Saxons (H. Holt and company, 1904), by William Oliver Stevens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old stone crosses of the vale of Clwyd and neighbouring parishes, together with some account of the ancient manners and customs and legendary lore connected with the parishes. (B. Quaritch;, 1886), by Elias Owen and Willard Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drevnosti russkie (880-05 Kīev : S.V. Kulʹzhenko, 1899-1900., 1899), by Bohdan Ivanovych Khanenko and V. N. Khanenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The masculine cross and ancient sex worship. (Commonwealth Co., 1904), by Sha Rocco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phallism: a description of the worship of lingam-yoni in various parts of the world, and in different ages: (Priv. print., 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cross (Priv. print., 1934), by George Willard Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The high crosses of Castledermot and Durrow ... (The Academy, 1898), by Margaret Stokes and Royal Irish Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Kruzifixus in der bildenden Kunst (J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1908), by Gustav Schönermark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cross of Christ studies in the history of religion and the inner life of the church (Hodder and Stoughton, 1877), by Otto Zöckler and Maurice J. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of sepulchral cross-slabs, with reference to other emblems found thereon. (Bemrose, 1902), by K. E. Styan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnam, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Kreuz Christi : Religionshistorische und kirchlich-archäoloogische Untersuchegen : zugleich ein Beitrag zur Philosophie der Geschichte (C. Gertelsmann, 1875), ed. by Otto Zockler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il crocifisso nell'arte : Autore: C. Costantini (Libreria Salesiana, 1911), by Celso Costantini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il simbolo centrale della Divina commedia : la croce é l'aquila (Tipografia Giuntina, 1922), by Luigi Valli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cross; the report of a misgiving. (Revell, 1912), by G. A. Johnston Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur la croix ansée (Imprimerie Royale, 1846), by Raoul- Rochette (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cross, ancient and modern. (A.D.F. Randolph and company, 1888), by W. W. Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drevnostʹ russkish : kresty i obrazki = Antiquites russes : croix et images. (S.V. Kulʹzhenko, 1899), by B. I. Chanenko and V. N. Chanenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the cross: the pagan origin, and idolatrous adoption and worship, of the image. (Claxton, Remsen, & Heffelfinger, 1871), by Henry Dana Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle Croci monumentali chérano nelle vie di Bologna nel secolo XIII. Memoria. (tip. di G. Monti, 1863), by Giovanni Gozzadini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études de symbolique chrétienne. Rapports sur les crosses de Tiron ed de Saint-Amand de Rouen, faits, en 1856 et 1857, au Comité de la langue, de l'histoire et des arts de la France, section d'archéologie (Imprimerie impériale, 1851), by Auguste Bastard d'Estang and France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstgeschichte des Kreuzes; die bildiche Darstellung des erlösungstodes Christi Monogram, Kreuz & Crucifix (Fr. Hurter'schen Buchhandlung, 1870), by J. Stockbauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The arts in early England (J. Murray, 1903), by G. Baldwin Brown, Eric Hyde Lord Sexton, and Adam Blyth Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The masculine cross : or, A history of ancient and modern crosses and their connection with the mysteries of sex worship; also an account of the kindred phases of phallic faiths and practices. (Privately printed, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le crucifix dans l'histoire, dans l'art, dans l'ame des saints et dans notre vie (Société Saint-Augustin, Desclée, de Brouwer, 1905), by J. Hoppenot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Cruce cortonensi : dissertatio. (Ex Typographia Joannis Pauli Fantechi et Sociorum, 1751), by Filippo Venuti, Bernard de Montfaucon, and Nicolas Bailleul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justi LipsI De cruce libri tres (Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1606), by Justus Lipsius and Petrus van der Borcht (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ta ki, the svastika, and the cross in America (Press of MacCalla & Co., 1889), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masculine cross. (s.n.], 1891), by Hargrave Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cross in tradition, history, and art (G.P. Putnams Sons, 1898), by William Wood Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les symboles de la Croix. (Impr. F. Girard, 1872), by Abbé Boiteux (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cruz de Villa Vicosa : monografia histórica, redigida à vista de documentos inéditos existentes na Biblioteca Real da Ajuda (Typ. da Loteria da Santa Casa da Misericordia, 1908), by Rodrigo Vicente d' Almeida, Francisco Raimundo da Cunha Pedrosa, and Biblioteca da Ajuda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient crosses, and other antiquities in the east of Cornwall (W. Cornish;, 1872), by J. T. Blight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ruskin cross at Coniston (W. Holmes, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cross in ritual, architecture, and art (London : W. Andrews, [1896], 1896), by Geo. S. Tyack (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the cross : the pagan origin, and idolatrous adoption and worship, of the image (London : J. Nisbet, 1871., 1871), by Henry Dana Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cross in Ritual, Architecture and Art, by Geo. S. Tyack (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Masculine Cross: A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices (Gutenberg ebook)
• A letter concerning invocations of saints, and adoration of the cross writ ten years since, to John Evelyn of Depthford, esq. / by Dr. Barlow ... (London : Printed by John Macock for John Martyn ..., 1679), by Thomas Barlow (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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