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• Eschatology
• Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Antichrist -- Early works to 1800
• Future life -- Early works to 1800
• Immortality -- Early works to 1800
• Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800
• Purgatory -- Early works to 1800

• The Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather: An Edition of "Triparadisus" (Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, c1995), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)

• De Antichristo (13 books in 2 volumes, in Latin; Lyon: Sumptibus Societas Bibliopolarum, 1647), by Tomás Maluenda
  • Tomus Primus (Liber I-VI): page images at HathiTrust
  • Tomus Secundus (Liber VII-XIII): page images at HathiTrust

• The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)

• The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)
• The Salvation of All Men Strictly Examined (second edition; Boston: C. Ewer and T. Bedlingon, 1824), by Jonathan Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for W. Taylor and H. Clements, 1714), by Tobias Swinden (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (second edition, with supplement; London: T. Astley, 1727), by Tobias Swinden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; Amsterdam: Chez les Wetsteins et Smith, 1728), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; 1757), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vita Mirabile, et Dottrina Santa della Beata Caterina da Genova, Nella Quale si Contiene una Utile, e Cattolica Dimostratione, et Dichiaratione del Purgatorio; Con un Dialogo tra l'Anima, et il Corpo, Composto dalla Medesima (in Italian; Florence: Nella Stamperia de' Giunti, 1580), by Cattaneo Marabotto and Ettore Vernazza, contrib. by of Genoa Catherine (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise Concerning the Resurrection (1662), by George Bishop (HTML and page images at Earlham)
• On the Resurrection of the Flesh, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• A Dissertation on the Phaedon of Plato, or Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul; With Some General Observations Upon the Writings of That Philosopher; To Which is Annexed, a Psychology, or an Abstract Investigation of the Nature of the Soul, in Which the Opinions of All the Celebrated Metaphysicians on That Subject are Discussed (London: Printed for the author and sold by T. Evans, 1773), by Charles Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift Von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele (with William of Auvergne's De Immortalitate Animae; in Latin with German commentary; Münster: Aschendorff, 1897), by Dominicus Gundissalinus, ed. by Georg Bülow, contrib. by William of Auvergne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Johannis Pechami Quaestiones Tractantes de Anima (in Latin; Münster: Aschendorff, 1918), by John Peckham, ed. by Hieronymus Spettmann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man, by John Flavel (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)
• A Treatise on the Soul, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses (London: Printed for T. Rodd, 1823), by Porphyry, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Soul's Testimony, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Tertullian On the Testimony of the Soul and On the "Prescription" of Heretics (SPCK, 1914), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)

• Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathTrust
• Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by John C. Ager (HTML at newearth.org)

• An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Certainty of The Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of The Immortality of Souls of The Malice and Misery of The Devils and The Damned, and of The Blessedness of The Justified, Fully Evinced By The Unquestionable Histories of Apparitions, Operations, Witchcrafts, Voices &c. (title page misdated; London: Printed for T. Parkhurst and J. Salisbury, 1691), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)

• The City of God, by Saint Augustine of Hippo (HTML at CCEL)

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

• The Great Tribulation (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, ca. 1997), by David Chilton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• He Shall Have Dominion: A Postmillenial Eschatology (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1992), by Kenneth L. Gentry (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion (fourth printing; Tyler, TX: Dominion Press, 1994), by David Chilton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Dominion and Common Grace: The Biblical Basis of Progress (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1987), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• The Conflict of the Ages: The Mystery of Lawlessness, its Origin, Historical Development and Coming Defeat (New York: Publication Office "Our Hope", et al., c1933), by Arno Clemens Gaebelein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Millenialism and Social Theory (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1990), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• The Legacy of Hatred Continues: A Response to Hal Lindsey's The Road to Holocaust (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Gary DeMar and Peter J. Leithart (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• The Doctrine of the Last Things: Jewish and Christian (London: John Murray, 1908), by W. O. E. Oesterley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Dualism of Eternal Life: A Revolution in Eschatology (Rochester, NY: The author, c1916), by Stephen Speers Craig
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The End of Time: The First of the Rev. Dr. Watts His Discourses on the World to Come, Selected and Published for the More Easy Dispersing it, Into Private Families (Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1740), by Isaac Watts (page images at uncg.edu)
• Concerning the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Being Gathered to Him (2 Thess. 2:1): A Lutheran Response to the "Left Behind" Series (St. Louis, MO: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, 2004), by Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Commission on Theology and Church Relations (PDF at lcms.org)
• 101 Signs of Christ's Coming: X-Raying Today's Crisis (third edition; Joliet, IL: C. O. Benham, c1937), by Charles O. Benham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Belief of the First Three Centuries Concerning Christ's Mission to the Underworld (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co.; et al., 1854), by Frederic Huidekoper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Writings, by Ellen G. White (HTML at ellenwhiteexposed.com)
• The Last Judgment (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Chadwick edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Whitehead edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
• The Second Coming of the Lord, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at Swedenborg Digital Library)
• The Spirits in Prison, and Other Studies on the Life After Death (London: Wm. Isbister Limited, 1884), by E. H. Plumptre
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Separated Soul in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (dissertation published as Catholic University of America Philosophical Series v55; Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1940), by Victor Edmund Sleva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead, Examined in the Light of Scripture, and of Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by Charles H. H. Wright (multiple formats at Google)
• La Escatologia Musulmana en la Divina Comedia (in Spanish; Madrid: E. Maestre, 1919), by Miguel Asín Palacios, contrib. by Julián Ribera
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.