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• Idols and images -- Worship
• Idols and images -- Early works to 1800
• Worship -- Early works to 1800

• Iconoclasm -- Early works to 1800
• Idols and images -- Worship -- England -- Early works to 1800

• Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. Gurnay ... (London : Printed by E.M. for J. Rothwell ..., 1661), by Edmund Gurnay (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of idolatry (Oxford [i.e. London] : Printed by Henry Hall ..., 1646), by Henry Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Charlewood, dwelling in Barbican, An. 1587), by John Ryckes, Adrian Savorine, Anthony Munday, and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love. ([Imprynted at London : In the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde, The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC. [and] xxv. [1525] The vij. daye of October]), by John Ryckes and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Several conferences between a Romish priest, a fanatick chaplain, and a divine of the Church of England concerning the idolatry of the Church of Rome, being a full answer to the late dialogues of T.G. (London : Printed by M.W. for H. Mortlock ..., 1679), by Edward Stillingfleet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A. ([Amsterdam : Successors of G. Thorp], Printed. 1624), by Henry Ainsworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Short information, but agreeable unto Scripture: of idol-images. ([London? : S.n.], M.D.C.XX. [1620]), by Abraham Scultetus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A rod discovered, found, and set forth to whip the idolaters till they leave off their idolatry (which yet remains in the rulers of England, their ministers, and the people who follow thier wayes) which doth consist in the houses of high places, falsly called churches; the two universities, Cambridge and Oxford, (and their ministers, which are made by man, and not of God) and their ministers maintenance (not the ministers of Christs) which is portions of lands, tythes, offrings, oblations, obventions, and great houses for a certain dwelling place on the earth, and forms of oathes, all which is the fruit of idolaters, and the abomination of the heathen. So likewise here is described the true magistrate and his work; and the way (for he who is not) to become such a one; and likewise, the way for all people to come out of their idolatry, vo worship the true God in spirit and truth. Written by me Henry Clark. Unto which is prefixed the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Laodiceans. (London : printed for the author, the sixth month, in the year 1657), by Henry Clark (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Altar-worship, or Bowing to the communion table considered as to the novelty vanity iniquity malignity charged upon it. In an antithesis to the determination of Dr. Eleazar Duncon, lately translated, and sent into the world in a Romish dress, with a cross in the front and fine. By Z. Crofton Presbyter, but proved enemy to all fanaticks. (London : printed for J.R. at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheapside, 1661), by Zachary Crofton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proclamations. 1560-09-19 (Imprinted at London : In Povvles Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, [1560]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Einigerlei Bild. English ([London : T. Godfray for W. Marshall, 1535?]), by Martin Bucer, Jacobus Bedrotus, and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ymage of love (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Charlewood, dwelling in Barbican, An. 1587), by John Ryckes, Adrian Savorine, Anthony Munday, and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love. ([Imprynted at London : In the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde, The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC. [and] xxv. [1525] The vij. daye of October]), by John Ryckes and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Book of Idols, by -819? Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken (New York: Standard Publishing House, c1883), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• False Gods: or, The Idol Worship of the World (Philadelphia et al.: Hubbard Bros., ca. 1881), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gods and Devils of Mankind (c1897), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις), by Saint John of Damascus, trans. by Mary H. Allies (Gutenberg ebook)
• Of idolatry a discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of, its distinction from superstition, its notion, cause, commencement, and progress, its practice charged on Gentiles, Jews, Mahometans, Gnosticks, Manichees Arians, Socinians, Romanists : as also, of the means which God hath vouchsafed towards the cure of it by the Shechinah of His Son / by Tho. Tenison ... (London : Printed for Francis Tyton ..., 1678), by Thomas Tenison (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief answer to the many calumnies of Dr. Henry More, in his pretended Antidote against idolatry. Shewing that no prudent person can, upon any rational ground, be deterr'd from returning to the communion of St. Peter's chair, by any of the doctors best and strongest evidences to the contrary. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1672), by John Walton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the first sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrine and practices of the Church of Rome. (London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell ..., 1687), by John Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the second sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the cross. (London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell ..., 1687), by John Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great is Diana of the Ephesians, or, The original of idolatry together with the politick institution of the gentiles sacrifices. (London : [s.n.], 1680), by Charles Blount (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exposition of the seven epistles to the seven churches together with a brief discourse of idolatry, with application to the Church of Rome / by Henry More ... (London : Printed by James Flesher, 1669), by Henry More (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Concerning images and idolatry (Oxford printed : [s.n.], 1689), by R. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To all those that vvorship in temples made vvith hands, but more especially to them of Pauls, as a vvarning to them to repent.: ([London : s.n., 1663]), by D. W. (Dorothy White) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse concerning the worship of images preached before the University of Oxford, on the 24th of May, 1686 / by George Tullie Sub-Dean of Tork, &c for which he was suspended. (London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell ..., 1689), by George Tullie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse concerning the nature of idolatry in which a late author's true and onely notion of idolatry is considered and confuted. (London : Printed for William Rogers ..., 1688), by William Wake (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Einigerle Bild. English ([S.l.] : Printed for W. Marshall, [1535]), by Martin Bucer, Jacobus Bedrotus, and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A reply to the false reasoning in the "Age of reason." To which are added, some thoughts on idolatry; on the devil; and the origin of moral evil; on educating young men for the Gospel ministry; and on what is "the word of God." All which refer, more or less, to opinions advanced in Thomas Paine's "Investigation of true and fabulous theology." / By a layman. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for the author, and sold by the principal booksellers., 1796), by Miers Fisher (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Popish idolatry: a discourse delivered in the chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, New-England, May 8. 1765. At the lecture founded by the Honorable Paul Dudley, Esquire. / By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Printed by R. & S. Draper, Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet., MDCCLXV. [1765]), by Jonathan Mayhew (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The absurdity and idolatry of host-worship proved, by shewing how it answers what is said in scripture and the writtings of the fathers, to shew the folly and idolatry committed in the worship of heathen deities : also a full answer to all those pleas by which papists would wipe off the charge of idolatry, and an appendix against transubstantiation, with some reflexions on a late popish book called The guide in controversies / by Daniel Whitby ... (London : Printed for H. Brome ... R. Bentley ... M. Magnes ..., 1679), by Daniel Whitby (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letters to Children, by E. C. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)

• De historia SS. imaginum et picturarum, pro vero earum usu contra abusus, libri quatuor / (Lovanii : Typis Academicis, MDCCLXXI [1771]), by Johannes Molanus, Jean Noël Paquot, and Belgium) Typi Academici (Louvain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise and fall of the heresy of iconoclasts; or, Image-breakers : Being a brief relation of the lives and deaths of those emperors of the East, who first set it up and maintain'd it, or zealously oppos'd and finally crush'd it. From the year 717 to 867. (London : Printed for Tho. Meighan, 1731), by Robert Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. John Damascene on holy images; followed by three sermons on the Assumption. (London : T. Baker, 1898), by Saint John of Damascus, trans. by Mary H. Allies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La querlle des images (VIIIe-IXe siècles) (Paris, Librairie Bloud & cie, 1904), by Louis Bréhier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Georgīĭ Kipri︠a︡nin i Īoann Īerusalimli︠a︡nin, dva maloizvi︠e︡stnykh bort︠s︡a za pravoslavīe v VIII vi︠e︡ki︠e︡. (S.-Peterburg : Tip. I.N. Skorokhodova, 1901), by B. M. Melīoranskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• St. John Damascene on holy images (pros tous diavallontas tas hagias eikonas) ; followed by three sermons on the Assumption (koimēsis) / (London : Thomas Baker, 1898), by Saint John of Damascus and of Damascus John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : for the speedy demolishing of all organs, images, and all manner of superstitious monuments in all cathedrall parish-churches and chappels, throughout the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, the better to accomplish the blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and things illegal in the worship of God. (London : Printed for John Wright, 1644), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cultu imaginum libellus e codice Arabico nunc primum editus, latine versus, illustratus. (1897), by bp. of Harrān Theōdūrus Abū Qurra and J. P. Arendzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Bilderstreit, ein Kampf der griechischen Kirche um ihre Eigenart und um ihre Freiheit / (Gotha : Friedrich Andreas Berthes, 1890), by Karl Schwarzlose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dogmaticheskoe znachenīe Sedʹmago Vselenskago Sobora : nauchno-istoricheskoe izsli︠e︡dovanīe vazhnosti i neobkhodimosti ikonopochitanīi︠a︡, po povodu zabluzhdenīi︠a︡ g. Pashkova i ego edinomyshlennikov / (Karlsruė : V Pridvornoĭ Tip. V. Gaspera, 1884), by Gr Ostroumov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libri Carolini, sive, Caroli Magni Capitulare de imaginibus / (Hannoverae : Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1924), by Bishop of Orléans Theodulf, Emperor Charlemagne, and Beda Bastgen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
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• An appendix unto the homily against images in churches, by Edm: Gurnay Bachelour in Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Harpley in Norfolk (London : printed by A.N. for J. Rothwel at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1641), by Edmund Gurnay (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent. (London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1599), by Richard Linche and Vincenzo Cartari (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Idolatry declared against by a servant of the Living God, a sufferer for the testimony of His Name in the common goal at Winchester, Humphry Smith. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., 1658), by Humphrey Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An aunsvvere to the Treatise of the crosse wherin ye shal see by the plaine and vndoubted word of God, the vanities of men disproued: by the true and godly fathers of the Church, the dreames and dotages of other controlled: and by lavvfull counsels, conspiracies ouerthrowen. Reade and regarde. (Imprinted at London : By Henry Denham, for Lucas Harryson, Anno 1565), by James Calfhill (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A discourse of the use of images in relation to the Church of England and the Church of Rome in vindication of Nubes testium against a pamphlet entitled The antiquity of the Protestant religion concerning images, directed against some leaves of that collection. (London : Printed by Henry Hills ..., 1687), by John Gother (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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