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• The Character and Work of a Spiritual Watchman Decribed: A Sermon, Delivered at Hinesburgh, February 23, 1791 at the Ordination of the Rev. Reuben Parmerlee (Litchfield, CT: Printed by Collier and Buel., ca. 1792), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1891), by J. B. Lightfoot (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• The Constitution of the Church of England, Scriptural and Apostolical: A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Manchester, on Sunday the 13th of January, 1856 (1856), by E. Dudley Jackson (PDF transcription with embedded commentary at whtech.com)
• A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Codman to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, Dec. 7, 1808 (Boston: J. Belcher, printer, 1808), by William Ellery Channing (multiple formats at Google)
• A Sermon, Preached in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, October 11, 1865, Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the Occasion of the Consecration of the Reverend Charles Todd Quintard, M.D., as Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee (Philadelphia: C. T. Adams, 1865), by William Bacon Stevens (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

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

• When the World is on Fire, and Other Evangelistic Messages (c1962), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Come Unto Me (c1945), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• The Saviour's Invitation, and Other Evangelistic Sermons (c1944), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• The Gospel of Salvation: Evangelistic Addresses (c1941), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• God's Answer to Man's Sin (c1940), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Ye Must Be Born Again, and Other Sermons (c1939), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Helps to a Life of Holiness and Usefulness: or, Revival Miscellanies, by James Caughey, ed. by R. W. Allen and Daniel Wise (page images at MOA)
• If Christ Had Not Come, and Other Sermons, by Jarrette E. Aycock (PDF at nnu.edu)
• Paul Rader's Sermons (New York: The Book Stall, 1916), by Paul Rader
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Sermons on Various Subjects (1835), by Charles G. Finney (HTML at gospeltruth.net)
• The Way to God and How to Find It (Chicago et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1884), by Dwight Lyman Moody (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Revival Sermons (ca. 1900), by C. W. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)

• The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea: A Remarkable Relation of Certain Pirates Brought Unto a Tragical and Untimely End; Some Conferences With Them, After Their Condemnation; Their Behaviour at Their Execution; and a Sermon Preached on that Occasion (Boston: Printed by T. Fleet for N. Belknap, 1726), by Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into, Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• The Bible View of Slavery (1861 sermon by Raphall, with contemporary rebuttals by Einhorn and Heilprin), by Morris J. Raphall, contrib. by David Einhorn and Michael Heilprin (illustrated HTML at jewish-history.com)
• Bible View of Slavery: A Discourse, Delivered at the Jewish Synagogue "Bnai Jeshurum", New York, on the Day of the National Fast, Jan. 4, 1861 (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1861), by Morris J. Raphall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• God our Refuge and Strength in This War: A Discourse Before the Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (Richmond: W. Hargrave White, 1861), by T. V. Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• God in the War: A Sermon Delivered Before the Legislature of Georgia, in the Capitol at Milledgeville, on Friday, November 15, 1861, Being a Day Set Apart for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, by His Excellency the President of the Confederate States (Milledgeville: Boughton, Nisbet and Barnes, 1861), by Henry H. Tucker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Vain is the Help of Man: A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 15, 1864, Being the Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, Appointed by the Governor of the State of Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1864), by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Comfort in Tribulation: An Address Delivered in the Reformed Dutch Church, Stapleton, S.I., September 26th, 1861, a Day Kept as a National Fast, by Appointment of the President of the United States (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1861), by Thomas H. Skinner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• An Eulogy on George Washington, Late Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Who Died December 14, 1799: Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at the Request of Their Committee (second editio; Boston: Manning and Loring, ca. 1800), by George Richards Minot (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the Late General George Washington, Commander in Chief of All the Armies of the United States of America (with Washington's farewell address; Newburyport, MA: E. M. Blunt, 1800), by Levi Frisbie, contrib. by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Important Concerns of Ministers, and the People of Their Charge, at the Day of judgment: Illustrated in a Sermon, Delivered at Rutland, Orange Society, August 22d, 1797, at the Interment of the Rev. Abraham Carpenter, Their Worthy Pastor (1798), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Model Pastor: The Life and Character of the Rev. Elisha Yale, D.D., Late of Kingsboro', Drawn Mostly From His Own Diary and Correspondence, Together With the Discourse Preached at His Funeral, January 13, 1853 (Albany: J. Munsell, 1854), by Jeremiah Wood
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Rev. John Todd Edgar, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee (Nashville: J. T. S. Fall, 1860), by First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Tenn.), contrib. by Joseph Bardwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sermon, Delivered at Londonderry East-Parish, May 5, 1816, Occasioned by the Death of John Pinkerton, Esq. (Concord, NH: Printed by G. Hough, 1816), by Edward L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The State of the Departed (New York: Thomas N. Stanford, 1857), by John Henry Hobart (multiple formats at Google)
• Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D. Together with the Sermon, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Priestly Usurpation: Its Cause and Consequences (London: Hathcard et al., 1845), by F. Close (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women Priests? (London: Church Literature Association, 1972), by E. L. Mascall (HTML with commentary at womenpriests.org)

• Searching the Scriptures: Women's Ordination and the Call to Biblical Fidelity (c1995), by Samuel Koranteng-Pipim (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• An Easie and Safe Method for Curing The King's Evil; With Several Observations of Diet, Air, &c. Which May Be of Use and Service to People Afflicted With That Distemper (10th edition; London: A. Collins, 1716), by William Vickers (page images at NIH)

• The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by Charles D. Benn (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by Charles D. Benn (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Character of a Priest (credited on title page to "Philanthropos"; commonly attributed to Carlile; London: R. Carlile, 1821), by Richard Carlile (Gutenberg text)

• The Woman and the Priest (London: J. Cape, c1922), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Mary G. Steegmann (Gutenberg text)

• The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)
• The Prophet Priest: Four Addresses Delivered at Mildmay Conference, 1895 (London: J. G. Wheeler, ca. 1895), by Andrew Murray, contrib. by J. F. Morton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Royal Priesthood: A Plea for the Restoration of the Priesthood of All Believers in the Churches of God (c1956), by W. Carl Ketcherside (Javascript-dependent HTML at unity-in-diversity.org)