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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)

Filed under: Soul -- Early works to 1800

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
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Johannis Pechami Quaestiones Tractantes de Anima (in Latin; Münster: Aschendorff, 1918), by John Peckham, ed. by Hieronymus Spettmann
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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)

Filed under: Transmigration -- Early works to 1800

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)

Filed under: Soul -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800

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)

Filed under: Future life -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800

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

Filed under: Immortality -- Early works to 1800

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
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Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)

Filed under: Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800

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

Filed under: Holy Spirit -- Early works to 1800

Theological and Dogmatic Works (The Fathers of the Church, A New Translation, v44; Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1963), by Saint Ambrose, trans. by Roy J. Deferrari (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)
Her Uncommon Discoveries of the Divine Perfections and Glory; and of the Excellency of Christ (claimed to be an annotated direct transcription from her manuscript, ca. 1742; from a memoir of her husband published 1830), by Sarah Edwards, ed. by Sereno Edwards Dwight (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)

Filed under: Trinity -- Early works to 1800

Against Praxeas, by Tertullian, trans. by Ernest Evans (HTML at tertullian.org)
Against Praxeas, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, by John Owen (multiple formats at CCEL)

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