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• A Discourse Proving Weak Grace Victorious (London: Religious Tract Society, 1838), by Stephen Charnock (page images at Google)

• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)
• Disputationes Camaldulenses (Latin manuscript facsimile with pages in reverse order; ca. 1474), by Cristoforo Landino (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Cristiano de Estos Tiempos, Confundido por los Primeros Cristianos (6th impression, 2 volumes, in Spanish; Madrid: Por M. Escribano, 1778), by Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, trans. by Francisco Mariano Nipho
  • Book 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Book 2: multiple formats at Google
• Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage; London: Printed by T. R. for L. Lloyd, 1661), contrib. by Samuel Pordage and John Pordage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• This Was Given to Major Generall Harrison and the Rest (London: Printed for T. Simmons, 1660), by Margaret Fell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• 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
• The Wells of Salvation Opened (London: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for R. Smith, 1655), by William Spurstowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Several Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Bear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed for J. Rothwell, 1654), by Christopher Love (multiple formats at Google)
• The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence: In Severall Sermons, Tending to Direct Men How to Hear with Zeal, to Pray With Importunity (London: Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for J. Rothwell, 1653), by Christopher Love (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Buds and Blossoms of Piety, With Some Fruit of the Spirit of Love, and Directions to the Divine Wisdom (London: L. Hinde, 1766), by Benjamin Antrobus (HTML and page images at Earlham)
• The Epistles of Jacob Behmen (London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1649), by Jakob Böhme, trans. by John Ellistone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ladies' Calling (second impression; 2 parts in 1 volume; Oxford: At the Theatre, 1673), by Richard Allestree
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, That He May Please God (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1842), by Lewis Bayly (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Disce Vivere: Learn to Live (reprinted from a 1634 edition for W. Pickering, 1848), by Christopher Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, and in English The Manual of the Christian Knight (London: Methuen and Co., 1905), by Desiderius Erasmus (multiple formats at libertyfund.org)
• The Instructions of Commodianus, by Commodianus (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Life of God in the Soul of Man, by Henry Scougal (multiple formats at CCEL)
• On Cleaving to God (includes Latin text in RTF form), trans. by John Richards, contrib. by Saint Albertus Magnus (multiple formats at CCEL)
• On Union with God, contrib. by Saint Albertus Magnus and P. J. Berthier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend, by Thomas Browne, ed. by J. W. Willis Bund
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, by Philip Doddridge (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Theologia Germanica, trans. by Susanna Winkworth (multiple formats with comentary at CCEL)
• A Treatise of the Vocations, or Callings of Mem With the Sorts and Kindes of Them, and the Right Use Thereof (detached from Perkins' Works; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge, 1605), by William Perkins, contrib. by Thomas Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religio Medici; Its Sequel, Christian Morals (both works, presented with similar passages from Cowper; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), by Thomas Browne, ed. by John Peace, contrib. by William Cowper
  • 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)
• The Instructor (Paedagogus), by Clement of Alexandria (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, by John Owen
  • HTML at reformed.org
  • multiple formats at CCEL
• On Contempt for the World, by Eucherius of Lyon, trans. by Henry Vaughan (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian, trans. by Edgar C. S. Gibson (HTML with commentary at osb.org)

• An Instruction to Judges and Lawyers (London: Printed for T. Simmons, ca. 1657), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christian Morals (London: Rivingtons, 1863), by Thomas Browne (searchable page images at Google)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend, by Thomas Browne, ed. by J. W. Willis Bund
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Religio Medici; Its Sequel, Christian Morals (both works, presented with similar passages from Cowper; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), by Thomas Browne, ed. by John Peace, contrib. by William Cowper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML at Bartleby

• Disce Vivere: Learn to Live (reprinted from a 1634 edition for W. Pickering, 1848), by Christopher Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil, 1705), by Damaris Masham (Gutenberg text)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (London: W. Pickering 1847), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (with updated text; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1876), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• An Essay on the Proper Lessons, Appointed by the Liturgy of the Church of England, to be Read on Sundays and Chief Festivals Throughout the Year, As They Are Directed by Her Table of Proper Lessons (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochhan, 1818), by William Wogan, contrib. by James Gatliff
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • annotated transcription of Gatliff's life of the author in v1: multiple formats in the UK

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