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  A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.
  Date of publication:
  1535
  

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  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae. English. aut ; Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.
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  The traditional attribution to Thomas a ̀Kempis is disputed. An English translation, by Richard Whitford, of: Imitatio Christi. Imprint from STC. Includes an English translation, by Richard Whitford, of: Bernard, Saint. ...
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  A booke of Christian exercise appertaining to resolution, that is, shewing how that we should resolve our selves to become Christians indeed: by R.P. Perused, and accompanied now with a treatise tending to pacification: by Edm. Bunny.
  Date of publication:
  1584
  

  Author(s):

  Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. ; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. Treatise tending to pacification. ; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.
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  R.P. = Robert Parsons. A Protestant adaptation, by Edmund Bunny, of: Parsons, Robert. The first booke of the Christian exercise. Parsons' work was revised and enlarged in 1585 as: A Christian directory. Includes separate ...
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  A briefe answer, vnto those idle and friuolous quarrels of R.P. against the late edition of the Resolution: by Edmund Bunny. Whereunto are prefixed the booke of Resolution, and the treatise of pacification, perused and noted in the margent on all such places as are misliked of R.P. shewing in what section of this answer following, those places are handled
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

  Author(s):

  Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.
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  A reply to: Parsons, Robert. The first booke of the Christian exercise. Intended to be issued with: A booke of Christian exercise. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A briefe conference betwixt mans frailtie and faith wherein is declared the true vse, and comfort of those blessings pronounced by Christ in the fifth of Matthew, that euery Christian man and woman ought to make and take hold of in their seuerall tentations and conflicts: laide downe in this plaine order of dialogue, to helpe, if it please God, the conceit and feeling of the simplest. By Geruase Babington.
  Date of publication:
  1584
  

  Author(s):

  Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.
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  Running title reads: A conference betwixt mans frailtie and faith. "Finis" on p. 132; p. 133 caption title reads: A prayer for a familie in the morning. Reproduction of the original in the Library of Congress.
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  A bryefe and plaine declaracion of certayne sente[n]ces in this litle boke folowing to satisfie the consciences of them that haue iudged me therby to be a fauourer of the Anabaptistes.
  Date of publication:
  1547
  

  Author(s):

  I. B., fl. 1547. ; Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed author. ; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555, attributed author.
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  Another edition of STC 1034.7: A brife and faythfull declaration of the true fayth of Christ. Title pages of other editions read "Per me I.B."; sometimes attributed to John Bale or John Bradford. Imprint from STC. Formerly ...
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  A christal glasse for christian vvomen containing, a most excellent discourse, of the godly life and Christian death of Mistresse Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton vpon Trent, in Staffordshire the 14. day of December. 1590. With a most heauenly confession of the Christian faith, which shee made a little before her departure: as also a wonderfull combate betwixt Sathan and her soule: worthie to be imprinted in letters of golde, and are to be engrauen in the tables of euery Christian heart. Set downe word for word, as she spake it, as neere as could be gathered: by Phillip Stubbes Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1592
  

  Author(s):

  Stubbes, Phillip.
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  Actual printer's name from STC. Signatures: A-C⁴. Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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  A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first vvherof apperteining to resolution, is only conteined in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv againe vvith many corrections, and additions by th'authour him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edm. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with two tables, and a preface to the reader, which is necessarie to be reade.
  Date of publication:
  1585
  

  Author(s):

  Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.
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  Preface signed: R.P., i.e. Robert Parsons. An enlarged version of his "The first booke of the Christian exercise", in response to the Protestant adaptation by Edmund Bunny entitled "A booke of Christian exercise". ...
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  A Christmas bankette garnyshed with many pleasaunt and deynty disshes, newely prepared by Theodore Basille
  Date of publication:
  1542
  

  Author(s):

  Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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  Theodore Basille = Thomas Becon. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A-G. In this edition, p. E1r has catchword: thinges. reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A compe[n]dius [and] a moche fruytefull treatyse of well liuynge co[n]taynyng the hole su[m]me and effect of al vertue. Wrytten by S. Bernard [and] translated by Thomas Paynell.
  Date of publication:
  1545
  

  Author(s):

  Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. ; Paynell, Thomas.
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  A translation, by Thomas Paynell, of: Saint Bernard. Modus bene vivendi. "Modus bene vivendi" attributed to Pseudo-Bernardus by GW. Imprint from colophon; publication date suggested by STC. At foot of title page: Cum ...
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  A compendious and a very fruteful treatyse, teachynge the waye of dyenge well written to a frende, by the flowre of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete Londoner, late deceassed, on whose soule Iesu haue mercy.
  Date of publication:
  1534
  

  Author(s):

  Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.
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  Printer's name and publication date from colophon. Signatures: A-E [F]² ; numerous errors in foliation. Running title reads: To dye vvell. The last leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified
  Date of publication:
  1596
  

  Author(s):

  Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
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  "To the reader" signed: William Perkins. Running title reads: Of the right knowledge of Christ crucified. The last leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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  A deuoute epystle of treaty for them that ben tymorouse and fearefull in conscience whiche treatyse yf yt be well red ouer [and] folowyd wyll brynge the reders out of all scrupulosite of conscience and seruyle feare, [and] brynge them to the holy feare and loue of almyghty God. Compyled by a brother of Syon (called wyllyam Bonde a Bacheler of Diuinitie) on whose soule Jesu haue mercy... .
  Date of publication:
  1534
  

  Author(s):

  Bonde, William, fl. 1526-27.
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  Printer's name from colophon; place and date of publication suggested by STC. A revised edition, divided into chapters, of "The directory of conscience", first published in 1527. This state has the preamble on the title ...
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  A direction to the waters of lyfe Come and beholde, how Christ shineth before the Law, in the Law, and in the Prophetes: and withall the iudgements of God vpon all nations for the neglect of his holy worde, wherein they myght haue seene the same: both which are layde before your eyes in this litle discourse, by Roger Cotton draper.
  Date of publication:
  1590
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, Roger.
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  Printer's name from STC. [par.]4 and the last leaf are blank. Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-N⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A display of dutie dect vvith sage sayings, pythie sentences, and proper similies: pleasant to reade, delightfull to heare, and profitable to practise, By. L. Wright.
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

  Author(s):

  Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.
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  Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A dreame of the diuell and Diues most terrible and fearefull to the seruantes of Sathan, but right comfortable and acceptable to the children of God : plainely described by way of dialogue, verie necessarie to be read aduisedly, and heard attentiuelie, both of rulers and inferiours, rich, and poore, younge and olde, wise and simple, that wish rather to dwel in heauen, then in hell.
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

  Author(s):

  Lupton, Thomas.
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  Dedication signed: Thomas Lupton. Added imprint at colophon. Signatures: A-G⁸. Title within ornamental border. Marginal notes. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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  A godly boke wherein is contayned certayne fruitefull, godlye, and necessarye rules, to bee exercised [et] put in practise by all Christes souldiers lyuynge in the campe of this worlde
  Date of publication:
  1561
  

  Author(s):

  Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Enchiridion militis Christiani. ; Artour, Thomas. ; Gough, John, fl. 1561-1570.
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  A paraphrastic abridgment, possibly by Thomas Artour, of the revised edition of: Erasmus, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani. Sometimes attributed to John Gough, but in fact only the prologue is by him. Printer's ...
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  A goodly treatise of faith, hope, and charite necessary for all Christe[n] me[n] to know and to exercyse themselues therein tra[n]slated into englyshe
  Date of publication:
  1537
  

  Author(s):

  Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.
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  A translation, by Miles Coverdale, of: Een profitelic en troostelic boexken. With Arabic date 1537 in woodcut border's lower sill. Folio lxxxiii misnumbered lxxiii. Formerly STC 24218. Identified as STC 24218 on UMI ...
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  A little pamphlet entituled the ladder of paradise Very worthy and needful to be read of every Christian that is willing to tread the steps which lead to heauen.
  Date of publication:
  1580
  

  Author(s):

  Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name. ; Guigo II, d. 1188, attributed name. ; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.
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  "From the Scala Paradisi, now attributed to Guigo II, General of the Carthusians."--STC. Printer's name and publication date conjectured by STC. Translator's preface signed: T.W. Running title reads: The ladder to paradise. ...
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  A mirror for the multitude, or Glasse Wherein maie be seene, the violence, the error, the weaknesse, and rash consent, of the multitude, and the daungerous resolution of such, as without regard of the truth, endeaour to sinne and ioyne themselues with the multitude: with a necessary conclusion, that it is not the name, or title of a protestant, christian, or catholicke, but the true imitation of Christ, that maketh a Christian. By I.N.
  Date of publication:
  1586
  

  Author(s):

  Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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  I.N. = John Norden. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.
  Date of publication:
  1593
  

  Author(s):

  Stubbes, Phillip.
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  Signatures: A-O (-A1, blank?). Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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