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Pensées ingenieuse [sic]: or, a collection of the bright sayings, sublime thoughts, and witty sentences, of the most celebrated Fathers of the church. ... Translated from the French of the ingenious Bohours: ...
Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702.Date: 1736
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An answer to An essay on spirit: wherein it is shewn, that the author's interpretation of Scripture is imperfect: and his representation of the opinions of the antient Fathers, unfair. By Thomas Knowles.
Knowles, Thomas, 1723-1802.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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A supplement to The moderator between an infidel and an apostate; being a dissertation on Daniel's weeks, from the authority of the Fathers. By Thomas Woolston, Sometime Fellow of Sidney College in Cambridge.
Woolston, Thomas, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]
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The treasure of vowed chastity in secular persons. Also the widdowes glasse. VVritten by the RR. Fathers Leonard Lessius, and Fuluius Androtius, both of the Society of Iesus. Translated into English by I.W. P.
Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623Date: 1621
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A select collection of catholick sermons, preach'd before their Majesties King James II. Mary Queen-Consort, Catherine Queen-Dowager, &c. ... . By the Reverend Fathers Ayray, Betham, Bix, Codrington, Ellis, Giffard, Godden, Levison, Scarisbrike.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLI. [1741]
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Instruction of youth in Christian piety. Taken out of the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Fathers. From the French of Charles Gobinet , D. D. ... . The fifth edition, Revised and corrected by the Rev. B. Macmahan.
Gobinet, Charles, 1614-1690.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]
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The bishop of Bangor's doctrine prov'd to be sound and orthodox, from the writings of the Latin and Greek Fathers: being a Further Confutation of his Double-Dealing and Malicious Opposers. In Three Chapters. By Philalethes.
Philalethes.Date: [1718]
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A sermon preach'd in Lambeth-Chapel, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God Henry Lord Bishop of Hereford, and Richard Lord Bishop of St. David's. On Sunday, February 2, 1723. By Samuel Croxall.
Croxall, Samuel, 1688 or 1689-1752.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]
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The independency of the Church upon the state, as to its pure spiritual powers: proved from the Holy Scriptures, and the writings of the Primitive Fathers. With answers to the most material objections. By Thomas Brett, LL. D.
Brett, Thomas, 1667-1744.Date: 1717
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A supplement to The moderator between an infidel and an apostate: being a dissertation on Daniel's weeks, from the authority of the Fathers. The second edition. By Thomas Woolston, B. D. sometime Fellow of Sidney College in Cambridge.
Woolston, Thomas, 1670-1733.Date: 1729
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A true history of several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot, in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers. By Captain Walter Scot,
Scot, Walter, approximately 1614-approximately 1694.Date: 1776
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Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ : together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.
Mayhew, R. (Richard)Date: Anno 1674
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A treatise of the three evils of the last times: I. The sword, II. The pestilence, III. The famine; and of their natural and moral causes. As also of the ensuing coming of Antichrist; According to the Notion of the Ancient Fathers.
Hildrop, John, 1682-1756.Date: 1711
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Observations on the public convenants, betwixt God and the church. A discourse. By Archibald Mason, Minister of the Gospel at Wishawtown. From Jeremiah xi. 10. The House of Israel, and the House of Judah, Have Broken My Covenant, Which I made with their Fathers.
Mason, Archibald.Date: 1799
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An argument in defence of passive obedience, in Opposition to all Manner of Tenets Advanc'd by several Pretended Fathers of the Church, And other Eminent Writers on the Side of Resistance to the Supreme Powers. By White Kennet, D. D. And Dean of Peterborough.
Kennett, White, 1660-1728.Date: 1711
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A collection of private devotions, in the practice of the ancient church, called the Hours of prayer. Taken out of the Holy Scriptures, the Ancient Fathers, and the Divine Service of our Church. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John, late Lord Bishop of Durham.
Cosin, John, 1594-1672.Date: M.DCC.XIX. [1719]
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A letter in defence of Dr. Middleton: being An argument Proving, From the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New testament, That Miraculous Powers were never truly wrought but by Persons divinely inspired; and, consequently, that the pretended Miracles of the Fathers are false and forged.
Yate, Richard.Date: M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]
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Memoirs of Nicholas Gabrini de Rienzi; who from a low and despicable situation, rais'd himself to sovereign authority in Rome, in the fourteenth century; ... Collected from contemporary authors and the best historians during that period. From the French of the Reverend Fathers Brumoy and Cerceau.
Du Cerceau, père (Jean-Antoine), 1670-1730.Date: [1740?]
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The last words and confession of Marion Dalgliesh, who was execute at Edinburgh October 6th. 1703. for murdering her own child. Her Age is 21 Years, her Fathers Name is William Dalgliesh, Tennent to Rickerton-Craige, and her self late Servitrix to the Lady Reidhall.
Dalgliesh, Marion, -1703.Date: 1703?]
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Pastoral instructions upon the Creed, Commandments, Sacraments, Lord's Prayer, &c. Collected from the Holy Scriptures, Councils, Fathers, and Approv'd Writers in God's Church: with prayers Conformable thereunto. For the Use of such as want to be instructed in the Principles and Duties of Christian Religion.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXIII. [1713]
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The instruction of youth in Christian piety. Taken out of the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Fathers; with a very profitable treatise for meditation, or mental prayer. By Charles Gobinet, Doctor of Divinity, of the House and Society of Sorbon, Principal of the College of Plessis-Sorbon. ...
Gobinet, Charles, 1614-1690.Date: 1741
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A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Quakers refuse to swear: And those Confirmed by Numerous Testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both Fathers, Doctors and Martyrs. Presented to the King and great-council of England, assembled in parliament.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: in the Year; 1713
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The spirit of infidelity, detected: in answer to a scandalous pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of ecclesiasticks of all sects, and ages, as to the doctrines of morality; And more particularly the Spirit of the Ancient Fathers of the Church, Examined: By Mons. Barbeyrac. In which the fathers are vindicated, the gross Falshoods of that Writer Exposed, and his innumerable Inconsistences, as well as those of the Independent Whig his Infidel Prefacer, are fully Lay'd open. By a believer.
Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.Date: 1723
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A discourse, shewing that the expositions which the Ante-Nicene Fathers have given of the texts alleged against the Reverend Dr Clarke by a learned layman, are more agreeable to the interpretations of Dr Clarke, than to the interpretations of that learned layman. By a Clergyman in the Country.
Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.Date: [1714]
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The nature of man : A learned and usefull tract written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the philosopher; sometime Bishop of a city in Phœnicia, and one of the most ancient Fathers of the Church. Englished, and divided into sections, with briefs of their principall contents: by Geo: Wither.
Nemesius, Bishop of EmesaDate: 1636

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Pensées ingenieuse [sic]: or, a collection of the bright sayings, sublime thoughts, and witty sentences, of the most celebrated Fathers of the church. ... Translated from the French of the ingenious Bohours: ...

An answer to An essay on spirit: wherein it is shewn, that the author's interpretation of Scripture is imperfect: and his representation of the opinions of the antient Fathers, unfair. By Thomas Knowles.

A supplement to The moderator between an infidel and an apostate; being a dissertation on Daniel's weeks, from the authority of the Fathers. By Thomas Woolston, Sometime Fellow of Sidney College in Cambridge.

The treasure of vowed chastity in secular persons. Also the widdowes glasse. VVritten by the RR. Fathers Leonard Lessius, and Fuluius Androtius, both of the Society of Iesus. Translated into English by I.W. P.

A select collection of catholick sermons, preach'd before their Majesties King James II. Mary Queen-Consort, Catherine Queen-Dowager, &c. ... . By the Reverend Fathers Ayray, Betham, Bix, Codrington, Ellis, Giffard, Godden, Levison, Scarisbrike.

Instruction of youth in Christian piety. Taken out of the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Fathers. From the French of Charles Gobinet , D. D. ... . The fifth edition, Revised and corrected by the Rev. B. Macmahan.

The bishop of Bangor's doctrine prov'd to be sound and orthodox, from the writings of the Latin and Greek Fathers: being a Further Confutation of his Double-Dealing and Malicious Opposers. In Three Chapters. By Philalethes.

A sermon preach'd in Lambeth-Chapel, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God Henry Lord Bishop of Hereford, and Richard Lord Bishop of St. David's. On Sunday, February 2, 1723. By Samuel Croxall.

The independency of the Church upon the state, as to its pure spiritual powers: proved from the Holy Scriptures, and the writings of the Primitive Fathers. With answers to the most material objections. By Thomas Brett, LL. D.

A supplement to The moderator between an infidel and an apostate: being a dissertation on Daniel's weeks, from the authority of the Fathers. The second edition. By Thomas Woolston, B. D. sometime Fellow of Sidney College in Cambridge.

A true history of several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot, in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers. By Captain Walter Scot,

Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ : together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.

A treatise of the three evils of the last times: I. The sword, II. The pestilence, III. The famine; and of their natural and moral causes. As also of the ensuing coming of Antichrist; According to the Notion of the Ancient Fathers.

Observations on the public convenants, betwixt God and the church. A discourse. By Archibald Mason, Minister of the Gospel at Wishawtown. From Jeremiah xi. 10. The House of Israel, and the House of Judah, Have Broken My Covenant, Which I made with their Fathers.

An argument in defence of passive obedience, in Opposition to all Manner of Tenets Advanc'd by several Pretended Fathers of the Church, And other Eminent Writers on the Side of Resistance to the Supreme Powers. By White Kennet, D. D. And Dean of Peterborough.

A collection of private devotions, in the practice of the ancient church, called the Hours of prayer. Taken out of the Holy Scriptures, the Ancient Fathers, and the Divine Service of our Church. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John, late Lord Bishop of Durham.

A letter in defence of Dr. Middleton: being An argument Proving, From the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New testament, That Miraculous Powers were never truly wrought but by Persons divinely inspired; and, consequently, that the pretended Miracles of the Fathers are false and forged.

Memoirs of Nicholas Gabrini de Rienzi; who from a low and despicable situation, rais'd himself to sovereign authority in Rome, in the fourteenth century; ... Collected from contemporary authors and the best historians during that period. From the French of the Reverend Fathers Brumoy and Cerceau.

The last words and confession of Marion Dalgliesh, who was execute at Edinburgh October 6th. 1703. for murdering her own child. Her Age is 21 Years, her Fathers Name is William Dalgliesh, Tennent to Rickerton-Craige, and her self late Servitrix to the Lady Reidhall.

The instruction of youth in Christian piety. Taken out of the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Fathers; with a very profitable treatise for meditation, or mental prayer. By Charles Gobinet, Doctor of Divinity, of the House and Society of Sorbon, Principal of the College of Plessis-Sorbon. ...

A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Quakers refuse to swear: And those Confirmed by Numerous Testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both Fathers, Doctors and Martyrs. Presented to the King and great-council of England, assembled in parliament.

A discourse, shewing that the expositions which the Ante-Nicene Fathers have given of the texts alleged against the Reverend Dr Clarke by a learned layman, are more agreeable to the interpretations of Dr Clarke, than to the interpretations of that learned layman. By a Clergyman in the Country.

The nature of man : A learned and usefull tract written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the philosopher; sometime Bishop of a city in Phœnicia, and one of the most ancient Fathers of the Church. Englished, and divided into sections, with briefs of their principall contents: by Geo: Wither.