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King James Version
1611 English translation of the Christian Bible
The Pilgrim’s Progress
1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan
Book of Common Prayer
prayer book used in most Anglican churches
Pensées
thumb|Second edition of Blaise Pascal's , 1670 The '''' (Thoughts'') is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work.
Westminster Confession of Faith
Presbyterian creedal statement
Ussher chronology
17th-century chronology of the history of the world
Canons of Dort
judgment of the National Synod held in Dordrecht (Dort) in 1618–19 against Arminianism
Douay–Rheims Bible
First complete English language Catholic Bible
1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
document written about the Baptist Christian faith
Bucharest Bible
first complete translation of the Bible into the Romanian language; patronized by Șerban Cantacuzino, overseen by Constantin Brâncoveanu
Introduction to the Devout Life
book by Franciscus van Sales
Cuneus Prophetarum
book
Martyrs Mirror
1660 book of Christian martyrs
Savoy Declaration
Congregationalist confession of Faith
Religio Medici
1643 psychological self-portrait by Sir Thomas Browne
Annales Ecclesiastici
history of the first 12 centuries of the Christian Church by Caesar Baronius
Westminster Standards
collection of Presbyterian religious documents
Abagar
right|thumb|One of the pages of Abagar, preserved in the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia Abagar ("Абагар") is a breviary by the Bulgarian Roman Catholic Bishop of Nikopol Filip Stanislavov printed in Rome in 1651. It is regarded as the first printed book in modern Bulgarian. The language of the breviary is a specific blend of modern Bulgarian and Church Slavonic with Serbo-Croatian influences, that was used in writing by the Catholics from Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria, in the period. Unlike many other works of the Bulgarian Roman Catholics, it was printed in Cyrillic and not Latin. =
Turris Babel
book by Athanasius Kircher
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture
Dissertation by Isaac Newton
The Practice of the Presence of God
book by Brother Lawrence
Dordrecht Confession of Faith
1632 statement of Mennonite beliefs
Bible translations into Danish
Overview of Bible translations into Danish
National Covenant
a covenant signed by the people of Scotland in 1638
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden
English translations of pseudepigrapha and apocryphon
1644 Baptist Confession of Faith
Particular Baptist confession of faith
Huei tlamahuiçoltica
religious tract written in Nahuatl, published in Mexico City in 1649
Gero
book by Pedro de Axular
The Holy War
1682 novel by John Bunyan
1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
American antislavery document