John Willison - Selected Writings of Willison

Selected Writings of Willison

  • Treatise Concerning the Sanctification of the Lord's-Day (1712 or 1713)
  • A Letter from a Parochial Bishop to a Prelatical Gentleman in Scotland, concerning the Government of the Church(1714)
  • A Sacramental Directory: or, a Treatise concerning the Sanctification of a Communion-Sabbath (1716)
  • An apology for the Church of Scotland : against the accusations of prelatists and Jacobites, particularly the reflections of J.S. late incumbent at Forfar (1719)
  • A letter to an English member of Parliament : from a gentleman in Scotland, concerning the slavish dependencies, which a great part of that nation is still kept under, by superiorities, wards, reliefs, and other remains of the feudal law, and by clanships and tithes (1721)
  • The Church's danger, and the minister's duty declared, in a sermon preach'd at the opening of the Synod of Angus and Mearns (1733)
  • The Afflicted Man's Companion (1737)
  • An Example of plain Catechising upon the Assembly's Shorter Catechism (1737)
  • The balm of Gilead, for healing a diseased land (1742)
  • A fair and impartial testimony : essayed in name of a number of ministers, elders, and Christian people of the Church of Scotland, unto the laudable principles, wrestlings and attainments of that Church; and against the backslidings, corruptions, divisions, and prevailing evils, both of former and present times (1744)
  • Sacramental meditations and advices for the use of communicants : in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections, on sacramental occasions ; and a Christian directory, consisting of forty scripture directions, proper for all those intending heaven (1747)

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