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• His Majesties proclamation in Scotland : with an explanation of the meaning of the oath and covenant, by the lord Marquesse, his Majesties high commissioner. (Printed by Robert Young, 1639), by King Charles I of England and James Hamilton Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• An answer to the declaration of the pretended Assembly at Dundee ; and to a printed paper, intituled, the Protestation given in by the dissenting brethren to the General Assembly, July 21. 1652 : reviewed and refuted, &c. in which answer are set down ten steps of their defection who follow the way of the publick Resolutions. Together with observations upon some of the acts of the P. Assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh, and some papers concerning the endeavors of the Protesters for union with their brethren, who differ from them in judgement. ([Edinburgh] : [publisher not identified], 1653., 1653), by Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A seasonable warneing [sic] to the poor persecuted Church of Scotland, or Dissuasive to all true non-con[for]mists, from sinful complying with, [b]eing of, and active submitting to abjured prelats, and their underlings, by hearing of them, any other way strenghening their hands to the overturning the work of reformation Philalethes. ([London : s.n.], printed in the year 1682), by fl. 1682 Philalethes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Notices of the life of the Rev. John Carstaires minister of the High Church, Glasgow with a number of his unpublished letters and the letters of other Scottish worthies (Edinburgh Printing Co., 1843), by William Ferrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humble pleadings for the good old-way ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1713., 1713), by Gavin Mitchell, John Hepburn, and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causes of the Lord's wrath against Scotland : manifested in his sad late dispensations. Whereunto is added a paper, particularly holding forth the sins of the ministry. ([Edinburgh] : [publisher not identified], printed in the year 1732., 1732), by Archibald Johnston Warriston, George Gillespie, James Guthrie, and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short declaration to the whole kirk and kingdom concerning present dangers and duties. (Edinburgh : Printed by Evan Tyler, 1648., 1648), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly, A. Ker, and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A seasonable and necessary warning and declaration : concerning present and imminent dangers, and concerning duties relating thereto (Edynburgh : Printed by Evan Tyler ..., 1649., 1649), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly, A. Ker, and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church wounded and rent by a spirit of division held forth in a short account of some sad differences hath been of late in the Church of Scotland, with the occasion, grounds, and too evident product therof whose wounds are bleeding to this day : togither with some vindication of the truth, and principles of our church in this present state of things from unjust revilings and reproach, and a few words in the close with respect to what are the greatest concerns of Christians exercise and duty in these times. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1681), by Robert Fleming (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland in four conferences, wherein the answer to the dialogues betwixt the Conformist and Non-conformist is examined / by Gilbert Burnet ... (Glasgow : By Robert Sanders ..., MDCLXXIII [1673]), by Gilbert Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Answeres to the particulars proponed by His Majesties commissionar ([Edinburgh : Heirs of A. Hart, 1638]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Information for the moderator of the presbytry of Glasgow and the agent for the kirk, against the titulars and tacksmen of the teinds within the paroch of Calder, and the heretors of the said paroch for their interests. ([Glasgow : s.n., 1698?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short exhortation and warning, to the ministers and professours of this Kirk from the Commission of the Generall Assemblie. ([Aberdeen : Printed by James Brown, 1651]), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The principal acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland conveened at Edinburgh, January 11. 1698 / collected and extracted from the records, by the clerk thereof. (Edinburgh : Printed by George Mosman ..., M.DC.XCVIII. [1698]), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Letter from the Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to the honourable council and inhabitants of the Scots colony of Caledonia in America dated at Glasgow, July 21, 1699. (Glasgow : Printed by Robert Sanders ..., 1699), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from Edinburgh to one in London, &c. (Edinburgh : Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Act in favours of these of the Scots nation in Konigsberg, for a voluntar collection. At Edinburgh, the fifteenth day of April, 1697. Years. (Edinburgh, : Printed by George Mosman, in the year, 1697), by Scotland. Privy Council, Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission, and Church of Scotland. Provincial Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Causes of the Lords wrath against Scotland manifested in his sad late dispensations. Whereunto is added a paper, particularly holding forth the sins of the ministery. ([Edinburgh] : Printed [by the heirs of Geo. Anderson], in the year 1653), by Archibald Johnston Warriston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Causes of a solemne fast, appointed by the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, to be kept in all the congregations of this kirk, upon the last Thursday of April, 1646 (Printed at Edinburgh : by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1646), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and A. Ker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Answer to the declaration of the pretended assembly at Dundee and to a printed paper intituled The protestation given in by the dissenting brethren to the General Assembly, July 21, 1652, reviewed and refuted &c., in which answer are set down ten steps of their defection who follow the way of publick resolutions : together with observations upon some of the acts of the p. assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh and some papers concerning the endeavors of the protesters for union with their brethren who differ from them in judgement. ([Leith? : s.n.], 1653) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from Rotterdam, touching the Scotch affaires, since November, 1650. ([Rotterdam : [s.n.], 1/2 March. 1650 [i.e. 1651]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Acts and proceedings of the General assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland. (Edinburgh, 1839), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The register of the Synod of Galloway : from October 1664 to April 1671. (Kirkcudbright : Printed and published by J. Nicholson, 1856., 1856), by Church of Scotland. Synod of Galloway, J. Nicholson, and George Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inverness Kirk-Session records. 1661-1800 (R. Carruthers, 1902), by Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Inverness and Alexander Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acts and proceedings of the General assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, from the year M.D.LX. : collected from the most authentic manuscripts ([Bannatyne Club], 1839), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Kirk of Scotland : containing the acts and proceedings of the General Assemblies, from the year 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly : with notes and historical illustrations (P. Brown, 1843), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Alexander Peterkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selection from the correspondence carried on during certain recent negociations for the adjustment of the Scottish Church question. (Bell & Bradfute, 1842), by George Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc, registrorum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc. ([Bannatyne Club], 1848), by Arbroath Abbey, Patrick Chalmers, Cosmo Innes, and Scotland) Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the Presbytery book of Strathbogie : A. D. M.DC.XXXI.-M.DC.LIV. (The Spalding Club, 1843), by Church of Scotland. Presbyteries. Strathbogie and John Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix to the Booke of the Universall kirk of Scotland : containing historical illustrations of the proceedings of the Church of Scotland, from the years M.D.XCVII-M.D.C.III ... ([Edinburgh], 1845), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The records of the commissions of the general assemblies of the church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1646[-1652]. (Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish history Society, 1892), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission, Charles John Guthrie Guthrie, Jamed Christie, and Alexander Ferrier Mithcell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasury of the Scottish covenant (Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot, 1887., 1887), by John C. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The records of the commissions of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1646-16 (Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1892), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission, James Christie, and Alexander F. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the presbyteries of Inverness and Dingwall, 1643-1688. (Printed at the University press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish history society, 1896), by Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Inverness, William Mackay, and Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Dingwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The session book of Bunkle and Preston, 1665-1690. (Printed for the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club by H. H. Blair, 1900), by Scot. Bunkle and Preston, George Henderson, J. Ferguson, George Henderson, Charles S. Romanes, George Gunn, James Hardy, and Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The records of the commissions of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1646 and 1647 (Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1892), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly, James Christie, and Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Kirk of Scotland : containing the acts and proceedings of the General Assemblies, from the year 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly : with notes and historical illustrations (John Sutherland, 1838), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly, Andrew Dickson White, and Alexander Peterkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publication[s] of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed Church in Scotland ... (Printed for the Wodrow Society, 1842), by Wodrow Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acts and proceedings of the General assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, from the year M.D.LX. Collected from the most authentic manuscripts ... (Edinburgh, 1839), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the registers of the Presbytery of Lanark, 1623-1709 (Printed for the Abbotsford Club, 1839), by Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Lanark, John Robertson, and Abbotsford Club (Edinburgh) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A View of the present condition of the three kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland. : Manifested in these interchangeable passages betweene them ... (Printed for John Bellamy, and Ralph Smith, 1642) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jus populi divinum (Edinburgh : Printed and sold by by William Brown ..., 1727., 1727), by John Currie and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abridgment of the acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, from the year 1638 to 1810 inclusive, alphabetically arranged : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing an abridgment of all the acts of Parliament relating to the Church of Scotland. (Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable & Company by Abernethy & Walker, 1811., 1811), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Mr. Robert Blair, minister of St. Andrews, containing his autobiography, from 1593-1636 : with supplement of his life and continuation of the history of the times, to 1680 (Edinburgh : Wodrow Society, 1848., 1848), by Robert Blair, Thomas M'Crie, William Row, Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary), Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Wodrow Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principal acts of the solemn General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland (Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs of Andrevv Hart, anno Dom. 1639., 1639), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1842. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1842?], 1842), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix to the book of the Universall Kirk of Scotland : containing historical illustrations of the proceedings of the Church of Scotland, from the years MDXCVII-MDCIII. (Maitland Club, 1845), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained., ed. by Alexander Peterkin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly., by Church of Scotland. General Assembly, ed. by Alexander Peterkin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Literae a Conventu Theologorum in Anglia et Ecclesiae Scoticanae delegatis. English (London : Printed by Richard Cotes for Ralph Smith, and are to be sold at his Shop ..., 1644), by Westminster Assembly, John Maitland Lauderdale, Church of Scotland. General Assembly, and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A grave and serious advice of the ministers of the Kirk of Scotland: to masters of families that they may govern according to the word of God. ([S.l. : s.n., ca. 1650]), by Church of Scotland and A. Ker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Good counsell come from Scotland ([London] : First printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. And re-printed at London by John Dever & Robert Ibbitson, for John Bellamy, Janua. 4. 1647), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and A. Ker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Good counsell come from Scotland: or, A solemn and seasonable vvarning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land: for holding fast the League & Covenant with England, and avoyding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof: by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly. Edinb. 19. Decemb. 1646. The Commission of the General Assembly ordains this warning to be forthwith printed, and that thereafter it be sent to Presbyteries; requiring them, immediately after the receipt thereof, to cause every minister of their number read the same distinctly, and explain it to their people upon a Sabbath day in their severall kirks, and that they report accompt of their diligence with the first conveniencie: appointing in the mean time, that to morrow the same be read in all the kirks of this city. A. Ker. (Edinburgh : printed by Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1646), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly and A. Ker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The humble petition of the Commissioners of the General Assembly to the Kings Majesty their declaration sent to the Parliament of England : their letter to some brethren of the ministry there, and their commission to their brother Master Alexander Henderson, January 1643. (Edinburgh : Printed by Evan Tyler ..., 1643), by Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The declaration of the kingdome of Scotland, concerning the present expedition into England according to the commission and order of the Convention of Estates, from their meeting at Edinburgh, August 1643. (Edinburgh : Printed by Evan Tyler ..., 1643), by Scotland. Convention of Estates (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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