An Informatory Vindication.-1687-James Renwick and Alexander Shields.-This is an extensive apologetic for the course of act taken by the United Societies during the latter end of the Killing Times. It explains their beliefs and their actions in the face of the prevailing currents of apostasy and the vicious persecution that ensued on the covenant keepers.

The Declaration of a Poor, wasted, misrepresented Remnant, of the suffering, Anti-popish, Anti-prelatic, Anti-erastian, Anti-sectarian, true Presby­terian church of Christ, in Scotland.-1692-The United Societies.-In this early declaration, the covenanting Societies lament the defection of the three ministers (Shields, Linning and Boyd) into the Revolution church but they pledge to maintain the cause of covenanted reformation to the best of their ability.

The Protestation & Apologetic Declaration, & Admonitory Vindication.-1695-The United Societies.-This paper decries the wicked confederacies and lamentable defections that had become wide spread in the Church of Scotland contrary to their covenant engagements.

The Protestation, Apologetic Declaration, & Admonitory Vindication.-1703-The United Societies.-A testimony issued against the unlawfulness of the present magistrate, the fruit of covenanting breaking, and a plea for a return to covenanted reformation.

A Protestation and Testimony Against the Incorporating Union with England.-1707-The United Societies.-A testimony against the prevailing evils of the day (1707) with a particular emphasis upon the wickedness of the political union of England and Scotland and its violation of the covenant engagements of both nations.

THE PROTESTATION, DECLINATUR and APPEAL OF Mr. John Mackmillan Minister of the Gospel at Balmaghie, and Mr. John Mackneil Probationer and Preacher of the Gospel, sent to the Commission of the Kirk at Edinburgh the 29 of September. 1708.-1708-John McMillan I.-A clear and earnest testimony by the Cameronian Apostle, John Macmillan, against the various defections amongst Presbyterians in Scotland together with his plain reasons for dissenting from the Revolution establishment of 1690. This contains the very valuable postscript, written by the United Societies concurring with MacMillan.

A Modest Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled; A LETTER from a Friend to Mr. John M‘millan; Showing that his Principles and Practice, are consonant to the Word of GOD, our Confession of Faith and Covenants, and to the Practice of CHRIST, his Apostles, and the Primitive Christians; and that the Anti-scriptural Principles Objected to him by the Author, of casting off all Ecclesiastical and Civil Authority, are False and Injurious Imputations. With a Vindication of the Contending and Suffering, Remnant of the true Covenanted Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland, their present Practice in refusing to concur with the present Church and State in their Backsliding Courses.-1710-Hugh Clark.-This is a polemical defense of the Rev. John Macmillan, written in response to a series of queries and remarks by ministers of the established Church of Scotland. The author systematically answers fifteen queries, arguing that the established Church has defected from the covenanted principles of the Church of Scotland’s purest era. He contends that the Church has abandoned the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant, submitted to Erastian state control, failed to censure perjury and compliance with past tyrannical oaths, and embraced an unlawful union with England and an Oath of Abjuration contrary to the Covenants. Against these charges, the author defends Macmillan’s continued preaching after deposition as both lawful and necessary, arguing that an unjust sentence from a backsliding judicatory cannot invalidate a minister’s divine commission. He further justifies separation from the established Church by appeal to Scripture (e.g., 2 Cor. 6:17, 2 Thess. 3:6) and Reformed divines like Rutherford and Durham, and defends the Dissenters’ refusal to own the present civil magistrate (Queen Anne) on the grounds that she is oath-bound to uphold Prelacy, which violates the nation’s covenanted obligations.

A Seasonable Advertisement, concerning the late publick FAST of the 25th of January, 1712, Publickly Read and affixed to several Church Doors; and now Printed to prevent Misinformation, whereunto are Subjoyned some Reasons of it’s Publication.-1712-United Societies.-This tract, found in a volume of covenant materials which once belonged to Mr. John MacMillan, shows the stance of the Covenanters toward the keeping of holy days was broadly construed to include not merely ecclesiastical but civil days appointed by the magistrate. They see a Romish angle and much harm in observing fast days and, by implication, feast days, appointed by a covenant breaking and covenant refusing magistrate and state.

Renovation of Covenants, Auchensaugh.-1712-John McMillan I. together with Mr. John McNeil.-This is the historical account of the renewal of the Covenants, National and Solemn League, by the early Old Dissenters, or Covenanters together with a record of the transaction.

A Short Survey of a Pamphlet, Entituled, A Friendly Conference betwixt a Countrey-Man and his Nephew. Wherein is discovered the Lameness and Falsehood of the Author’s Defences of the Backslidings of this Church; His pretended Differences betwixt the State and Management of the Testimony of the witnessing Remnant before, and since the Revolution, are reconciled; The Conduct of the Church anent the late Treaty of Union, is briefly discoursed, and shown to have been Unfaithful: Other incident Controversies are succinctly handled, And his Malicious Queries answered. Whereunto is prefixed a large PREFACE, containing Remarks upon the ACT for preventing the Disturbing those of the Episcopal Communion in the free Exercise of their Religious Worship, and in the Use of the Liturgy of the Church of England; together with some Reasons against the Oath of Abjuration thereby enjoined. As also Observations upon the Addresses and Representations of the Commission of the Kirk thereanent. With Animadversions upon the Bill for Restoring Patronages in Scotland.-ca. 1712-Anonymous.-This pamphlet is a vigorous rebuttal of a dialogue titled A Friendly Conference, which had criticized the dissenting Cameronian societies for withdrawing from the established Church of Scotland. The anonymous author defends the Dissenters’ separation, arguing that the post-Revolution settlement is fundamentally flawed due to its Erastian encroachments, its failure to renew the Solemn League and Covenant, and its incorporation of unrepentant malignants and toleration-accepters. He systematically refutes the dialogist’s charges, defending the Dissenters’ conduct in withdrawing, their refusal to pay the cess, and their disowning of uncovenanted magistrates. The latter half of the pamphlet vigorously defends Mr. John M’Millan and Mr. M’neil against personal calumnies, arguing that their testimony is consistent with that of the martyred Mr. James Renwick, and that the real schism lies with the established church’s defection from covenanted reformation.

A Converse Betwixt Two Presbyterians of the Established Church, An Elder and a Preacher. Wherein, The Presbyterian Dissenters from the Establish’d Church, are vindicate from the Charge of Jacobitism; their Principles anent Civil Government, are fairly stated, and succinctly proven consonant to Scripture Light, and the Confession of Faith; and several Important Objections thereanent, answered. For Confirmation of the Weak, and Information of the Misinformed in that Matter.-1714-United Societies?-This 1714 dialogue features an Elder and a Preacher of the established Church of Scotland discussing the Presbyterian Dissenters (Cameronians/United Societies) who refused to acknowledge Queen Anne’s authority. The Preacher voices the common accusation that such disaffection proves Jacobite sympathies, while the Elder systematically vindicates the Dissenters by demonstrating that their covenanting principles—particularly their commitment to the National Covenant and Solemn League, which made Presbyterian religion a fundamental constitutional requirement for Scottish rulers—actually make them the staunchest opponents of the Popish Pretender. The dialogue then explores the Dissenters’ political theology in depth: their distinction between just and legal authority (which requires constitutional qualifications) versus mere power, their argument that Scotland’s covenants cannot be rescinded by Parliament, and the practical consequences of these convictions including refusal to pay cess or appear before civil courts. The work serves both as an apologetic clearing the Dissenters of Jacobitism and as a substantive exposition of covenanting resistance theory.

The True Copy of the Declaration Published at Auchensaugh nigh Douglas.-1719-The United Societies.-A published declaration from 1718 by the Covenanters testifying against the national reception of the House of Hanover (George I.) and its clandestine Lutheranism.