A vast amount of literature is available on the Scottish Covenanters, including many original papers and sermons. A lot of hagiographical material, based mainly on anecdotal evidence for popular consumption, was produced by later generations, but from the more serious writings the following is offered as a guide: J. Beveridge, The Covenanters (London, n.d.); P. Walker, Biographia Presbyteriana (Edinburgh, 1827); Six Saints of the Covenant, 2 vols. (London, 1901); J. Aikman, Annals of the Persecution in Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution (Edinburgh, 1842); The Presbyterian’s Armoury (Edinburgh, 1846); J. Dodds, The Scottish Covenanters (Edinburgh, 1860); J. C. Johnston, A Treasury of the Scottish Covenant (Edinburgh, 1887); The Covenants and the Covenanters, ed. J. Kerr (Edinburgh, 1895); J. K. Hewison, The Covenanters, 2 vols. (Glasgow, 1908); A. Smellie, Men of the Covenant (London, 1908); J. Lumsden, The Covenants of Scotland (Paisley, 1914); A. S. Morton, Galloway and the Covenanters (Paisley, 1914); H. MacPherson, The Covenanters Under Persecution (Edinburgh, 1923); W. Syme, The Covenanters, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, n.d.); J. G. Vos, The Scottish Covenanters: Their Origins, History, and Distinctive Doctrines (Pittsburgh, 1940); H. Watt, Recalling the Scottish Covenants (Edinburgh, 1946); J. Barr, The Scottish Covenanters (Glasgow, 1947); J. D. Douglas, “The Scottish Covenanters 1638-1683: A Study in the Political Implications of their Theological Literature” (PhD diss., Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1955); I. B. Cowan, The Scottish Covenanters 1660–88(London, 1976).

Andrew A. Woolsey, Unity and Continuity in Covenantal Thought: A Study in the Reformed Tradition to the Westminster Assembly, 139.