last publication was Sacramental Meditations and Advices (1747). Selected writings 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) Sources Biographical introduction to John Johnstone's reprint of "The Afflicted Man's Companion" COPAC External links A Puritan's Mind Etext of "The Young Communicant's Catechism" Christian Classics Ethereal Library Etext of "A Fair and Impartial Testimony" Electric Scotland John Willison biography The Highway Includes Etext of Willison's "Five Sacramental Sermons" Reformation Press Two booklets currently in print reprinting parts of Willison's writings under the titles "Directions for Christians" and "Meditations on the Lord's Supper" James Begg Society Sample from "An Example of Plain Catechising" Revival Library Letter from Willison about the Cambuslang Revival 1680 births 1750 deaths People from Stirling 18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Scottish evangelicals Scottish religious writers