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- The Answers of Some Brethren of the Ministerie to the Replies of the Ministers and Professours of Divinitie in Aberdene, Concerning the Late Covenant. Also, Duplies of the Ministers and Professors of Aberdene, to the second Answers of some reverend Brethren, Concerning the Late Covenant, R. Young: Edinburgh, 1638.
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- Denlinger, Aaron Clay (2012). ""Men of Gallio's Naughty Faith?": The Aberdeen Doctors on Reformed and Lutheran Concord". Church History and Religious Culture. 92 (1): 57–83. doi:10.1163/187124112X621275. ISSN 1871-241X.
- Kerr, John (2014). Scottish Education. Cambridge University Press. pp. 132–3. ISBN 9781107455917.
- Macmillan, Donald (1909). The Aberdeen doctors : a notable group of Scottish theologians of the first episcopal period, 1610–1638 and the bearing of their teaching on some questions of the present time. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
