The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland

Robert Wodrow’s monumental history documents the persecutions endured by Scottish Covenanters between 1660 and 1688. Drawing on eyewitness testimonies, trial records, and private letters, he creates an unflinching record of fines, imprisonments, torture, and executions—yet also of courage, hymn-singing, and heavenly visions. The narrative reads like Acts 29, proving that the blood of the martyrs is still the seed of the church. For anyone who imagines that Reformed Christianity is merely cerebral, this chronicle supplies the corrective of sacrificial blood.