Some Remarkable Passages, in the Life of the Hon. Col. James Gardiner, Who Was Slain at the Battle of Preston Pans, September 21, 1745: To Which Is Added the Sermon, Occasioned by His Heroick Death (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Some Remarkable Passages, in the Life of the Hon. Col. James Gardiner, Who Was Slain at the Battle of Preston Pans, September 21, 1745: To Which Is Added the Sermon, Occasioned by His Heroick Death

My hopes, Sir, that all th owerful motives ill efirecialb: have their eficacy on you, are greatly encouraged by rtainty which I have ofyoii well acquainted with the evidence of Chrijtianity in its full extent a criminal ignorance of which, in the mid/t great advantages for learning them, leaves many of our young people a prey to Deifm, an to vice and ruin, which generally bring up. Rear.' My life would be a. Continual burthen to me, if] had not a con/cioufnefs in the fight of God, that during the years in which the import; ant tru Qf your education was committed to (are, had laid before you the both natural and revealed religion, e 5 c/i'tem to be, with regard to they are care ully' examinedm and that 1 ad' endeavoured to attend them with theft addrefle's, which might-beimq/t' likely to impre/s your heart. You have not, dear Sir.

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