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

Of military and civil, oublie and domefiic lifes You trace hirri perfcvcring m a {foady and form courre of goodnefs, through a long {cries of' honourab'le and profpc'rous years, the deg. Light of all that were to happy as to know himr and, in his fphere, the moil: faithful guar dian of his country till at laft, worn out with horiourable labours, and broken with infirmitt s which they had hafiened upon him before the time, you fee him forgetting them at'once at the call oi duty and Providence; with all the gen erous ardour of his molt vigorous; days ruihin'g on the enemies of religion and liberty, fufiar'niirg their {hock with the' molt deliberate fortitude, when deferted by thofe tha't {hot-id have fup ported him, and cheerfully facrificing the little remains of a mortal life, 11i the triumphant views ofa glorious immortality.

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