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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