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

My hopes, Sir, that all thc powerful motives will efpe cially have their full efficacy on you, are greatly e11cou1aged by the certainty Which I have of your being Well acquainted With the evidence of Chtiflianity in itsfull extent; a cri minal ignorance of which, in the midft of great advant ages for learning them, leaves (0 many of our young people a' pay to Deifm, and (0 to vice and ruin, which generally bring up its rear. My life would be a continual bu1theu to me, if 5 had not a confcioufuefs iu the fight of God, that during the years in which the important trofi of 'your education v as commuted to my care, I had laid before you 1115 proois both of natural and revealed religion, in wh at I aflhredly efteetn to be, with regard to the judgment, if they are carefully ex an1iued, ati irrefifiable light and th at I had endeavoured to attend them with thole addteffes, which might be mofl likely to imprefs your heart. You have not, dear Si1, foio otte11, and I am confident you gcan never entirely forget, the afii dutty with which I have laboured to form your 11 ind, not only to what might be ornamental toyon in human life, but above all to a true talte of, what is really excellent, and an early contempt of thofe vanities by ivhtch the generality of our youth, efpecially in your fiatiou, arc debafed, enetvated, and undone. My private as well as public addreiles 111 this purpofe will, I know, he temembereti by you, audl the tears of tendernefs With which they have (0 often been ac; companied: And may they be (0 remembered, that they who are molt tenderly concerned; may be comforted under the lots of foch art iuefiimable friend as Colonel Gard: ner, by feeing that his chara ler, in all its mofi amiable anti te fplendent parts, lives 111 you; and that how dificult foever it may be to aft up to that height of expe 'tation With wh: eh the eyes ofthe wetltl will be fixed 011 the (on of iuch a ta ther, you are it1 the fiteugth of divine grace attempting it at lcall at'e following him with generous emulation, anti3 With daily folicitude, that the Rope may he lets unequal.

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