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 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795. Excerpt: ... God was pleased, (as he himself used to speak) in an hour to turn hit captivity. All the terrors of his former state were changed into. unutterable joy, which kept him almost continually waking for three nights together, -and yet refreshed him as the noblest of cordials. His expressions, though naturally very strong, always seemed to be swallowed up, when he would describe the series of thought through which he now passed, under the rapturous experience of that joy unspeakable and full of glory, which then seemed to overflow his very foul; as indeed there was nothing he seemed to speak of with greater relish. And though the first ecstacies of it afterwards subsided into a more calm and composed delight, yet were the impressions so deep and so permanent, that he assured ine, on the word of a Christian and a friend, wonderful as it might seem, that for about seven years after this, he enjoyed almost an heaven upon earth. His foul was so continually filled with a sense of the love of God in Christ, that it knew little interruption, but when necessary converse, and the duties of his station, called off his thoughts for a little time: and when they did so, as soon as he was alone, the torrent returned into its natural channel again; so that from he minute of his awakening in the morning, his heart was rising to God, and triumphing in him; and these thoughts attended him through all the scenes of life, till he lay down on his bed again, and a short paren: thesis of fleep (for it was but a very short one that he allowed himself) invigorated his animal powers, for renewing them with greater intenfeness and sensibility. I shall have an opportunity of illustrating this in the most convincing manner below, by extracts from several letters which he wrote to intimate fr.