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Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Col. James Gardiner. With an Appendix Relating to the Family of the Munros of Fowlis
Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Col James Gardiner With an Appendix Relating to the Family of the Munros of Fowlis Author:Philip Doddridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1748 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: This Return, (which happened, if I mif- take not, about the Year 1726,) was a happy Providence to many. For as he was remarkably fuccefsful in both the Branches of his peculiar Profeffion, he took great Pains in both : And as he did this without Fee or Reward, when he was fatisfied the Circum- ftances of the Afflicted needed fuch Affift- ance, he was an Inftrument of faving many Limbs, and many Lives, which muft other- wife in all Probability have been loft. To this Account, I muft beg Leave to add what another of my Correfpondents writes to me concerning the Doffor in the following Words: " As we were often by " ourfelves, I ftill found him inclined to " turn our Difcourfe to Spiritual Stibjefts, " concerning God and Religion, the Offices " of the great Redeemer, and the Power of " God's Spirit in converting and fandlify- ing the Souls of Men, and the Hope of " Eternal Life through Christ." I tranf- cribe the Pafiage thus particularly concerning this pious Pbyfician, as I efteem it in one View, a peculiar Honour to him, and permit me to fay in another, to the Profeffion itfelf: Blefled be God, that tho' it is fo rare a Cafe, yet there are thofe of that learned Body, who arc not afhamed of the Gofpel o/ Cbrift; but who knowing it to be true on inconteftable Evidence, and having felt (what(what one would imagine every Rational Creature who believes it to be true, muft immediately fee,) its infinite Importance,. have fteadily determined to fubmit to its Influence, and to maintain its Honours in the midft of all the Scorn and Derifion of their Infidel Brethren : A Determination, which perhaps requires n...« less