The life of colonel Gardiner. With an appendix. (Albion press ed.) - Softcover

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. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ...above, to have been ever so solid and important, yet there may be some appearance of boasting in so free a communication of them; I must add to what I have hinted in reference to this above, that I find in many of the papers u'--=' His great humility. papers before me very genuine expressions of the deepest humility and self-abasement, which indeed such holy converse with God in prayer and praise does, above all things in the world, tend to promote. Thus, in one of his letters, he says, "I am but as a beast before him." In another, he calls himself a miserable hell-deserving sinner; and in another, he cries out, "Oh, how good a master do I serve! but, alas, how ungrateful am I! What can be so astonishing as the love of Christ to us, unless it be the coldness of our sinful hearts towards such a Saviour!" With many other clauses of the like nature, which I shall not more particularly trace through the variety of letters in which they occur. It is a further instance of this unfeigned humility, that when, as his lady, with her usual propriety of language, expresses it, in one of her letters to me concerning him, " These divine joys and consolations were not his daily allowance," he, with equal freedom, in the confidence of Christian friendship, acknowledges and laments it. Thus, in the first letter I had the honour of receiving from him, dated from Leicester, July 9, 1739, when he had been mentioning the blessing with which it had pleased God to attend my last address to him, and the influence it had upon his mind, he adds, " Much do I stand in need of every help, to awaken me out of that spiritual deadness, which seizes me so often. Once indeed 5. N t Mr. Spears' letter respecting tlie Colonel. it was quite...