Some
REMARKABLE PASSAGES
in the
L I F E
of the Honourable
Col. JAMES GARDINER,
Who was Slain at the Battle of Preston-Pans,
21st September, 1745.

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Philip Doddridge was a highly esteemed English Congregational minister and religious writer in the early 18th century. One of his most famous works, The Life of Col. James Gardiner, recounts his intimate knowledge of a career military officer’s unusual, nearly instantaneous conversion from a life of hedonism to devout Christianity. Doddridge knew and corresponded with Col. Gardiner for fifteen years until his death at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745. During their relationship, Doddridge was continually struck by how Gardiner lived his faith in every aspect of his life, whether as a husband, father, friend, or commander of a regiment of dragoons. The text includes Gardiner’s letters to Doddridge and excerpts from the colonel’s letters to others.

Table of Contents:

Editor’s Introduction.
Author’s Dedication.
A Short Biography of Philip Doddridge.

Parentage and Early Days.

The Battle of Ramillies, 23 May 1706.

Military Preferments.

Checks of Conscience.

His Conversion.

Letters.

Domestic Relations.

Conduct as an Officer.

Intimacy with the Author.

Devotion and Charity.

Embarks for Flanders.

Return to England.

Revival of Religion.

Apprehensions of Death.

The Battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745.

Appendices:
I. The Colonel’s Personal Appearance.
II. An Account of the Battle of Ramillies.
III. Deism in France.
IV. The Revival near Glasgow, 1741-2.
V. The Battle of Prestonpans, and a Description of Bankton House.
VI. Extracts from Dr. Doddridge’s Funeral Sermon for Col. Gardiner.
VII. An Elegy on the Death of Col. Gardiner.
VIII. ”Colonel Gardener,” Tune, Sawnie’s Pipe.

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