Excerpt from Sermons: Chiefly on Doctrinal Subjects DR J orn colquhoun, the son of a small farmer on the estate of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart. In the parish of Luss, Dumbartonshire, was born on the lst of January 1748. His first religious impressions appear to have been produced while he was yet in childhood, through the instru mentality of his mother's pious instructions; and they never afterwards seem to have been efl'aced. The first rudiments of educa tion he received in a neighbouring school, under the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland, where the only branches at that time taught, were English reading, writing, arithmetic, and the principles of religion. The teacher being aman of decided Christian piety, anxiously endeavour ed, in communicating religious knowledge to his scholars, to impress its sacred truths on their hearts no less than their memory, and, through the Divine blessing, not without successful results. To his ex planations, examinations, and applications of the an swer to the question in the Assembly's Catechism, What is efi'ectual calling Mr Colquhoun, ingly, always traced his saving conversion to the faith of the Gospel. Thirsting after a fuller acquaint anoe with religious truth, his enlightened teacher particularly recommended him to procure a copy of Boston's Fourfold State, as well fitted to promote his religious improvement. This, however, was not in those days so easily accomplished as now; but so eager was he to obtain it, that he travelled on foot all the way to Glasgow, - a distance, going and re turning, probably about 50 miles, -for that purpose alone; and came back rejoicing in the valuable trea. Sure. To this, in time, he added Boston's other works; and these he ever afterwards regarded as next to the Bible, his great authorities, and as it were text books, - studying them with unwearied diligence, and transferring their very substance as well as sentiments into his own discourses and writ In S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.