Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The edition, from which this is a transcript, has the original preface of Bishop Bur¬net entire, and Archbishop Leighton's Rules for a Holy Life. It is believed to be an exact copy of the first edi¬tion, printed under the author's eye*. It this has received the commendation of the most eminent Christians for almost two hundred years. The Rev. Dr. Gairden, in his funeral-sermon upon Mr. Scougal, says: "Whoever considers this book, the clear representation of the life and spirit of true religion, the propos¬als of the most effectual motives for attaining to it, to¬gether with the natural eloquence of the style, can not but be sensible of its great usefulness." Dr. Wishart, Principal of King's College, Edinburgh, published a preface in 1739, in which he says: "Since I had the happiness to become acquainted with this book, I have heartily blessed God for the benefit to my own soul, and have earnestly wished it had a place in every family." And oh! my brethren, how should it put us to the blush to know that the worthy author of this book composed it before he was twenty-seven years of age! What a spur to our religion that he came to his reward before he was eight-and¬ twenty!" In 1805, another edition was published in Philadel¬phia, with the names of James Pilmore, Ashbell Green, William Rogers, William Staughton, and many other religious leaders, signed to a high recommenda¬tion, *More than a hundred years ago, Mary Stuart, who, with many others bearing that ill-fated name, was exiled, from her native Scotland, brought a copy of Scougal to Virginia, which fell into the bands of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander. From her the famous "Parson Weems" borrowed this copy to have it reprinted, which was done in Philadelphia, in 1705. So though the original was destroyed in a fire, Rev Weems was able to replace with the new edition, which was said by Mrs. Alexander to be a facsimile of the copy imported Mary Stuart. From this copy that the present reprint is made.