Memoirs of the lives and characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie

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the grace, wisdom, and power of the
Almighty.
At one and the same time, he was a
most zealous patriot, a very able states-
man, and a most perfect Christian, that
this or any age has produced ; piety,
charity, justice, and truth, being the
basis of all his private resolves and
public transactions. He considered
mankind as his family, and each indivi-
dual as his child, and as the image of
his heavenly Father. He continued
steadily in his own church and princi-
ples, when at home, and in this country ;
discouraging indifference and wavering
in the external, as well as internal life
of religion, but without rigidness and
narrowness of soul ; believing charity
to be one of the cardinal virtues, and
a guarded freedom essential to our
lapsed and unrecovered natures. I had
the honour of an intimate acquaintance
with him, for the last thirty years of his