OF THE LIFE O F MR JOSIAH TOMKIN S, Late STUDENT of MEDICINE in the University of EDINBURGH. EXHIBITING His fatal Seduction to Vice, his fincere Conver fion, his awful Warnings to his Companions in Iniquity, and his joyful and triumphant Death.. Collected by JAMES NASSA U, Efq; His Companion in Sin and Repentance. EDINBURG H: PRINTED BY JOHN REI D. 210. m. 219. To ALL ATHEISTS AND INFIDELS, THE SONS OF VICE AND DISSIPATION, THE LEWD OFFSPRING OF PIOUS OR GRACELESS PARENTS, ALL THOUGHTLESS AND SECURE SINNERS, EVERY HATER OF GOD AND RELIGION, AND ALL SELF-RIGHTEOUS PHARISEES; AND TO ALL PERSONS UNDER CONVICTION OF SIN, EVERY ONE DESIROUS OF SALVATION, THE CHILDREN OF GRACE AND REFORMA TION, CHRISTIANS MODEST AND HUMBLE, TIMOROUS AND DOUBTING BELIEVERS, AND EVERY FRIEND TO CHRIST AND TRUTH: THE FOLLOWING MEMOIRS, ADAPTED TO THE CASE OF EVERY PERSON, DESIGNED TO REPRESS LEVITY AND LEWDNESS, ROOT OUT INFIDELITY, PROMOTE SINCERE RELIGION, RECOMMEND VIRTUE AND MORALITY, AND ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED By THE AUTHOR. PREF A CE B Y. THE PUBLISHER. Having been one of the companions of Mr T———s, firft in iniquity, and afterwards, I hope, in the kingdom and faith of Jefus Chrift, after that gentleman's death I retired to the country, and practifed medicine in a certain city. Mr N- -u, who had been Mr Ts's favourite companion, became alfo mine; and used to vifit me four times a year, fometimes of tener, as long as he lived, flaying with me feveral days each vifit. As he took down in fhort-hand many fpeeches, foliloquies, prayers, &c. made by our dear · friend during his long illness and at his death, and reduced them into the form of a narrative, with a reading of which he favoured me; I earneftly importuned him to publish the account, as I was perfuaded it might be very ufeful for promoting the interefts of religion and virtue but I could not prevail upon him by all the arguments I could ufe. However, I took a copy of the manufcript, and fent it to the printer of the prefent work, exprefsly prohibiting him to publish it without my permiffion. : -u review Some months before his death, Mr N-ed, enlarged, and put the finishing hand to thefe Memoirs fo far as concerns Mr Ts, with the addition of other three parts. On his deathbed he delivered the manufcript, with a large collection of papers, writings, and letters, to the Rev. Mr. ordering him, immediately after his decease, to tranfmit them to me; which he did accordingly. On opening the large parcel fent me, I found a long letter addreffed to me, written by Mr Nu's own hand, containing one of the two copies of his will, written by himfelf, in which he bequeaths to me the Memoirs, with all the manufcripts, papers, letters, and writings that belong |