Two pamphlets on the Bangorian controversy
brought him into notice; and he wrote many religious and political
dissertations. "A Defence of Primitive Christianity, against the
Exhorbitant Claims of Fanatical and Dissaffected Clergymen;" "Tracts on
Religion, and on the Jacobite Rebellion of '45;" "The Pillars of
Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken;" "A Cordial for Low Spirits;" are the
titles of some of his compositions. In politics, and in theology, he was a
republican and free-thinker: he translated and edited "The Spirit of
Ecclesiastics in All Ages;" he was a contributor to "The Independent
Whig;" and in a series of "Cato's Letters," he discoursed at ease upon his
usual topics. The Tacitus was published in 1728, in two volumes folio:
long dissertations are inserted in either volume; the literature in them
excellent, the politics not so good: the volumes, as well as the several
parts of them, are dedicated to some Royal and many Noble Patrons. Gordon
has also turned Sallust into English: the book was published in 1744, in
one handsome quarto; "with Political Discourses upon that Author and
Translations of Cicero's Four Orations against Cataline.
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