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" mastership of the Grammar School, which 

 " Mr. Milner had held so long. The situations 

 " are independent of each other; and the last of 

 " the three I resigned some years ago : the others 

 "I still retain."* Mr. Scott gained, in 1802, 

 the Cambridge Hulsean prize, for the best Essay 

 " on the Internal Evidences of Christianity," 

 which was printed in the following year. He 

 published, in 1807, his Sermon u on the Inir 

 " portance of the Sabbath, with Appendices on 

 4< Societies for the Suppression of Vice, and on 

 *' Sunday Evening Lectures ;" in 1809, his u Six 

 " Sermons on Baptism, Confirmation, and the 

 " Lord's Supper ;" in 1810, a Sermon on the 

 " Fatal Consequences of Licentiousness ;" and 

 since, several other single Sermons, viz. one 

 for the benefit of the Bible Society, entitled " The 

 " Nations imploring the Word of Life," exhibit- 

 ing an epitome of the Society's Reports and 

 Correspondence ; another, preached on the 8th 

 April, 1811, before the Driffield Union Society, 

 entitled " The origin, nature, and effects of true 

 " Religion;" another, preached in 1814, to the 

 British prisoners of war returned from France ; 

 another, in 1816, on the author's entering on the 

 Living of St. Mary's; another, in 1819, "on Bible 

 " Associations ;" another, entitled " Preparation 



* " The History of the Church cf Christ, &c, by John Scott, M. A- 

 &c, 1826. Pre/ p. xi. 



