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3g. 20. 33. The great Duty of aéting 
under the Belief of the Divine Promiles, 2, 
Peter i. 4. 16.The Hope of a future Re- 
ward not inconfiftent with the Love of 
Wirtwe, 2s Tim. ive,7; 8. viz and 16. 
"Fhe Vulgar Opinion concerning the Du- 
ration of the Future Mifery examined, 
Rom. xii. 13. 19. A Caution to the 
préefent Age, Rom. xiv.16. 20./The Va- 
lediétory Difcourfe, Philip it. 15. 
This detail of the fubjeéts, handled in 
thele difcourfes, will give the reader an 
idea of the entertainment and infruction, 
which he may expect from the difeuffion of 
fuch interefting topics by a writer of in- 
genuity, ability, and liberality. Thefe 
Sermons had great weight with the Jate 
Dr, Stiles, Prefident of Yale College, in 
America, when, in’ his younger years, his 
mind was, for fome,time, in a f{ceptical 
ftate. They came the neareft of any wrie 
ter to his own cafe, and ftruck him as_ 
proceeding, with a few exceptions, in the 
moft’ fair and generous manner, and on 
conclufive reafonings. The author’s fo- 
Jutions, on the queftions relative to the 
cafes of the extirpation of the Canaanites, 
and the offering of Ifaac, were particular- 
ly fatisfaétory to him. 
Dr. Scott was, I apprehend, the firft 
writer, who examined and controverted, 
in Englifh, the Doétrine of the Eternity 
of Hell Torments ; for the learned Dr. 
Thomas Burnet’s Treatife was written in 
Eatin ; and Mr. Whifton’s Tra& on that 
Subject was not publifhed till the year 
2751: and Archbifhop Tillotfon and Dr. 
Whitby, though they treated the fubjects, 
and entered into the difficulties with which. 
it is clogged, prefumed it to be the doc- 
trine of the New Teftament, and did not 
venture to examine the foundations on 
which it was fuppofed to ftand. © 
Dr. Scott was well-known in his day, 
by the hand he had in feveral ingenious 
and tifeful publications. It indicated a 
benevolence of mind, that he was fond of 
children, and ftudious to. pleafe and in- 
gratiate himfelf with them; though, to 
whatever caufe it was owing, he did not 
fucceed in his endeavours to conciliate. 
their attachment. It was a peculiar trait 
of his charaéter, the writer of this has 
been informed, that he carried into all 
companies a difputatious turn of mind, 
the confequence, probably, of the polemi- 
cal debates in which he was engaged in 
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* Life of Prefident Stiles, p.45, 46. 
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fJan. I, 
early life, but which had the unhappy ef- 
fect of rendering his company and man- 
ners les pleafing and acceptable, and was 
a bar to fuccefs in his profeffional walk. 
The Rev. THomas. Scorrt, brother 
of the former gentleman, was the fecond 
fon of their father. He began his minif- 
try about 1733, at Loweftoffe, in Suffolk, 
where he had the honour of prefenting an 
Addrefs from the inhabitants of the town, 
to his Majefty, King George II. when, 
on-account of diftrefs of weather, he was | 
obliged to land atthat place, on his return 
from Hanover. In 1737, Mr. Scott re-. 
moved to Ipfwich, and was ordained Co- 
paftor \of the Prefbyterian Congregation, 
with Mr. Samuel Baxter, for whom_he 
preached and printed a Funeral Sermon. 
Mr. Baxter died in 1739, and Mr. Scott 
continued alone till 1761. — After this, fe- 
veral gentlemen were, in fucceffion, con~ 
nected with him, as affiftants, till July, 
1774. Being very much broken in health 
he then removed to Hapton, in Norfolk, « 
place confidered almoft as a finecure, 
though endowed with an eftate of Sol. per 
annum, and a. parfonage-houfe: here he 
finifhed his worthy courfe. be sar 
He publifhed feveral fingle Sermons, de-. 
livered on particular occafions, and a 
{mall volume of ‘* Lyric Poems, Devo-. 
tional and Moral.”’ But his chief work 
which remains a monument of his genius 
and learning, was ‘* The Book of Job in 
_Englith Verfe, tranflated from the original 
Hebrew, with Remarks, Hiftorical, Criti- 
cal, and Explanatory.” ‘This work came: 
to a fecond edition in'1774.° © 
The Rev. THomas Scott, fen. the 
father of the preceding gentlemen, was 
the fon of a worthy man, and ‘an eminent 
merchant, in London. He was firft fet- 
tled as Minifter of a Diffenting Congrega- 
tion at Hitchin, in Hertfordfhire, and. 
thence removéd to Norwich, where 
he was folemnly fettled as the ‘Paftor of 
the Independent Congtegation,' Otober 
13, 1709. He publifhed feveral ‘occafion- 
al Sermons, particularly one preached at 
Norwich, February 27, 1725-6, intitled, 
«* An Attempt to prove the Godhead of 
Chrift, by fettling the Senfe of a fingle 
Text, viz. John xx. 28." This difcourfe 
was accompanied with a recommendatory 
Preface by Dr. Watts. Mr. Scott finifh- 
ed his minifiry and his life at Norwich, 
and was buried in the meeting-place’ of 
the fociety, at the foot of the pulpit- 
fairs. A neat marble monument was 
ereéted to his memory, with this infcrip- 
tioR 
