tion, fuppofed to be drawn up by his fe- 
cond fon :— 
To the Memory of the Rev. Mr. T. Scott, 
Paftor of this church 37 years. 
Ob. 15 Nov. 1746, /Etat 66. 
Wife, without art; and learned, without 
pride 5 
Not vain of knowledge, nor morofe to hide. 
He liv’d for others ; and his god-like mind 
Knew no ambition, but to blefs mankind. 
His life was virtue, and his heart was zéal : 
Sinners his patients, and his feaft to heal, 
Sweet as his nature, from his gentle tongue, 
Perfuafion flow’d, and powerful was the fong. 
Much of his praife this temple can atteft, 
And Heaven hereafter will proclaim the reft. 
Dr. DanrEt ScoTT, brother in the 
half-blood of the Rev. Tinomas Scott, 
fen. was educated for the minifiry. He 
was a fellow-ftudent with Mr. Butler and 
Mr. Secker, afterwards eminent: prelates 
in the Church of England, under the 
Jearned Mr. Jones, at Tewkefbury, in 
Gloucefterfhire, from whofe feminary, he 
‘remoyed to Utrecht, in Holland, where he 
purfned his ftudies with indefatigable zeal, 
_and took his degree of Dodfor of Laws. 
While he was in this city, he faw reafon 
to change his opinion concerning the fub- 
je& and mode of baptifm,and, from a fenfe 
of duty, joined himfelf to a-church of 
the Mennonites or Baptifts. But he al- 
ways preferved and exercifed a liberal 
Catholic fpirit, which he exprefled by 
joining in Communion, as opportunity of- 
tered, with Chriftians of other denomina- 
tions. Though eminently qualified for 
the Chriftian miniftry, he was prevented 
from engaging in it by an invincible diffi- 
dence and exceffive modefty. On his re- 
‘turn to England, he fettled in London or 
Colchefter, and devoted his time and abi- 
lities to publifh various learned and ufetul 
treatifes. 
In 1725 appeared his ‘* Effay towards 
a Demontiration of the Scripture Tri- 
nity,”” without his name, dedicated to Dr. 
Waterland. It was generally afcribed to 
the learned Mr. James Pierce, of Exeter. 
The impreffion of this piece which could 
“not but bé obnoxious to the advocates for 
eftablifhed formularics, was fo f{peedily 
difpofed of as to raife the author’s fur- 
prife. But fufficient evidence foon offered 
to convince him, that the edition, with a 
view to (upprefs, rather than confute, the 
piece, had been bought up bya diftin- 
guifhed prelate, the Rev. Dr. Edmund 
Gibfon. In 1738, a fecond edition, with 
fome enlargements, was fent out from the 
prefs. It was foon difficult to be pro- 
- Cured, and there were ftrong grounds for 
Scraps.of Biography. 
‘his amazing diligence, critical fkill, 
StS 
fufpicion, if not ftrong evidence, that dif. 
honourable methods were taken to pre- 
vent the {pread of it. ‘The method, in 
this traét,|is clear and fimple. The 
terms pecular to the queltions difcuffed 
are defined with accuracy and Reina 
The conclujons advance by flow fteps: 
{pirit of canfour, humility, and integr oe 
is diffufed through it. There isa great, 
though mod(f, difplay of learning. But 
it may be thbught by fome, that the wor- 
thy author was not fo attentive to the 
idioms and peculiarities of the Scripture 
language, a} he had been converfant with 
the early writers of the Chriftian Church, 
A new edition of this Effay, freed from, 
the learned) quotations with which it 
abounded, was printed, fume years back, 
in r2mo.* |In 1741, Dr. Scott publithed 
«° A New Yerfion of St. Matthew’s Gof- 
pel, with C ue Notes; and an Exami~ 
nation of Dr. Mill’s Various Readings ;° 
a very lear “ and accurate per formiance, 
At the perfiafion of his dignified friends, 
Secker and Butler, to whom he dedicated 
his work, he publifhed, in 1745, in two 
volumes, folio, an ‘* Appendix to H. Ste~ 
phen’s Greek Lexicon ;”’ a’ monument of 
and 
precificn. “He lott feveral hundred pounds 
by this publication, and, by his clofe ap- 
plicaticn to it for. many years, broke his 
health ind fpirits.’ He was never mar- 
ried, aid died fuddenly, in a retirement 
near London, March 29, 1759. He was 
a gentlman of the greatett learning, criti- 
cal acunen, and exactnefs, of fignal gen- 
tlenefs ind tendernefs of fpirit, of a mot 
gentle obliging behaviour, and, which 
was ftil more to his honour, of the mote 
eminentpiety and devotion, integrity, and 
benevoliice. An ill ftate of health, the 
effect of too clofe application to tludy, 
obliged him for the laft years of his lite 
to fpend{ ome months in travelling, and re- 
fiding i; different parts of the kingdom, 
where ie could meet with agreeable 
friends ind acquaintance. He hada | Pale 
ticular eieem and affection for Dr. Dod- 
dridge, whofe ** Rife and Progrefs of Re- 
ligion,”’,was his conftant travelling-com- 
panioh.| ** Dr. Scott’s great piety and 
benevoleice led him to take peculiar nc 
tice of joung men, He laboured to form 
them toi tafte for reading and knowledge ; 
and, above all, to ¢herifh in them a feri- 
ous, dejout, humble, and candid {pirit : 
he neverconverfed with them upon any of 
his particular fentiments, or appeared fo- 
* Fron the Preface to which this Account 
of Dr. Diniel Scott is formed, 
licitous 
