I have even declined some offers made me.. ..... I hope mine will be considered as an adjudged case, to encourage faith in God's providence, in those who are employed in his work."

To myself, again, February 17, 1814: "I really expected, at first, little more than to dispose of two or three hundred copies of the works, and I never intimated a desire of further help than in that way. You have heard what I received from Mr. S... ... Since then, money has been sent me, with the most cordial respectful letters, from persons of whom I never heard: among the rest, 201. from a quaker. Offers were made of raising more, if I desired it; which I declined. Probably all the copies of the works will be sold. I do not now owe anything which I cannot pay on demand-what I never could say since you were born! and I have something in hand, and shall receive more, besides the works. So you see that, if I have too little regarded such matters while my need was not urgent, when it is how easily the Lord can do more for me, than all my plans could have done in a course of years; and in a manner which tends to make my publications more known and circulated; and, I verily believe, without in any degree deducting from my character. Oh that this may make me ashamed of all my distrust and dejection! and that it may encourage you, and many others, to go on in the work of the Lord, without anxiety on this ground! Serve him by the day, and trust him by the day: never flinch a service because nothing is paid for it: and when you want it in reality, you or your's, he will pay it. David Brown did much gratis in India: the East India Company

raised a monument for the old bachelor Swartz: but they made provision for Mr. B.'s large family!....

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Among other things, I received a most friendly letter from Mr. Richardson, inquiring into my circumstances, of which friends at York had received some report. I stated, that I had all and abounded, and did not wish to trouble my friends further, except as subscribers to the works. But I, next letter, received 1157. as a present!-I have had 350/. from Bristol, where I thought my rudeness had given offence; besides orders for a hundred copies of the works!"

Another letter to my brother, ten days afterwards, states that Mr. Cooke had remitted 2007. more from Bristol! and my father adds in a postscript,

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February 25, 1814. I have received at least 20007. as presents in little more than two months, besides the sale of books!! You see how easily God can provide. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. You cannot do a better service to the world, than by bequeathing to it a well-educated family. Let this be your care, the rest will be the Lord's."

The letter, above referred to, to the late Mr. Richardson is now before me. It adds nothing, in point of information, to the facts already stated: yet it will furnish an extract or two, which will not be uninteresting. It is dated January 14, 1814, and begins as follows:-"Your very friendly and pleasing letter found me ill in bed, of a fever, occasioned, I believe, by the severity of the weather. It has confined me a week to my room, and most of the time to my bed; but is, through the mercy of our God, now gone off; though it leaves me extremely

weak. This has no connexion with my local malady, which does not, at present, affect my general health, nor greatly interrupt my labours at home, though it - makes them much more uneasy and wearying. It seems at a stand: but cure must not be expected....

"It is not agreeable to our proud hearts to become, in any way or manner, beggars: but my relief has I been sent on such a general hint, and with such soothing tokens of respect and affection, as more than compensate all: and I only want, to crown the whole, a heart deeply and humbly thankful to God, and to those into whose hearts he has put it thus to help me...

"Next month I enter my sixty-eighth year: but I have always had a bad constitution, and seldom a year without fevers, (often dangerous;) besides asthma and other complaints: so that I am a wonder to myself.Suffering and weariness must be my portion here: but I hope that my strength will be equal to my day, my consolation to my tribulation. We shall not meet on earth but it will not be long, I trust, before we meet in heaven; and then, face to face, and not by pen and ink, I will speak with thee.' In the mean time, let us pray for each other; let us enter into the spirit of my new year's text, Eccles. ix. 10, Whatsoever thy hand, &c.; and let us bless God, that we leave the state of religion in Britain, and on earth, more promising than we found it. Praying that this dawn may shine more and more until the glorious day of the millennium, I am your faithful friend and brother, THOS. SCOTT." Referring to the same illness spoken of in this letter, my sister says, February 21, "I had a perilous

' Mr. Richardson died one month after my father.

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journey to Aston during the snow, to see my father in his late illness; but was rewarded by his conversation, which was remarkably animated and interesting."

We now proceed to detail the history of the remaining years of his labours. They will be found, perhaps, more bare of incident than those which preceded them. He was during the whole term a prisoner in the immediate neighbourhood of his home, and almost entirely within his own village. The main point, in addition to giving an account of the productions of his pen, will be to display the temper of his mind, and the spirit by which he was actuated; which acquire an increasing interest as we approach his latter end, and see them still sustained, or rather raised yet higher, amidst daily accumulating infirmities.

In the early part of the year 1814, we find him turning his attention, and with all his wonted vigour, to a subject which was in a great measure new to him, the question between Jews and Christians. This was in consequence, as he tells us in the preface to the work which he afterwards published upon it, of a copy of Rabbi Crooll's" Restoration of Israel," being forwarded to him by the Committee of the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews," with a request that he would answer it." He understood "the same to have been done to a few other persons;' and, "being fully engaged at the time," he, after looking slightly into the book, laid it aside, feeling "not at all inclined to undertake the service." "But being somewhat less engaged, at the beginning of the following year," (1814,)" he again took up the copy

and read it more attentively; purposing, if not too late, to make some short remarks on particular passages, and communicate them to any one, who, he should learn, was preparing an answer. In attempting this, however, the whole concern appeared to him in a new light; and he perceived, that, by this work an opening was given to the zealous friends of Christianity, and cordial friends of the Jews, to bring the whole subject in controversy, between Christians and Jews, before the public and the nation of Israel." The consequence was the production within the year, of an octavo volume, containing Crooll's work, and an answer to it, in which all the principal points at issue are discussed.

Some observations relative to this work may deserve to be extracted from his correspondence while employed upon it.

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February 14, 1814. In deeply engaged in the controversy between Jews and Christians, and in answering a book by R. Crooll, Hebrew teacher at Cambridge. It is my object to draw forth the Jews from their lurking holes to fair argument: and I mean to discuss every important question concerning the Messiah of the Old Testament, on the ground of the Old Testament only. I think I shall bring forth much original matter on many topics. I shall at least furnish materials to future workmen.-I have in contemplation also to condense the remarks on the • Refutation of Calvinism' into one volume, stating the argument briefly, without extraneous matter."

This was at a time when he had been confined "five Sundays from church, three by sickness, and