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    Sir , J / pril 10 , 1825 . BEFORE I transcribe the extracts I alluded to in my last , ( p . 142 , ) 1 beg leave to prefix a brief sketch of the character of the author , by a

    gentleman not unknown to fbany of your readers , the late excellent William Rathbone , of Liverpool , who was well acquainted with Job Scott personally , and of whom he 3 ays , in his Narrative of Events in Ireland , among the Society called Quakers , p . 28 , " As a man and a minister he was esteemed and beloved , both in his native

    country , where his religious labours had been frequent and extensive , and also by those persons who had the opportunities of being acquainted with him in Europe .

    * 'In Ireland his visit was manifestly influential in producing * an expansion of mind , especially among those with whom his acquaintance was intimate . He was a man of strong natural

    abilities , of singular piety , and of exemplary dedication of heart to whatever appeared to him in the light of duty . He considered religious truth as a pearl of inestimable value ; hence he became accustomed to habits of

    frequent and serious reflexion ; and these habits he was desirous of encouraging in others . It was his belief , and the subject of his frequent regret , that the professors of the gospel generally , those of his own Society not excepted ,

    were too much in the practice of resting in forms and ceremonies—taking up their religion on trust—depending on the labours and experience of others—and too implicitly adopting their opinions .

    ** To counteract this tendency , and to excite a serious , diligent and individual search after truth , and a faithful attention to all its dictates ,, were the great objects of his ministry , conversation and epistolary correspondence .

    These , as well as the journal of his life , labours and religious experience , exhibited striking proofs of a mind desirous of penetrating beyond the surface , and accustomed to original and instructive views of truth .

    V It has , however , been greatly regretted by several of his friends , . that some controverted opinions , which are known to be at variance with those of his inaturer age , are published , without any comment , in the early part of

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    his joufnal ; and that several other passages , some of vvluch were peculiarly striking and energetic , are wholly suppressed . " I have made the following extracts from Job Scott ' s tract , entitled . * '

    Remarks upon the Nature of Salvation by Christ , " &c , which commences at p . 39 of the pamphlet , published under the peculiar circumstances described in my last .

    " -He" ( God , says Job Scott ) ' * never repeals a jot or tittle of the moral law to any , further than it is fulfilled in them . It can never pass away till it is fulfilled : and it is never further fulfilled than the state of transgression is removed , on account of which 5 t

    was added . * God is unchangeable / All the changeable dispensations result from , and are accommodated to , the different states of mankind . There never was but one \* ray of salvation ,

    nor of remission of sins . Could any thing else ever have answered this purpose but the birth , life and government of Christ in man , it would answer still , and as well now as ever .

    This was pointed to by the law and its ordinances , by John and his figurative and preparatory fcaptista , and , as far as the work of salvation was ever wrought in < aiiy age or dispensation , it was the work of God in Christ ; yet never was carried on and

    completed without the creature ' s consent and co-operation . "—Pp . 45 , 46 .- " Remission of past sins is equally , in all ages , the act of Divine grace ; It is the mercy of God , in and through Christ the begotten , his unchangeable nature , an attribute or excellency

    inseparable from the Divine Essence . He cannot retain anger , or opposition to a state not in opposition to him . Anger , as a passion , he has none ; he is always in himself the same , and always one . There is no twain in V . !» - ~ 4 5 j , T >^ . A It AQ < it TJT ^ ^ . ^ nmm \ t *> him 4748 —— cannot "

    ^~ -Pp . , . " He ( such is the purity and goodness of his eternal , unchangeable nature ) ifcake a sham invitation to any , und pass it upon them as a real atid sincere one ! As his proiiiise is yea and ameti for ever , bo is his call . AH have heard it ;

    but they have * not all obeyed / Rom * x . 16- The call is as real to him who does not , as to him who does obey . In ordfet- that we might be rational creatures , conscious of goad and evil ,

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    2 j 66 Character and Writings of J& $ Scott , the American Quaker .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/10/