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for supplying the congregations at Stone and Stafford (where chapels were built through the exertions of ministers connected with Mr. Scott) and various congregations in that neighbourhood. In this seminary two eminently pious and useful ministers, who are now reaping the reward of their labours, viz. the Rev. James Garie, late of Perth, and the Rev. John Reece, late of Sheffield, received their education.

In or about the year 1791, Mr. Scott removed to Matlock. Here the Lord gave him new seals to his ministry, and greatly revived the cause of religion in that place.

On the 31st of December, 1799, Mr. Scott lost his most excellent wife. This was indeed a most severe affliction; but God graciously remembered, supported, and comforted him in the day of his calamity and trouble. The exercises of his mind on the mournful occasion may be best expressed in his own words. In a letter to an intimate friend, dated January 15, 1800, he says, "Had not the Lord appeared for us and to us, as our refuge and strength, and very present help in our late, long, and deep affliction and trouble, the floods would have overwhelmed us, and we should have sunk in the mighty waters; but Jehovah is his memorial in all generations. Had I ten thousand tongues, I could not utter the thousandth part of the truth and faithfulness, the goodness and the mercies of the Lord to my dearest earthly treasure in her affliction, and to me his poor, sinful, and worthless worm. He knew our feeble frames, and remembered we were but dust; therefore, he did not always contend, nor keep his anger for ever, lest the spirits he had made and taught to hope in his mercy in Jesus should fail before him; but as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitied us, and suffered not his compassions to fail. I may say indeed, he made the bed of my dearest in her sickness, and strengthened her by his Word and Spirit on her bed of languishing. The Lord never once suffered the Enemy of Souls to take the advantage of her weakness, nor permitted her faith and hope in his word, his faithfulness, and his Christ, utterly to fail. He enabled her to cast

* Mr. Garie prosecuted his studies with much diligence and success. He was ordained Minister of a Dissenting Congregation in Plunket Street, Dublin. There he officiated for five years with much reputation and usefulness. Thence he removed to Perth. His letters of ordination were sustained by the Presbytery of Chanonry, and he officiated for two years as a Minister of the Church of Scotland; and the people unanimously desired for him their pastor: but he was not established in the living, the General Assembly voting him ineligible to a charge in the Church of Scotland, not because he was destitute of talents and qualifications for the ministry, but because he had not gone through a regular course of University Education. Reasons of dissent from the sentence of the General Assembly were drawn up and signed by Dr. Kemp, Dr. B. Johnston, &c. See the Protestant Dissenters' Magazine for February, 1799. After Mr. Garie was

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ejected from the Church of Scotland, he settled with a Dissenting Congregation at Perth; and God greatly prospered his ministry.

the anchor of her hope on her eternal Rock, so that the winds and waves of her affliction beat hard upon the poor shattered vessel, her body; yet the immortal treasure within was not greatly moved." In a letter to another friend, dated February 21, 1800, he says, "You may conceive something, but very little of what I feel in my present situation, where every object that surrounds me, and especially some things that more particularly claim my attention, remind me afresh continually, and always keep upon my mind my late great loss, open my wound, and make it bleed afresh; but, blessed be God, in Jesus, his Spirit and Word, there is a balm for every wound, and a cordial for our fears; and when by faith view my dearest earthly treasure, who had so long made the Lord her refuge, and found Him to be her strength and present help in times of trouble, now no more groaning in her earthly tabernacle, being burdened with sins and diseases, but made perfectly whole, holy, and happy in the presence of her lovely fedeemer and Saviour, giving him love, thanks, and endless praise, cease to mourn; I begin to give thanks and glory on her account; but cannot cease to bemoan myself, for my loss is great; but I sorrow not as those who have no hope, but trusting, I myself am a patient in Christ's hospital; I live in hopes of soon being in the land where the inhabitant is no more sick, but sings Hallelujah to God and the Lamb for ever and ever, for forgiving all his sins, healing all his diseases, and crowning him with everlasting love!"

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The advantages and comforts which Mr. Scott enjoyed in the married state were very great; and his situation, when a widower, was proportionably desolate and melancholy. He was indeed quite unfitted for those labours and exertions which he wished still to pursue, while domestic concerns divided his time and attention. He saw it prudent to marry a second time; and the Lord gave him a most suitable partner in the relict of the late S. Barrow, Esq. to whom he was united on the 10th of June, 1802. After his second marriage, he resided and preached alternately at Nantwich and Matlock. In the early part of his ministry he had been accustomed for many years to travel much, frequently from 18 to 20 miles on the Lord's Day; and to preach five or six times a week. In his old age it was impracticable for him to continue such exertions; but his zeal for the cause of the Redeemer never forsook him. Still he was most willing to labour in the work of the Lord; and he was enabled with frequency to preach until near the time of his death.

On the 12th of April last, Mr. Scott administered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to the church at Nantwich. This was the last public service he performed. His heart was evidently much enlarged on the occasion, and a peculiarly sweet savour attended the exercise. Addressing himself to the minister who preached on that day, he said, "O how sweet is the Sabbathday! May the Lord bless you, my brother, and give you to

feel in your heart some of the sweet drops of his love, that you may give it to us warm from the heart!" After the service, he said, "O my poor hard heart! May the Lord soften it! I hope I did feel a little softening to-day."

On Lord's Day, the 10th of May, he was enabled, for the last time, to attend public worship. On the following Friday he was very ill, and felt the symptoms of approaching dissolution; but, through abundant grace, felt those symptoms without dismay. On lying down, he said, "I am lying down on my dying bed; and 1 bless God that I am free from either pain or dread on this my dying bed."-- On Saturday, May 16, in the presence of Mary (a servant) he said, "Into thine hands, O God, I commit my dear wife and dear friend! - into thine hands I commit poor Mary!

"Weak as helpless infancy
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He was asked if he had much pain: his reply was, pain of body, nor terrors of mind." Lord's Day, May 17, to James (a servant) he said, "James, I am going to spend an eternal Sabbath!" Frequently he said, "Men shall be blessed in Him!" In Him he often repeated; and emphatically added, "No blessing out of Him, mind you that." He frequently exclaimed," Precious Jesus! precious Jesus! Jesus is precious to me! On Tuesday, the 19th, to a minister who visited him, he said, "When you preach, my brother, bring it all out at once: don't keep it as men keep a new guinea, all to the Jast." When one observed, that those around his bed were highly privileged, by hearing his dying testimony to the truth, and expressed a hope that they should profit thereby, - he sharply replied, "I do not know that. Poor Benjamin (mean. ing a servant, a good man, who died in his house) prayed with them, and talked with them very faithfully; but some of them soon forgot it all, which I was sorry to see. Shortly after, he said to a minister present, "Use your tongue, brother, for the glory of God. Bring the people to Christ at once, and tell them simply what you know of Him; and may the Lord bless you!” Waking suddenly in the course of the night, and seeing a female friend weeping, he said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves." On an occasion, when he seemed to look earnestly around, Mrs. Scott said to him, I am here, love, what do you want?' He replied, "I want nothing but Jesus!" She added, You have Heaven in your countenance :' he rejoined, “I have more than that, my love: I have it in my heart, and that's better!" At another time he said, looking earnestly up, "Into thy hands I commit my body and spirit, which thou hast redeemed." Seeing Mrs. Scott much affected, he said," Make the Lord thy refuge. You must all come to the blood of sprinkling: I believe you have. My dear love, I commit thee into the hands of Jesus, with all thy weighty concerns!"

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At another time, he said, "The Lord sees my heart, and I know that his eye is upon me: I am the chief of sinners. I declare myself, that I am the chief of sinners! Let nothing be said of me, but that I am the chief of sinners!" Addressing Mrs. Scott, he said, "I hope you can give me up to the Lord." She replied, Yes, my love, the Lord is so gracious to you, I hope I do.'He said, "Do not tell a lie; no, not for the sake of thy dear husband: you must give me up." On the 20th of May, to a minister who had to go out into the country that evening to preach, he said, "Brother, go and tell them I am going to Heaven; but all who die out of Christ will go to Hell. Tell them all I am dying, and going to Heaven!" To another minister he said, "God bless you in Christ for ever and ever! - but I am weak.

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May he keep you under the shadow of his replied, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever!" When one said, Good Sir, do take some refreshment,' he replied, "Don't call me good; I wish we may all see more of the poverty and emptiness of the creature, and more of the riches and fulness of the dear Redeemer!" On Thursday the 21st, to a servant he said, " God bless thee in his dear Son! He has blest me! Jesus hath lived and died for me!" Saturday the 23d, looking up to Heaven, he said, “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Mrs. Scott replied,' He does hold you up!' He added," Precious Jesus!"- Sunday the 24th, he said, with peculiar emphasis, "The Lord is my righte ousness and strength, my strength and my Redeemér!" On a friend saying, Take a drop of wine into your dear mouth,' · he replied, "It is a dear mouth, for it was purchased with precious blood!" Monday evening, the 25th, he was enabled triumphantly still to exclaim, " Blessed blood of the Lamb! blessed blood of the Lamb!"-On Wednesday afternoon, the 27th, he was very weak, and unable to speak. Some of his friends spent a few minutes with him in prayer: he appeared to listen, and manifested marks of approbation. At one time he said, “O tell poor sinners what a sweet and precious Christ I have found, or rather, that has found me.

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What a dear Saviour I have found!
I'll point to thy redeeming blood,
And say, Behold the way to God!"

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At another time he said, "I am the chief of sinners; but the Lord saith, I have redeemed thee, thou art mine!" To Mrs. Scott he said, "My dear, I have no pain either in body or mind: I am not afraid of dying. He who was dead is alive again, and liveth for ever! "Because I live, saith he, ye shall live also." At another time he said, "Jesus loved me, and I cannot tell

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cause he would love me.

once for all, mind that.

His blood did once for all atone;"Once done, not to be done again.".

On taking to his bed the last time, he said,

"Weaker than a bruised reed,

Help I ev'ry moment need !"

At length the days of the years of his pilgrimage being accomplished, the Lord, whom he had served, called him home, without a sigh, a struggle, or a groan. His happy spirit left its mortal tabernacle a little before eleven o'clock, on Thursday morning, the 28th of May, to take its station among the spirits of the redeemed, before the throne of God and the Lamb for ever. On Tuesday, the 9th of June, his body was interred in a vault within the Protestant Dissenting chapel, in Queen Street, Chester. Here the remains of the late Mrs. Scott also lie, agreeable to a direction he had given, by the Rev. J. Whitridge, of Oswestry.

We will conclude this Memoir of Mr. Scott with a brief sketch of his character. His character was certainly a great one, as it embraced an assemblage of many excelleut endowments. If the natural warmth of his temper and the original habits of military command gave a sternness and severity to his reproofs, they added at the same time a genuine fervour to his piety, and a dignity to his religion. He was no cold-hearted or half-hearted Christian, but walked before his God with an upright mind; and (which strongly manifests the strength and reality of religious affections) in his age he displayed, both in his public and private life, all the zeal and vigour of youth. The strength of his picty and his zeal for the spread of the gospel, continued without any abatement to the last. A very short time before his death, he united with his brethren in the establishment of an Association for promoting the Spread of the Gospel in the County of Chester; and liberally contributed to the fund of that Association.

Liberality was one of his conspicuous graces. It is believed, that through a long series of years, perhaps embracing the entire period of his religious course, he never employed less than the whole of his own proper income (the necessary expences of his

The following information, confirmed by ancient records in the family, came to hand too late for insertion in its proper place. "Richard Scott, father of the late Rev. Jonathan Scott, was a younger sou ofScott, of Scott's Hall, Kent; and married Mary, the eldest daughter and heiress of Jonathan Scott, of Betton, Salop (who was also a branch of the Kentish family). The Scotts, of Scott's Hall, trace their descent from John Baliol, King of Scotland, who, on his being driven from that kingdom, settled in Keut, and was known by the name of Ba lol, the Scot. In course of time, the family dropped the name of Baliol, retaining only that of scott, as to this day."

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