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 14t&amp;gt; OUR HYMNS :

THOMAS SCOTT.

DIED ABOUT 1776.

&quot; Hasten, O sinner, to be wise.&quot; No. 492.

THIS writer must not be confounded with the well-known com mentator who nourished a generation later. The subject of this sketch was the son of a dissenting minister at Norwich, and a nephew of Dr. Daniel Scott, an eminent minister and author. He was born at Norwich, where he received his early education. In the early part of his ministerial life he resided at Wartmell, near Harleston, in Norfolk, and kept a boarding-school, preach ing once a month at Harleston. About 1733 he settled in the ministry at Lowestoft, in Suffolk. But finding the air too keen for his delicate constitution, he removed in 1737 to be co-pastor with Mr. Baxter, minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Ipswich, and in the year 1740 he succeeded to the sole pastorate on the death of Mr. Baxter. This he continued till 1761, and then with assistance held his position till 1774. At that time his health became so enfeebled that he found it necessary to resign his position at Ipswich. But he still exercised his ministry at Hupton, in Norfolk, till the time of his death about two years after.

Mr. Scott was the author of &quot;A Father s Instructions to his Son, 1718,&quot; a pleasing and affectionate poem, full of wise and weighty advice to his son ; also of &quot; The Table of Cebes; or, the Picture of Human Life, in English verse, with notes, 1754.&quot; This is a poem full of high-toned morality, describing in a graphic manner the snares and mistaken principles of life, and suggesting the true principle and way. He also published some sermons and &quot; Lyric Poems and Hymns, devotional and moral, 1773.&quot; His largest work is &quot; The Book of Job, in English verse ; trans lated from the original Hebrew, with remarks historical, critical, and explanatory, 1771;&quot; second edition, 1774, a work valued

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