"I had scarcely got into the house to prepare for my visitant, when she came to me and said, I am very sick: what must I do?' I said, You must pray for patience.' She asked, 'What is patience?' and before I could answer, she was so ill that she could only go into the next room to the servant, where the most violent symptoms followed. As I was engaged with my friend, and with the preaching, having ordered her some medicines, I did not see her for several hours: but when I did I was fully convinced that her sickness was fatal. Some further means were used, but wholly without effect; and she expired at ten o'clock the next morning, while repeating the Lord's prayer, the concluding words of which were the last she spoke. "Her disorder was an attack of scarlet fever, which Dr. Kerr stated to be of a very peculiar kind, and that the case was hopeless from the first. I had attended fifty or sixty persons in that disease, and all recovered except my own child. "She died on the Thursday morning, and on the next evening at my lecture at Ravenstone, where I had undertaken to preach through part of the book of Job, the text which came in course was Job i. 21, The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! and on this I preached notwithstanding the death of my child. It would be in vain to attempt to describe either my anguish or my exultation on this trying, yet animating occasion. Sorrow and joy succeeded each other in the highest degree, and often in the most rapid manner, that I ever experienced: and sometimes they were pathetically, dolefully, yet sweetly intermingled. Prayer and thanksgiving seemed my main employment. I never obtained such a victory over the fear of death as by looking, for a long time together, on her corpse. Gradually sorrow abated, and joy prevailed; and I often said, I would not exchange my dead child for any living child in the world of the same age. Some have told me that her religious turn was only the effect of her hearing so much on the subject, and had nothing so extraordinary in it: but I never could see any thing of the same kind in my other children at so early an age, nor till they were much older; though they had at least the same advantages.” THE ENTIRE WORKS OF THE LATE REV. THOMAS SCOTT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HIS COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. MANY applications having been lately made for complete sets of Mr. Scott's Works, and several persons having already given their names as Subscribers for an uniform edition, it is intended, immediately on the completion of a list of Subscribers which will guarantee the necessary expense, to put such an edition to the press. The following are the principal works to be contained in it: I. The Force of Truth. II. Theological Treatises: viz. Discourse on Repentance-Warrant and Nature of Faith in Christ-Treatise on Growth in Grace-Sermon on Election and Final Perseverance-Twenty-five Essays on the most Important Subjects in Religion-Bunyan's Pilgrim with Original Notes. III. Sermons, upwards of Forty in Number. IV. The Rights of God-Vindication of the Divine Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures-Scripture Doctrine on Civil Government and the Duties of Subjects. V. Defence of Evangelical Doctrines concerning Original Sin, Free-will, Divine Grace, Regeneration, Justification, Redemption, Election, &c.; in reply to the Bishop of Winchester's "Refutation of Calvinism"History of the Synod of Dort-Discussion on the principal Questions between the Jews and Christians, in Reply to Rabbi Crool--Letters on Conformity to the Church of England, &c. VI. Family Prayers and numerous detached Papers. The whole will extend to Eight or Ten Volumes, printed in the same manner as "the Life" of the Author: and the Price to Subscribers will not exceed Five Guineas. It is desirable that those persons who intend to subscribe should forward their names as soon as possible, that any further delay may be rendered unnecessary. When the Work is commenced, a volume will be published every two months till it is completed. Names will be received by the Rev. J. Scott, Hull; the Rev. T. Scott, Gawcott, Buckingham; the Rev. B. Scott, Great Harborough, Rugby, Warwickshire; and by L. B. Seeley, 169, Fleet-Street, London, and all other Booksellers. Abhor, Mr. Scott's prayer, 'Not to be Bacon, Lord, 659. abhorred of God,' 531. Acts, test, 308: conventicle, 332: late Adam, fall of, 107. Advice, on giving and receiving, 220 -222. Affections, tenderness of Mr. Scott's, Amusements, Mr. Scott's estrangement Anxiety, to be discarded, 460. Asperity, guarded against, 418. Aston Sandford, living of, 365, 366: Athanasian Creed, 84, 502. Austen, Lady, 161–164. Aylesbury, Bible Society, 386. Baptism, of Infants, 164-167, 177: Barneth, Rev. J. C., sermon on, 379. Birmingham, 214: riots at, 306. Bristol, 240, 377, 425, 428. Brown, Lancelot, Esq. 31: Rev. D., Browne, Rev. Moses, 159, 215. Buckden, 33, 35, 366. Buckinghamshire, account of, 37, 57. 435: Mr., letter to, 495: Miss, let- 2 x 6 Candour, Mr. Scott's, 202, 206. Cecil, Rev. R., 14, 227, 315, 425, 607: Chalmers, Rev. Dr., 470. 369: a particular mode of, 604. Children, death of, 128, 129, 345, Christ, preciousness of, 558: extent of his redemption, 253, 646, 654. Clergyman, interview with one, 124: College, letters to one at, 328-335. 332. Concordance, (see Index :) Cruden's, 491. Conformity, Mr. Scott's letters on, 444. Conyers, Rev. Dr., sermon on, 245. Copleston, Rev. Dr., on Mr. Scott, 659. Cowper, W., Esq., his residence at Creaton, Northamptonshire, 174. : Daughter, Mr. Scott's eldest, 80, 127, David, mourning for Absalom, 467. Dawes, Mr., 380: Mr. W. R., 524, Death-bed scenes, 515, 516. Depravity, conviction of, 501. Dinner party, discussions at, 234, 243. Conversion, means of Mr. Scott's, 12. Discouragement, of ministers, 217, |