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and, while vifiting a few meetings a fecond time, he was taken ill of the fmall-pox, at the houfe of our friend Elizabeth Shackleton, in Ballitore, from whence he dictated a letter on the 14th of the 11th month, to his relations and friends; out of which, and an account taken by the Friends who attended him, we extract the following: he fays, 'I am now twenty'eight Irish miles from Dublin, entered five days into the small pox; I feel eafieft to addrefs you principally, that you may know my mind enjoys 'that which removes beyond all forrow. Of his children he says, "I with them to get a little more learning than fome of them are at prefent in the way of; and although I do not wifh much of the 'world's polish, yet it is, at this awful moment, my 'defire that they may not be brought up with much rufticity, for this I believe has not very often contributed either to civil or religious usefulness. My 'defire for my children's fubftantial growth in the 'truth, and strict adherence to all its difcoveries to to the clofe of their days, is by far my principal 'with for them. Out of the enjoyment of a good degree of this precious inheritance, I know of nothing in this world worth living for. Ye that know it, fuffer nothing I moft cordially befeech you, ever to divert your minds from an increafing and fervent purfuit after the fulness of it; even unto the measure and stature of the fulness of • Chrift.' At another time he faid, 'My fpirits are ' under little or no depreffion; perhaps I never saw, a time before, when all things not criminal were fo nearly alike to me in point of any disturbance · to the mind. When I verge a little towards fleep, I am all afloat, from the fate of my nerves, and forced immediately from beginning repofe; but through all, the foul feems deeply anchored in God:-adding, My heart feems melted within me in retrofpective view; all the former conflicts, however grievous in their time, are lighter now than vanity, except as they are clearly feen to have contributed largely to the fanctification of the foul; as they are remembered with awfulness and grati

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'tude before Him who has not been wanting to preferve through them all; and as they feem likely to introduce, before long, an exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' At another time he faid, 'It is the Lord that enables to coincide with his will, and fay amen to all the trials and conflicts he per'mits to attend us. My mind is centred in that which brings into perfect acquiefcence. There is nothing in this world worth being enjoyed out of 'the divine will.'

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He gave directions, that if he fhould go hence, every thing about his interment fhould be plain and fimple; expreffed his entire refignation to divine difpofal; and that he found nothing to ftand between him and the Fountain of everlafting love. At another time faid, 'I have no fear, for perfect love cafteth out all fear, and he that feareth is not perfected in love. His ftomach refufing all nourishment, and a hiccough coming on, he said, Do not force nature, let me pafs quietly away to the eternal in'heritance.' Soon after faid, 'I am waiting patiently to fee the falvation of God-do you wait patiently 'with me-I have no defire, nor the fhadow of a defire, to be reftored-I hope the doctors will foon 'find that they have done their part.' To one he faid, Thy being here has been an inexpreffible 'fatisfaction to me.' Afterwards faid, 'I have known fomething of that law of love whereby all boafting 'is entirely excluded; but I may fay, through that which has fupported me under all the trials and 'conflicts which have attended my paffage through life, to you my beloved friends, as to dear children, Follow me as I have endeavoured to follow Christ Jefus, the Lord of life and glory, and the Rock of "my eternal falvation.' We omit many other weighty and instructive expreffions of our beloved friend, which he uttered during his illness and till near his clofe, left this teftimony fhould extend beyond its proper limits. He quictly departed this life the 22d of the 11th month, 1793, at the houfe of our aforefaid friend Elizabeth Shackleton, at Ballitore, in Ireland; and we doubt not finished his course with

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joy, and is entered into the place of his reft, where the righteous fhine forth as the fun, in the kingdom of their Father.

Signed in and on behalf of faid monthly meeting, by

JOHN HOLDEN,
LYDIA ARNOLD,

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A Teftimony from the national half-year's meeting of Friends in Ireland concerning Job Scott, late of Providence, in the fate of Rhode-Island, &c. in America.

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T having pleased the Almighty to call, from works to rewards, this our beloved friend, we feel our minds engaged to give forth a teftimony concerning

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From genuine marks evinced in the courfe of his religious fervices, we believe him to have been an inftrument fitted and prepared by the great Mafter, through deep and repeated baptifm, for ufe and fervice in his church militant; called and fent forth by the immediate influences of his fpirit to publish the gofpel; and being preferved in an eminent degree, carefully attentive to the leadings thereof, the word of the Lord through him was often as a fire and as a hammer to break the rock in pieces.' Many were the bitter cups allotted him, in the difpenfations of unerring wifdom, which though hard to flesh and blood, yet he appeared not to fhrink therefrom; but in refignation to the divine will, and a furrender of his own, he was concerned to follow the Captain of his falvation, who was made perfect through fufferings--and thus, by abiding under the power of the crofs, he might well have adopted the language of the apostle, by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was beftowed on me was not in vain; but I laboured abundantly, yet not I, but 'the grace of God which was with me.'

He was a diligent waiter, to experience renewed qualification for fervice before he attempted to move

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either in the miniftry or in the tranfactions of the difcipline; as well knowing, that without a fresh anointing, any endeavours to act muft prove ineffectual, and tend to centre in lifelefs formality, against which he was zealously concerned to bear teftimony.

His conversation was coupled with fear, as well as feafoned with grace; and being deep in heavenly myf. teries, he was cautious of fquandering the fame, yet, when at liberty for converfation, his communications were agreeable, and remarkably inftructive.

He vifited the meetings of Friends in this nationalfo had much religious fervice among those not in profeffion with us, and was a fharp threshing inftrųment in the Lord's hand, against all who preached for hire and divined for money, being earneftly concerned to call the people off from dead works, that they might be brought to experience the efficacy of true religion in the newness of life.

In his last illness, at the house of our friend Elizabeth Shackleton, of Ballitore, he was much refigned, although the disorder, which proved the fmall-pox, lay heavy on him. He spoke of the things of God, and thofe that appertain to his kingdom, yet was very modeft and diffident of his labours to promote them in the hearts of the people; but gave evident marks of his peace of mind, and affurance that he had no doubt of a manfion of reft prepared for him, where the wicked ceafe from troubling, and where the weary are at reft, experiencing great ferenity and compofure even as a morning without clouds.

He departed this life the 22d of 11th mo. 1793, aged upwards of 42 years, and has left an example which Ipeaks loudly to us his furvivors, follow me, as I have followed Chrift.'

Signed in, by order, and on behalf of our halfyear's meeting for the nation of Ireland, held in Dublin, the ift of 5th mo. 1794, by

JAMES FISHER, Clerk to the mens' meeting.

ANNA SHANNON, Clerk to the womens' meeting.

JOURNAL

OF THE

LIFE AND TRAVELS

OF

JOB SCOTT.

CHAP. I.

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His birth and parentage. The early impreffions of truth on his mind. On children in general. feries of vifitations of divine love. His frequent tranfgreffion, trials about water-baptifm, predef tination, &e.

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ORASMUCH as it hath pleafed divine wifdom to lead and conduct my foul through many, various and afflictive dispensations; as well as through fome very comfortable enjoyments; giving me to partake largely of afflictions; bearing up my mind through them; bringing me forth again and again rejoicing, after scenes of deep diftrefs; and wonderfully preferving me through fome very deep, and perhaps fomewhat unufual probations, in my travel towards the land of reft; I feel, and have often felt, an engagement of mind to leave behind me fome memorandums in commemoration of his gracious dealings with me from my youth.

I was born, according to the best account I

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