SCOTT, THOMAS, was born at Braytoft, in Lincolnshire, Feb. 16, 1747. Having received some amount of education, he was apprenticed, in his fifteenth year, to an apothecary and surgeon in Alford, in his native county ; but was, after a few months, dismissed in disgrace, and had to turn to the drudgery of a grazier's life, as an assistant to his father. Notwithstanding his difficulties and disadvantages, he applied for and obtained ordina tion in his twenty-sixth year, and was appointed to the united curacies of Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood. Reversing the ordinary course, he now entered himself at Clare Hall, Cambridge, to complete his education. After this he removed to the curacy of Ravenstone, where the great change in his spiritual life, described in the Force of Truth, took place. At the instance of the Rev. .1". Newton he accepted the curacy of Olney, left vacant by the removal of Mr. Newton to London (178x). In 1735 he became chaplain of the Lock Hospital, London ; and, in 1801, was appointed to the living of Aston-Sandford, Bucks, where he died April 16, 1821. Mr. Scott was a diligent
student and sound theologian of the moderate Cal vinistic school. He wrote and published many useful theological works, none of which requires notice here except that which he regarded as the grand business' of his life : The Holy Bible, CCM taining the Old and New Testaments, with Original .Arotes, Practical Observations, and copious Margi nal References. This work was begun in 1788, and published in parts. It went through four editions during Mr. Scott's lifetime, each edition being an improvement on the preceding. The fifth edition, which received the author's last corrections, was published after his death in 6 vols. 4to, 1822. Well received at first, it has been always popular. It contains much judicious exposition, and is cha racterised throughout by good sense and pious feeling. [COMMENTARY.1-I. J.