A
Letter from a Friend in America, to Luke Howard, of Tottenham, near
London, in which the Character of our late Friend, Job Scott, is
Vindicated and Defended, And his Doctrines shown to be consistent with
Scripture and sound reason. In reply to a letter addressed by Luke
Howard to the Author. Np: Np, 1826. First Edition. [374]
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An anonymous pamphlet
published in defense of the recently-deceased American Quaker Job
Scott. Luke Howard, a fellow Quaker of London, published a pamphlet
critical of Scott, both of his person and of his doctrine. Our author
defends Scott against the charges of Luke Howard and in particular
defends Scott's book Salvation by Christ.
Job Scott
(1751-1793), b. Providence, Rhode Island; d. Ballitore, Ireland. Scott
was possibly the most prominent American preacher of the Society of
Friends, or Quakers, in the last quarter of the 18th century. He
traveled extensively, was much respected, and was considered a mystic or
extreme pietist in his views and practice. Scott was orthodox in his
views of the deity of Christ and of the inspiration of the Bible. His
unguarded writings caused a controversy among the Friends, especially
that in which he described the soul of a Christian to a "mother" and the
Seed of the Father (Christ) is sowed in the soul so that Christ is
formed within. Scott himself wrote later that some of his writings gave
him apprehension, and that perhaps they were not well thought out.
"Scott
was the last major American Quaker to equally represent the dual
spiritual threads in Quakerism, those of the inward Light and Scripture,
before the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split at Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting." - wikipedia.