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be incompatible and indeed offensive : therefore , in March , 1769 , he sold his commission , having , in the preceding year , ' married Mis 3 Elizabeth Clay , of Wollerton , near Dray ton , Shropshire , with whom he gained a handsome estate . Captain Scott now became a
popular preacher among his party . His zeal never cooled . He introduced the Methodist doctrine into many places in _Shropshire , Lancashire , and other counties , where it had not been before known . He was eulogized by Whitfield > and by his recommendation introduced into the tabernacle pulpit , which
in his turn he filled for upwards of 20 years . He was ordained at Lancaster , I 776 , as " a Presbyter or teacher , at large . His fir _£ t settlement was at Wollerton on his wife ' s estate , -but having built a chapel at Drayton and raised a considerable congregation there , he in
3 , little time removed to that place . About the year 1779 , ne became inti _* matcly acquainted with the late . Lady Glenorchy . This lad y devoted " the whole of her property to charity and the support of what she considered
_gospel-preaching . In the captain she found-a counsellor and assistant , and tohim much of her charity was intrusted She _assisted him in . most of his _religious schemes . One of her best works was
the " establishment of an academy for young ministers at Oswestry _, under the able direction of Mr . Wiliiams , now Doctor , and tutor of the Independent Academy at R 0 theram , Yorkshire . Her ladyship'died in 1786 , bequeathing to her rcjigious friend , the Captain , a house and the chapel at Matlock , and a considerable
turn of money , lie removed to Matlock , 1794- His wife died lamented b y him , 1 799 5 and in 1802 , he married a econd time , to the widow of the late S _^ Barrow , Esq . who survives him . After his second marriage he resided and preached alternately at Nantvvi . h and _JVIatlock . In the early part ofhis
ministry , he had been accustomed to travel from 18 to 20 miles on a Sunday , and to preach five or six times a week . . Latterly , he wa _> obligee ? to slacken his exertions , though his zeal was unabated . He preached however till the en el of life . Captain Scoit possessed many virtues . tie was charitable , frank and _upright . _flis character had a strong colouring of
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oddity . He was very facetious . His drollery "was out of place in the pulpit , but it constituted the charm of his preach * ing _amongst the populace . His prayers were sometimes ludicrously strange . He often prayed publicly for his hor _^ c .
He had , as might be expected _^ a horror of unsound doctrines - ; hut it was not in his nature to be bitter , and his manners , -which were gentlemanly , controlled ) the effects of his _prescriptive creed . He has left imitators _arnongst the _Methodins , who would do well to copy rather his virtues than his eccentricities . Wees *
teem good men of every party , and are happy in paying this tribute of respect to a man , who when living would have rejected our praise with indignation . _QOct . 1 , in the 626 year of his age , at his seat near the Schuylkill , General PETER . MUHLB _. NBURG _, son of the
late Rev _^ Pr . Henry Muhlenburg , _Patriarch of the German J _^ utheran Chu _, rch , in Pennsylvania . At the _suggestion of the father the son became a _d minister of the . Episcopal Church , in which capacity he acted in an acceptable manner in Virginia until _xyy 6 _^ _vrhcn he'became a member of the Convention and after *
wards _CploneT _^ of a Regiment of that state , Iri 1777 ; fie became Brigadier , and afterwards Major General in the Revolutionary Aimy . On the peace of 178 3 he was chosen by his fellow citizens of Pennsylvania , of which he was a native , to fill in succession , the stations of Vice President of the
_Exccflitive _. Council , Member of the House of Representatives , and _Senator of the United States , a _, nd in all his military and political stations , Gen . M . acted faithfully to his country , and honourably to hinvelf . He was brave in . iheRdd _, anc _|
firm in the cabinet . In private life lie was ju _^ t , in _{ iis domestic and social atn tach meats affectionate and sincere , aod in his intercourse with his friends and
flpr _* ow-citizens amicafclc and unassum-Oct . 2 , at _Alyel-stpkc , Hants , oi which h [ c was Rector , the Rev . JOHN STURr GES , D , D . prebendary of Winchester _^
chancellor of that c _( io , cese , and _chapliio to the _king . He wa $ f _^ hcr of Mr . Siur _^ cs Bourne , one of the . Lords 0 / the Treasury . Dr . S , w _^ _is of New Col-. le _^ c _^ Oxford . Hi * , writings discover aft
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/42/
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