1864 THOMAS SCOTT. Abolitionist's Commentary on Scripture. Influenced John Newton, Wilberforce, etc. Ephemera "We ought to hold fast

"We ought to hold fast & be well grounded in [our profession]

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1864 THOMAS SCOTT. Abolitionist's Commentary on Scripture. Influenced John Newton, Wilberforce, etc. Ephemera "We ought to hold fastA very attractive set of the complete commentaries of Thomas Scott [1747 1821], long time friend of John Newton, under whose sway he became an evangelical. He was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, influenced William Wilberforce and William Carey, was a noted abolitionist, etc., It is perhaps not accidental that his commentary was published in the heat of the Civil War, just after the Emancipation Proclamation, and that it was known