Salvation by Christ

Job Scott (1751–1793) was one of the most theologically daring voices in American Quakerism. A Rhode Island farmer, schoolteacher, and traveling minister, Scott argued passionately that salvation was not a distant event accomplished once at Calvary, but a living, inward process — the birth of Christ in the soul of every person who yields to the divine Seed.

These essays, published posthumously in 1824, provoked intense controversy among Friends. Scott insisted that no outward profession of faith, no intellectual belief in Christ’s atonement, could substitute for the actual experience of regeneration. True justification, he argued, was inseparable from true sanctification — the real transformation of the person from within.

This Friends Illuminated edition presents Scott’s three major essays alongside selected extracts from his other theological writings, all rendered in clear modern English while preserving the force and passion of his original voice.