Salvation by Christ
Job Scott's controversial theological essays arguing that salvation is an inward, experiential process — not merely a historical transaction at Calvary.
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- Modernized English
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This edition
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- Time to read3.5 hours
- Length50,624 words
- Files1 EPUB, DRM-free
How we get 3.5 hours
This figure is here so you can compare one book against another. Every title on the site is timed from its own word count at the same reading speed — nothing is adjusted book by book — so if this edition says 3.5 hours and another says half that, the second one really is about half the reading. It is a measure of size, in the way a page count is. Your own pace is your own: at the speeds typical adult readers actually manage, this edition runs anywhere from 2.8 hours to 4.8 hours.
What is in this edition
| Modernized text | 48,898 words |
|---|---|
| Introduction, chapter summaries and notes written for this edition | 1,726 words |
| Total | 50,624 words |
The introduction, the chapter summaries and the notes on people, places and unfamiliar terms were written for this edition. They are 1,726 of the 50,624 words above, and they are part of what you are buying.
Counted from the text of the EPUB you receive. Navigation, the title page, the table of contents and the licence page are excluded — they are packaging, not reading.
The reading rate
238 words per minute, for adult silent reading of non-fiction, applied unchanged to every title on the site. We did not pick the number; it is the pooled result of a published meta-analysis. Nothing is adjusted book by book — that consistency is what makes two of these figures worth comparing.
Brysbaert, M. (2019). How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104047. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104047
190 studies, 18,573 participants.
The same paper puts most adult readers between 175 and
300 words per minute, and those two speeds give the
2.8 hours and 4.8 hours above.
Because time is words divided by speed, an even range of speeds produces an
uneven range of times, so 3.5 hours sits nearer the fast end of that
range than the middle of it.
If it were a paperback
Roughly 145–202 pages.
Words per printed page is a typesetting convention, not a measurement — it moves with trim size, type size and leading. The range above assumes 250–350 words a page. Friends Illuminated publishes no print edition of this book; the figure is here only because pages are a more familiar size than words.
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About This Edition
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.
