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    open day , and to meet ihe Christian on fair -aird equal ' ground ^ they lie in ambush in the page-of any Magazine which will publish their productions , and thence

    under some assumed title , spit their feeble venom at the gospel . These men , these moral men , I observe , are no sticklers for accuracy , or what is generally called j

    truth . ri > ty misrepresent , or misquote , just as it . suits their purpose ; and the man who could * ' transform the Temple of Vulcan at Memphis , into the Temple of Jehovah at Jerusalem , " would

    not have much difficulty in making it out from the scriptures that Jesus Christ was not raised from the dead ; or if he pleased , that the Messiah was never either crucified or dead . Chariclo ' s paper on the Ascension is dated 44 Diss . " This I believe to be a

    fictitious date ; however , that is of no consequence to his argument . He begins in a querulous way , by complaining that his paper was not inserted till five months after its date . If he had

    any modesty he would perceive „ that many papers of infinitely more value than his , have been in the Editor ' s hands a longer time-He then affects great solicitude respecting the date of Christ ' s ascension . Nothing but a sincere and humble desire to satisfy his curiosity prompted him to

    commit his thoughts to paper ; * creel at judeeus * * It is well known , " he says , < c from the concurring testimony of the evangelic writers , that Jesus Christ took leave of his dis ~

    cipies in Galilee , and there separated from them on a misty mountain-top . . But although the ac * count at the beginning of Acts

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    ( ch . i . 9 . ) which , as coming from Peter is probably the original one , relates that * a cloud received him out of their sight ; there is nothing in the narrative to

    preclude the suspicion that Jesus re-descended the mountain on the other side , and continued his progress in the direction towards Damascus . At least there is strong scriptural ground for suspecting that , for nearly five years alter

    his secession from Galilee , he must have resided in the neighbourhood of that city /'—Really the man who could write this passage mutt have a degree of impudence of which I have no idea . These are Peter ' s words , * And

    when he had spoken these things , while they beheld , he was taken up ; and a cloud received him out of their sight : and when

    they looked stedfasily toward heaven , as he went up , behold , two men stood by them in white apparel ; which also said , Ye men of Galilee , why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? This same Jesus ^ which is taken up front you into heaven , shall so come in like manner as ye have . seen him go into heaven . " That any man with a Testament before

    him could coolly sit down , commit to paper , and print such an assertion as that just quoted , would scarcely be credited except by those who see and know it to be so . Besides if Peter ' s assertion is not conclusive , take Mark ' s , " So then after the Lord had spoken unto them , he was received up into heaven , and sat on the right hand of God / ' Ch . xvi . J 9 . Or Luke ' " And it came to pass , while he blessed them , he was parted from them , and carried up into heaven * " Vb .

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    3 G 4 Strictures on Chariclo .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/10/