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gehttem&n who had hinted this to her , ( a clergyman of the Estafehsherf Church , ) added , that it was excusable , since the Bishop was very old , and hrs faculties consequently much impaired . The worthy Bishop , having Been 1
much censured both in pubHc and ' private ; and the clergy of his diocese being greatly hurt arid incensed , on account of his giviirg a valuable living to a Mr . Usko ,
a Prussian , a gentlemen supposed by the Bishop to be the first linguist in Europe , or perhaps in the world , and of the most irreproachable character and morals ; considered it necessary , in order to vindicate his character from the
aspersions which this event hiad brotrght upon it , to serid a dfcti - lar letter * to thfci clergy of his dio ^ - cese , in which he displays , in a very advantageous point of view ' , his caftdour arid liberality ) afc& fully justifies bia cbndtfct .
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The letter of X . Y . has induced Charfclo once mbre to read over the chief testimonies of Scripture , as to the visible , incarnate , and corporeal ascension of Christ .
I . Peter is generally presumed to have been the author of the gospel which Mark translated into Greek . Ill Mark , no such inci
dent is described . An ctvxXYj \ prf 9 or takitig-up into heaven , is indeed recorded * in ! the postscript' to this gospel , ( xVi . 190 but not a bodily assumption .
Thfc Jews consideredtH 6 hiittiatt soul ad a vdlitilesubstartce , which ; on th £ djfcsoltitfem of the body , s ' eparated'firtfm it , and ' ascehded id the he&Venfe . Of fchy eihfe ^ hti ^ gotfd ma * i tf < Je&fft $ a Jewish vtfri itit
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I read the lettttf thyself , and ani extr ' eniely ^ orry th iat I ditffiot take acdpy of it , for it is Ifighly dfesefrving of being made ptJtilic . Among matiy other circutfc , stances , I recollect the following :
that Mr . Usko having resided st ) meyears y at Smyrna , dis chaplairl to the factory , had an opportunity of examint rig the manuscripts which were preserved in the seven churched of Asia , to which St . John writes in the Revelations :
and had made many valuable extracts from them , which he would have ready fbt' thfe press in the course of three or foul * years ; and when published , thfe Christian world wdtiTd s £ e how very defec ^ trve ma : ti y of our pteseht translations of th ^ New ' Testament were .
—The BisKc ^ K ail since become ^ . tl Uititkrten . From ^ Sir , 1 ^ 6 ii r m bst obedient servant , THtfMAS SIMONS .
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mi ^ hf say ^ he receive 4 tip into heaven , and passed ex . $ s £ itvv r& ftsa into the plfrce of higti ^ sf honour , into the situation of brightest ' glory , into the abode ^
of parest bliss . 1 / no oth ^ r record subsisted thari the ! one in Mark , it would not exclude the id ^ a of prdviou ^ aissolutiou : nor does it represent the avcO <* $ i $ recorded , to hhVe been doterhporary with the separation of Jesus Christ
and his disciple ^ . II- Ih Matih ^ w ^ no incident of tHekiftaisa&iribea : IH . Iixitohn , no iricident of the kin ^ i % dHtribed . Th ^ We the only evangelists wlio calri fc ' tfWe bceTb' eye-witnesse s of tU& final ^ dosk i ^ rt o fCfifist . fo
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664 Doctrine of art Incarnate Asctrtsi&n reconsidered
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was DOCTRINE OF AN INCARNATE ASCENSION HE-CONSIDERED .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/14/
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