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timates the patriarchs were , and as St . Paul expected to be . But I have another argument to offer adduced from facts ; which arc supported by the same testimony as the resurrection of Jtsus from ( he dead . I mean the actual appearance of some of the
human race in our world after their deaths , see Matt . xvii . 1 , &c . Mark ix . 2 , &c . Luke ix . 28 , &c . Here are three plain narratives of a remarkable transaction transmitted to us , one by an apostle , two others by companions of Paul , and they are confirmed by Peter who was present on this ococcasion , see 2 Pet . i . 16—18 . In the accounts that are here given of the transfiguration 6 f
Jesus , it is related that Moses and Elijah appeared ; at this appearance there were four persons present who could afterwards distinctly recollect their very names aird the manner and circumstances
of their appearance . As we are certain then that Moses and Elijah vsisij and most probably Enoch as well as Jesus , may we not infer that all tlm human race who have left the world may exist also ? For it would seem a strange
thing that three or four of our brethren of mankind should exist in a future life and all the rest be annihilated , or sleeping for ages in the cold amis of death . But it is not an improbable opinion
that even all those beings that have appeared on our earth as angels or messengers , are all men that have departed out of the present life . Compare John xx . 12 . Luke xxiv . 4 . Matt , xxviii .
2 , 5 . Mark xvi . 5 . Acts i . 10 . and further , our Lord seems to assert thftt men were in heaven , when he was upon earth see
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Matt . xxiv . 30 . Mark xiii . 32 , " But of that day and hour know ! eth no one , no not the anoels , ( i . e . messengers or prophets ' THAT ARE IN HEAV EN , ^{ the Son , but the Father only . " Here is an evident climax , ] n Heb . i . and ii . the Son is com
pared with and shown to be superior to prophets . Christ in this very discourse had before called his apostles by the term angels . Matt . xxiv . Si . Mark
xiii . 27 , during their present life ; therefore by the angels in heaven he most probably meant such as Moses and Elijah , who appeared to him at his transfiguration * . Trusting you will have patience to bear with one more letter on
the subject ^ I am yotir's , &c J . P
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Mr . Taylor * concerning Josial Charley and Peter Finch . NorzoicJu
Sir , July 16 " , 1811 . I take the liberty to say , that Mr . Turner has been misinformed respecting the Christian name of Mr . Chorley y \ which was Josiaii , and not Jonas : J he was chosen to be pastor to the Presbyterian
congregation in Norwich , about the year 1600 , and continued there for near 30 years . Mr . Peter Finch ( No . 44 , in the List of Mr . FranklancTs Pupils ) "
invited to be his colleague in 1691 , being at that time chaplain to bir William Ashurst , the intrepid patron of Richard Baxter ; he died in 1 / 54 , upon his p 3 d birthday . In a funeral sermon p reached
* See Simpson's Essay on Angels . f Vide List of Mr . Frankland ' s Puj >« » Month . Repos . for May iSn- . t This was an error of Che press an * is corrected , p . 3 84 . * — -Ed »
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458 Mr . Taylor concerning Josiah Chorley and Peter Finch ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/10/
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