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that ** h * s eye was not dim , nor was his natural force / ' or vigour , " abated" although of the age of 120 years - Ver . 7 th- Three of the evangelists have given an account of the transfiguration of Jesus \ or a sensible display of the g lories of the future state , in the persons of Moses , Elijah and Jesus . There is little difference in
their several relations , only Luke positively calls them men ; which would not have applied to Moses , had he been dead ; neither can it be asserted , that he was risen from the dead , without contradicting the express testimony of Scripture , that Jesus was the
first-fruits of them that slept . Here , then , we have the testimony of three evangelists that Moses died not ; but was translated , like Enoch and Elijah , to the heavenly state . And this satisfactorily accounts , why his sepulchre was not to be found . This is called a
vision by the sacred writers , but it was also a real transaction , as St . Peter affirms , from what they both saiv and heard in the Holy Mount . ( See 2 Epist . Peter i . 16—18 . ) It
is rather singular , that neither John in his Gospel or Epistles , nor James , who were eye and ear witnesses with Peter , should make any allusion to this transaction of the transfiguration ; but we have sufficient evidence of the historical fact .
PHILALETHES . P . S . At p . 216 , Vol . VI . of Theol . Repos ., I beg to correct a passage relating to the Prince Michael * who is there represented as the leader or great prince of the children of Israel ,
to restore them to their country , &c , as foretold by Daniel . ( See x . 13—21 and xii . 1 . ) It does not necessarily follow that this temporal prince was to spring from the stem of Jesse , as is supposed in the paper referred to ; I rat
her think now , he may be of Gentile race , as Cyrus was , who was the great deliverer of the Jews from the Bab ylonish captivity . And should the war between Russia and Turkey take place , as in all probability it will , w ^ ^ all soo n dis cover to wh om th * i 3 high destiny belongs .
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Sir , I—I RVING been engaged for some ii tlme * ft Wlaking collections for * History of the Life and Times of
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Daniel Be Foe , with a view to public cation , you will oblige me by allowing your work to be the medium for rcw questing communications from any of your correspondents for the further * ance of the design , and the same will be thankfully accepted , addressed to me either at Lufton , near Yeovil , ia Somersetshire ; or at No . 34 , Ely Place , Holborn , in London . WALTER WILSON . ^ i
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The Unitarian Mourner comforted * Letter IV .
To Mrs . on the Death of her Daughtery aged 20 . Sept . 28 , 1819 . My dear Madam , ADOPT this method of addressing I you , in the hope of being able to express my sentiments on the subject of the recent painful visitation of Divine Providence , more fully and with better effect than can be done in
conversation . If it be any solace of your grief to know that others feel with you , I beg to assure you , for my own part , that I have been deeply affected by your loss , and that the other members of our society with whom I have conversed on the subject , sincerely sympathize with you .
But happily it is not in the sympa * thy of our friends alone that we caa find consolation in seasons of distress . With no better support than earthly friends can afford , the heart would sink under its burthen of grief . You will allow me to attempt the fulfilment of what I conceive to be the most
important part of the office of the Christian friend and the Christian minister , by directing- your thoughts , as well as I am able , to those everlasting sources of consolation which the sacred volume unfolds . I doubt not it will be often
before you , —for every other book is poor ami meagre in comparison with these living oracle 3 . Let me particularly recommend to your attention the following passages , as affording interesting subjects for meditation , under the loss of friends , and mare especial lv the loss of children : 2 Sam . xii .
15—23 ; 2 Kings iv . 8—3 7 ; 1 Kings xvii . 8—24 ; Job i . IS— -22 ; Ezekiel xxiv . 15 , H > ; Luke vii . 11—16 , viii . 41 , 42 , 49—56 . Your eyes will , perhaps , be dimmed "with tears , when you reud of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/13/
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