A Series of Dialogues,

[Clarke (Richard)]

A Series of Dialogues,

addressed to the Jews in the 35th Jubilee of their Dispersion and Captivity. In these Dialogues, Jesus Christ is proved to be that Man-Child revealed to John, Rev. xii. 1 -- 5. And that he is the same Son of Man (bar Enosh) whom Daniel sees brought in the Clouds of the Heaven to the Throne of the Ancient of Days. Ch. 7. 13. That he is called Jesus of Nazareth under the Gospel, because he was separated and kept hid as it were, many Ages before he came into Flesh, to redeem the Children of his Father and Mother, Adam, un der [sic] the Fall.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [ii], xviii, 30, [1, ads], 8vo, disbound

Publication Details: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Wilkie... [1775?]

Notes: The drift of this tractate can be gathered from the extended title. Clarke, a graduate of University College, Oxford, was in 1753, appointed as rector of St. Philip's, in South Carolina. He left the colony under something of a shadow in 1759, his comfortable Anglicanism have taken a millenarian turn. A good summary of his career appears in Lyon Tyler's 'The Gnostic Trap', Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 146-168. BL and Chicago only in ESTC.The page of advertisements at the end has an unusual feature. Besides listing other works by the author, there is a manicul...moreThe drift of this tractate can be gathered from the extended title. Clarke, a graduate of University College, Oxford, was in 1753, appointed as rector of St. Philip's, in South Carolina. He left the colony under something of a shadow in 1759, his comfortable Anglicanism have taken a millenarian turn. A good summary of his career appears in Lyon Tyler's 'The Gnostic Trap', Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 146-168. BL and Chicago only in ESTC.The page of advertisements at the end has an unusual feature. Besides listing other works by the author, there is a maniculed plea for the loan, from any Gentleman, of Telsius de Principiis Rerum naturalium, and Strozzi de Doctrina Chaldaeorum, 'as they cannot be found at the Booksellers.' HIDE

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Subject: Theology

Published Date: [1775?]

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