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answer to it. His approbation of my prose was the more candid and ingenuous, inasmuch as it was not suborned by my approbation of his verse. Most truly your's,

His Majesty's Apartments,
Oakham, Sept. 21, 1828.

ROBERT TAYLOR.

P. S.-That cowardly, forging Christian thief, Edward B. Singley, who forged the petition to Parliament in my name, and who writes letters to insult respectable persons-clergymen and others-as coming from me, and signed with my name, continues still his indefatigable annoyances. What possible means of redress or protection have I from such a mode of hostility as this? I have been actually threatened with personal retaliation for insulting letters which this blackguard has written in my name, to persons I never heard of. These are their Christian devices! These things being done by Christians-and as I shrewdly suspect this Edward B. Singley to be a Christian priest-in our own knowledge and experience, what sort of fair play may we guess had the infidels, of former times, to look for from Christian hands? I am obliged to refuse all letters that are not post paid.

"In the name of God, One in his Essence, and Three in his Persons."

THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR

JESUS CHRIST,

As preached by himself. Now first rendered into English from a Version of an Arabian Manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Paris. By ROBERT TAYLOR, A.B. Respectfully and gratefully presented to RICHARD CARLILE.

(Concluded from p. 384.)

CHAPTER XXVIII.—A FUNERAL ORATION DELIVERED BY CHRIST.

1. O death, how dost thou render all science fleeting, what tears and wailings dost thou cause.

2. But after all, God my father, He it is, who gave thee this power.

3. For the transgression of Adam, and of Eve his wife, do men die, nor does death spare even one.

4. To no man however does it happen, or is it brought upon him but by the commandment of my father.

5. There have indeed been men who lived nine hundred years, but they died; yea, though some lived yet longer, they bowed at last to the same fate, nor was there one of them who ever said I have not tasted death.

6. For the Lord never brings in the same punishment but once, when it pleased my father to send it upon man.

7. And in the same moment, when Death coming forth, sees the commandment coming to him from heaven, he says, "I will go against him

disturbance."

8. Then instantly the rush is made upon his soul, and Death has dominion over it, dealing with it after his own pleasure.

9. For because Adam did not obey the will of my father, but transgressed his commandment; my father being provoked to wrath, sentenced him to death, and thus Death entered into the world.

10. But if Adam had kept the commandment of my father, death would never have befallen him.

11. Think ye now that I cannot ask of my good father, to send a fiery chariot, and take the body of my father Joseph, and carry it to the place of rest to dwell with spirits?

12. But it was on account of the prevarication of Adam, that this calamity and violence of death came down upon the whole human race.

13. And this is the cause why it behoveth me, according to the flesh, to die, for my own work whom I have created, that they may attain grace.

Paul in his 15th to the Corinthians, assumes this doctrine of the entailed sin of Adam, which is no where intimated in the Old Testament, but evidently derived from this Gospel of Christ, which is that which he asserts that he had preached.

CHAPTER XXIX.

1. And when I had spoken these things, I embraced the body of my father Joseph, and wept over it.

2. And they opened the door of the sepulchre, and placed his body in it, by the side of the body of his father Jacob.

3. And when he died, he had completed a hundred and eleven years.

4. He never had the tooth-ache, nor was the clearness of his sight dimmed, nor was his stature bent, nor his strength diminished. 5. But he followed the trade of a carpenter to the last day of his life.

6. And that day was the six and twentieth of the month Abib.'

CHAPTER XXX.

1. But we Apostles, when we heard these things from our Saviour, arose delighted, and falling prostrate in honour to him, we said,

2. O our Saviour, shew us thy grace, now indeed have we heard

the word of life.

8. Yet we wonder, O our Saviour, at the fate of Enoch and Elias, who never died at all.

4. For they inhabit the seat of the just even unto this day, and their bodies have not seen corruption.

* Matthew, in contradiction to Luke, adheres to this text.

Here the Epitome of this Gospel, as handed down by Isidore, ended.

5. But that old man, Joseph the carpenter, was nevertheless your father according to the flesh.

6. And you have commanded us to go into all the world and preach the Holy Gospel.

7. And hast said, proclaim to them the death of my father Joseph, and keep the holiday sacred to him with an annual solemnity.

8. But whosoever shall take away any thing from this discourse, or shall add any thing unto it, he offendeth."

9. We wonder surely, that from the day when thou wast born in Bethlehem, that he called thee his son according to the flesh. 10. Why therefore did you not make him immortal as well as Enoch and Elias? and you say he was a just and chosen man.

CHAPTER XXXI.

1. But our Saviour answered and said,

2. The prophecy of my father is now truly accomplished upon Adam for his disobedience, and all things are ordered according to the will and wish of my father.

3. Since, if man neglects the command of God, and follows the works of the Devil by committing sin, his age is prolonged.

4. For for this end is he preserved alive, that perchance he may repent, and may consider that he is to be delivered into the hands of death.

5. But if any man be studious of good works, even to him also shall length of life be prolonged, that as the renown of his age increases, good men may imitate him.

6. But when you see a man whose mind is prone to anger, surely his days shall be shortened, for these are they who are cut off in the flower of their age.

7. Thus every prophecy which my father hath pronounced concerning the sons of men, must in every respect be fulfilled.

8. But as for Enoch and Elias, in what manner they subsist alive unto this day, preserving the same bodies in which they were born.

9. And as for my father Joseph, that he did not continue in life as well as they.

10. Verily, verily, I say unto you, though a man should live many myriads of years in the world, he is yet constrained at some time to change his life for death.

11. And I say unto you, O my brethren, that even those selfsame Enoch and Elias, at the end of time must come back again into the world and die, in the day of commotion, of terror, of distress, and of affliction.

12. For Anti-christ shall kill four bodies, and shall pour out their blood like water, for the reproach to which they shall expose

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John, in his infamous Apocalypse, has plagiarized this idea with the addition of a frightful denunciation.

him, and for the ignominy with which they (being again) alive (on earth) shall stigmatize him by detecting his impiety.

CHAPTER XXXII.

1. And we said, O, our Lord God, and our saviour, who are those four whom you have said that Anti-christ shall cut off on account of their reproving (him ?)

2. The Saviour answered they are Enoch, Elias, Scila, and Tabitha.

3. When we heard this discourse from our Saviour, we were glad and rejoiced.

4. And we gave all glory and thanksgiving to the Lord, to God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

5. This is He, to whom be glory, honour, dignity, dominion, power, and praise, as also at the same time to the good Father with Him, and to the Holy Ghost the Giver of Life, from hence and in all time, for ever and ever,

AMEN.

The end of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by most faithful translation from the first version of the original Arabic, first edited at Leipsic in the year 1722, and now first done into English,

BY ROBERT TAYLOR,

By the grace of the same Jesus Christ, prisoner in Oakham Gaol; Martyr, but not Saint.

May 30, 1828.

WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST, NOT CONTAINED IN THE GOSPELS. 1.-28 Acts. 35, Remember the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, how he said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 2. After 6 Luke 5. In the most ancient Greek Codex which Beza presented to the University of Cambridge, were the words: "In the same day seeing one working on the sabbath day, Jesus saith to him "Man, if indeed you are aware what you are doing, you are happy; but if you are not aware, you are under a curse, and a transgressor of the law."

3. After 16 Mark 8, Beza testifies that he found in a most ancient manuscript, the words " And all things which had been commanded to them they immediately related to Peter and his companions; but afterwards Jesus himself by them promulged from the east to the west, that sacred and uncorrupt tidings of eternal life."

Tabitha. It is manifest that this Tabitha cannot refer to the Tabitha or Dorcas raised from the dead by Peter. First.-Because even if this gospel were a modern popish fraud, it could hardly have betrayed its purpose by so egregious an anachronism. Secondly.-Because she is united with persons who were not distinguished for having been raised from the dead, which was common to Lazarus and the widow of Nain's son, and many others; but for never having died at all. Scila is quito out of our reckoning.

4.-Origen in his commentary on Matthew 18, 21, adds to the text:-" And Jesus said, For the infirm I became infirm, and for the hungry I was hungry, and for the thirsty I became athirst."

5.-Eusebius, Clemens, and Origen each quote as words of Christ that he said, "Ask ye for the great things, and the little ones shall be added unto you. And seek ye heavenly things, and earthly things shall be added unto you.

6.-Jesus said "Become ye careful bankers."

7. According to Barnabas, Jesus said,-Those who would see me and arrive at my kingdom, must possess me in afflictions and

torments.

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8.-In Clemens Alexandrinus, Peter declared that Jesus had said to the apostles, If any one of Israel shall repent, and through my name shall believe in God, his sins shall be forgiven him for twelve years. Go ye into the world that none may say

they have not heard.

9.-In Clemens Romanus, Jesus said, "If ye shall be gathered into my bosom and shall not do as I have commanded you, I will say, depart from me, I know not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity."

10. In Justin Martyr, Jesus said, "In what things I shall find you, in those will I judge you."

A SPECIMEN OF A DIVINE REVELATION,

Or the Insanity of Religion in Action and Displayed, where the Mind is Sane on all other Subjects.

To the Rev. Robert Taylor, Oakham Gaol.

London, September 12, 1828. REVEREND SIR,-I have addressed this long epistle to you, in consequence of perceiving that all your writings have one uniform tendency, that of instilling into the minds of your fellow-countrymen and fellow-beings, that a certain class of men in society are living in ease and affluence upon them, on the supposed presumption that they have no right so to do.

I have no doubt on my mind, that when you have taken the trouble to read this epistle, you will discover how far you are likely to succeed in your object, and of succeeding in disseminating your doctrines and principles.

That seemingly apparent candour of your's, joined to your highly gifted talents, with the inflexibility of your resolution, all conspire to add favourable sentiments in the mind not only of myself, but of all your admirers, and still more so, when I see such apparent disinterestedness, such zeal in behalf of your fellow creatures, rewarded by pains, penalties, and imprisonment. Such conduct certainly does stamp the name of Taylor with high celebrity and renown, and gives an appearance, as one possessed of the highest disinterested virtue.

As a sincere friend in the cause of suffering humanity, and as a bitter enemy to despotism and oppression, under whatsoever shape they may

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