semi
-Platonic,
semi
-Christian notions, Henry More makes a sad jumble in his assertion of chronochorhistorical Christianity.
decisive reference to the ascension of the visible and tangible Jesus from the surface of the earth upward through the clouds, pointed out in the writings of St. Paul or in the Gospel, beginning as it certainly did, and as in the copy according to Mark it now does, with the baptism of John, or in the writings of the Apostle John, would have been more effective in flooring Old Nic of Amsterdam
and his familiars, than volumes of such "maybe's," "perhapses," and "should be rendered," as these.
Ib.
viii. c. 2. c. 6.