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    close of a door' upon it , he received so severe ah ' injury that a mortification ensued , and it was found necessary that he should submit to an amputation , in order to save his life . We are not furnished

    vviili the date of the year when Mf . Newcome entered into holy orders ; but we find that he accumulated the degrees of bachelor

    and doctor of divinity , in 17 o 5 . In fhat year he was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Hertford , lord lieutenant of Ireland ; and in the following year , upon a vacancy

    taking place on the Irish episcopal betich , he was nominated to the see of Dromore . In this situation he continued during the greatest part of nine years , diligently and

    faithfully discharging the duties c f his episcopal office , and securing the respect of all parties , and of all religious persuasions , by the affability , prudence , candour , and moderation , which were the

    invariable guides of his conduct . Soon after his promotion to this see , he entered into the matrimonial connection with an English lady of a respectable family , who died not many years afterwards , leaving behind her one daughter . Sometime after her death he

    married a second English lady , of an ancient Berkshire family , who btill survives him ^ and by whom he had several sons and daughters . In the year 1776 , under Lord t'Tar court's administration , Dr . Newcome was translated from

    Drouioie to the bishopric ofOs . sory . Hitherto he had not been known to the world as an author , excepting ^ perhaps , by the

    publication of some single sermons , on particular occasions ; but be now made preparation for layirig before the public some of the more

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    important fruits of tiisie&rriea &fref well directed studies . The'first of his valuable publications wa $ "An Harmony of the . Gospels ; in which the English Text is disposed after Le Clerc ' s Manner * with such various Readings at the

    Foot of the Page , as have received Wetstein ' s Sanction in his Folio Edition of the Greek Testament * Observations are subjoined , tending to settle the Time and Place of the several Transactions , to establish tjie Series of'Facts , and to reconcile some Inconsistencies , "

    1778 , folio . This work reflects great honour on the authors learning and ingenuity , as well as on the pains which he has taken in it , by the exercise of calm and rational criticism , to ctmtribiite his efforts towards the removal of

    the difficulties in harmonizing the gospels ; and we give entire crecfit to the preliminary declaration made by him when he said , trie advancement of sacred literature

    is the end of my studies , ^ nd the object of rny ambition . / ' In trie course of it , the bishop maintarris the common opinion that our Sa

    viour's ministry continued at least three years , and makes some remarks on Dr . Priestley ' s " Gtfeeic Harmony , " published in the

    preceding year , in which the author supports Mr . Mann ' s hypothesis , that our Lord ' s ministry did not last more than one year . Soon after the bishop ' s " Harmony "

    appeared , Dr , Priestley published one in English , with a letter prefixed addressed to the bishop of Ossory , defending the hypothesis

    which he hac } formerly adopted In the year 1780 , Dr . Nciwcorne , who in the preceding year had been translated to the see bf ^ •; Wi ^ teffordy sinsWertfd thirtr leher iri «

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    268 Memoir of Archiishop NetocoMe .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/2/