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nity ; and if India , as it is said , borrowed her gods from Egypt , this is undoubtedly the oldest Trinity created by the perverse ingenuity of man . The Greek and Roman Trinity—Jove , Neptune , and Pluto—is of somewhat more recent date ; and the Heathen JCxlmlYz ^ Woden , _ Thor , L _? jidJ£ ejcl —•
is comparatively modern . It is not , perhaps , generally known that the tings of England can trace their lineage to Woden and Freyd . These were the fabrications of barbarous ignorance ; it was easy to deify human , beings . There was more refinement and intelligence required to compound the Trinity of Plato , the great first
cause , his Logos or wisdom , and the soul of the world . The disciples of Plato , on becoming Christians , converted this Trinity into the Godhead now worshipped by so vast an extent of civilized society . But Rammohun Roy , in rejecting the Trinity of India , did not prostrate his understanding "before another far less ancient , equally untrue , and far more irrational ,
contradictory , and absurd . He gave all his heart and soul to the study of our Scriptures , but there he could find no Trinity . What did he find ? « That the Omnipotent God , who is the only proper object of religious veneration , is one and undivided inverson—theLord
pur God is one Lord . " That Christ , throughout the whole of his mission , taught the most sublime of truths ; ? ind tha , t if ^ ny of Jiis followers could have been guilty of the blasphemous presumption of ascribing deity to his person , he would have indi ' gnantly Repressed and spurned at the folly- — . "Why callest thou me good ? there
as none good but one , that is God . " ' No exertions in the cause of religious truth have been more enlightened and powerful than those of the illustrious Rajah . His admirable expositions of Scripture must carry conviction to every mind that is not narrow by nature , or has not been ^ arrowed by education or prejudice . Our belief is always in correspondence with the calibre of our minds and the
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extent of our inform ation / Surel y > such men as Sheil , O'Connell , and Doyle , cannot give a moment ' s ere * dence to the dogmas they are supposed to entertain- —No ! Whatever policy or expediency may lead them to profess , if they be Christians , they must
be Unitarians . Would they but pursue the ^ xffi blessings might they not confer on their countrymen and on mankind ! Here is an example to follow ; here is an object to attain worthy of their purest aspirations and most towering ambition !
Mr . Chairman , I beg to propose the resolution I have read / In seconding the resolution , Mr . Drennan said —• ' Sir , the field thrown open by the resolution which I have the honour to second is so vast * that I shrink from entering upon it , and must be content with a timid and
cursory glance at a very few of the objects which it embraces . Of Palestine I shall say nothing ; I fear to lessen the solemn interest which all who hear me must feel for that holy ground
;the scene of Our Saviour ' s pilgrimage —his cradle and his grave—it must be familiar , at least in imagination , to his followers ;—it is indeed , in some sort , the country of every Christian , whatever be his father-land . But of
India I would say a few words ; and first of the religion , if such a system can be called a religion . Mr . Carmicbael has told you of the Indian superior Trinity . Of some sucli doc ~ trine we have probably had an example without travelling so far to find it ; but what would even Trinitarians say to 330 millions of inferior divinities I
a number so stupendous that those among them who acquire names may deem themselves peculiarly fortunate . But extremes meet , and I would fain hope that this may be merely a different mode of expressing that truth which was so eloquently illustrated yesterday by our reverend friend , Mr . Harris , that God is all in all . 4 My friend who moved this resolution has well remarked , that the Indian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/8/
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