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Moses , and the plural God of Christians : no difference between the belief and worship of an indivisible Jehovah , and the belief and worship " of Father , Son and Holy Ghost , three persons and one God ! If there be none , then neither is there any , notwithstanding the soleixin and perpetually-recurring testimony of Divine Revelation , between Polytheism and Judaism , with
regard to the Supreme Being ; for an object of worship composed of two persons is as much opposed to an object of worship consisting of but one simple mind or person , as is an object of worship made up of two thousand persons or parts , or as are two thousand several and distinct objects So irreconcilably contrary to each other are the one God of the Jews , and
the trine God of Orthodox Christians , that one or other must be false ; and this is the very argument ( Rabbi Hirschel must know this ) which Jews use to justify their rejection of Christianity ! ! Is it then come to this , that when they wish to defend their religious prejudices , they call Christians idolaters , —• when they have a political purpose to serve they acknowledge them to be fellow-believers in the true God ? Such clisingenuousness ( not to say more ) might pass unobserved by the
preacher s auditory , but it will not impose for a moment upon the Christian public . It betrays either radical ignorance of the nature of the religion of Moses , or shameless contempt of it . We refer the Rabbi to an admonition recorded by one of his country ' s prophets , ( Isaiah xlii . 8 . ) u I am Jehovah j that is my name , and my glory will I not give to another / *
W ^ e make these remarks because we are at open war with religious prevarication and dishonesty * and will attack them wherever we find them , whether in the meeting-house , the synagogue , or the cathedral .
The Rabbi thinks our rejoicing on occasion of the late victory , is sanctioned by the justice of our cause ; though he also hinks that Heaven mingltd , in goodness , sorrows with joys lest we " should be extravagantly elated . He panegyrises in high terms the piety of Nelson , and we verily believe , with as much sincerity and truth as any of our Christian pastors ! He solicits earnestly in behalf of the Fund at Llovd ' s , and here he drops an
amiable sentiment of gratitude as a Jew ^ with quoting which we shall dismiss the sermon . € < If , as men , as citizens , we must attend to ^ uch solicitations , how much more ought we , as Jews ^ who are cherished and protected in this
happy country , even as its own children ! Cast out from the land of " our forefathers , we find this land congenial to us : surely , then , its cause is our cause ; and we ought , on every occasion , to evince ourselves grateful for its fostering protection /'
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HirscheVs Thanksgiving Sermon ,. 157
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/45/
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