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the Evangelists . Soon after the publication of this tract , there appeared in c Friend of India / a periodical work under the direction of the Baptist Missionaries , an article animadverting upon it , which was signed ' A Christian Missionary , ' but written by the Rev . Mr . Schmidt . To this paper , Dr . Marshman , the editor of the magazine , appended some * Observation' of his own , t in which he styled the Compiler of the * Precepts / « an intelligent Heathen , whose mind is as yet completely opposed to the grand design of the Saviour ' s becoming incarnate . '
" These c Observations * produced the second of the following pamphlets , intituled < An Appeal to the Christian Public in Defence of the Precepts of Jesus , by a Friend to Truth . ' The writer is now known to have been Rammohun Hoy himself . He complains in strong terms , of the application to him of the term Heathen , as < a violation of truth , charity , and liberality ; ' and also controverts some of Dr . Marshman ' s objections to the compilation , and to his reasonings in the Introduction . In a subsequent number of the * Friend of India / I Dr . Marshman inserted a brief reply to this ' Appeal / in which he still denied to the author the title of € Chrisf
tian / because , he writes , we belong to that class who think that no one can be a real Christian without believing the divinity and the atonement of Jesus Christ , and the divine authority of the whole of the Christian Scriptures , ' disclaiming , however , all intentions of using the term * Heathen' in an invidious sense .
" Dr . Marshman , in his first Observations / had promised to ' take up the subject" of Rammohun Hoy ' s work * more fully in the first number of the Quarterly Series' of The Friend of India , then in preparation . Accordingly , there appeared in that publication some ' Observations on certain ideas contained in
the Introduction to The Precepts of Jesus the Guide to Peace and Happiness / § In reply to this paper , Rammohun Roy published the last of the following pamphlets , intituled , ' A Second Appeal to the Christian Public in Defence of the Precepts of Jesus / To
• " No . XX . February 1820 /' f " London Edition of Dr . Marshman ' s Papers , p . 1 . " t" No . XXIII . May 1820 . Dr . Marshman ' s Papers , London Edition , p . 5 . " § " Idem . p . 17 . Friend of India , September 1820 . "
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this tract Dr . Marshman printed an elaborate answer in the fourth number of the Quarterly Series of « The Friend of India /* Here the discussion rests , as far as we are at present informed . " f— . Pref . pp . xiv—xvii .
The republication of Dr . Marshman ' s papers in the controversy by some of his Baptist friends in England , X induced the Unitarian Society to reprint Rammohun Roy ' s
pam-? " December 1821 . Dr . Marshman ' s Tracts , London Edition , pp . 64 , &c . " f " The reader may he referred for some further particulars relating to Rammohun Roy , to the Monthly Repository , Vol . XIII . pp . 229 , &c . ; XIV , pp . 561 , &c . ; XV . pp . 1 , &c- ; XVI . pp . 477 , &c . ; XVII . pp . 682 , &c ; and to Mr . Belsham's Introduction to William Roberta ' s ( of Madras ) First Letter to the Unitarian Society , 1818 . " X This republication is entitled " Defence of the Deity and Atonement of Jesus Christ , in Reply to Rammohun Roy , of Calcutta . By Dr . Marshman , of Serarapore /* It is an 8 vo . volume and is sold
by Kingsbury and Co . We have not put it at the head of our list , though it is lying before us , because we find nothing in it to review-, except as it is quoted by Rammohun Roy . It is , in fact , the repetition of the commori * -place arguments which have been a train and again refuted
in this country ^ though Dr . Marshman s reading at Serampore is not very likely to have made him acquainted with the refutation , Thesue exploded arguments are put forth with great solemnity o ( manner and in the tone of infallibility .
Of Dr . Marshman ' s confined theological information , Dr . T . Rees has exhibited a proof in the Preface above quoted : € t It is not intended in this Preface to enter into a review of the controversy .
Dr . Marshman has , however , made a remark , which , as it refers to the Unitarian Society , we ^ nay be permitted to notice . In raising an argument for the Deity of Christ , upon the supposed application to him of the term * fellow' in the English translation of Zechariah xni . 7 , he thus quotes RaihtnOhun Roy ' s criticism upon that text : Unable to deny noic
thia our author merely Hints in a that * tVtDP Immithi , fellow , signifies one that lives near another ; « therefore tne word , fellow , ki the English translation is not ahpgel ^ r correct , as justly observed by ArcW *** P Nje ^ cqnie m M u < » Improved Version / Jatejy ; published , » Dr . MarBhmaB , " by the >^ ocjnian s ol
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474 Review * — Unitarian Controversy at Calcutta .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/42/
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