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ohlets ; and a more interesting and acceptable volume this useful society nprpr presented to its subscribers and the public . The " Final Appeal , " ( No . III . on our list , ) has reached Endand since the " Precepts of Jesus '' was repuhlished , and this also
we trust the Unitarian Society will commit to press . It is , in our judgment , the most valuable and important ' of all the Hindoo Reformer's works . Though last in point of time of his publications we cannot help referring to it first of all . It is
printed , the reader will observe , at the " Unitarian Press / ' This is explained by the author in a " Notice" to the reader . All his preceding works on the subject of Christianity were printed at the Baptist Mission Press , Calcutta , which is , we believe ,
employed in general work for the sake of profit , in order to serve the mission ; but ( says Rammohun Roy ) " the acting proprietor of that press having-, since the publication of the Second Appeal , declined , although in
the politest manner possible , printing any other work that the author might publish on the same subject , he was under the necessity of purchasing a few types for his own use , and of depending principally upon native superintendance for the completion of the greater part of this work / ' This refusal , however polite in its manner ,
England . " * Dr . Marshman has here allowed his zeal to outrun his knowledge . The work quoted by Rammohun Roy is not Archbishop Newcome ' s translation of the New Testamen < t ^ which formed the basis of the Improved Version '
published by the . Unitarian Society ; but that learned prelate ' s Attempt towards an Improved Version , Sec . of the Twelve Minor Prophets ; ' a production well worthy of the perusal of every Biblical student . "— P . xviii . xix . Of Dr .
Marsh"ian sacuiuenas a controversialist * we may Jake one short specimen from his hook . Keplyiug to objections to the worship of Christ , he says , p . 241 , " That in the » late of humiliation in which his infinite ^ ve to sinners had placed him , and in winch he declared , < If I honour myself , , no , ° ur is nothing / he should pray Co nmself , or formally prescribe this to his "isapies , teas scarcely to be expected r —¦ — ___
n i * jo " ,, Dr ' Marshman * s Defence , &c .
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does not bespeak the confidence of the Missionaries in Che strength of their arguments ; but no Unitarian will lament it . Being the occasion of the establishment of an " Unitarian
Press" in India , it will doubtless ( as Mr . Ivimey says * of Mr . Adam ' s departure from Trinitarianism and Calvinism ) * turn out rather for the furtherance of the gospel /
la a very interesting Preface to the ' * Final Appeal , " Rammohun Roy appeals to the candour of Indian readers on the ground of his being engaged in self-defence . He says very feelingly ,
I am well aware that this difference of sentiment has alread y occasioned much coolness towards me in the demeanour of some whose friendship I hold very dear ; and that this protracted controversy has not only prevented me from rendering my humble services to my
countrymen , by various publications , which I had projected in the native languages ,, but has also diverted my attention from all other literary pursuits for three years past . Notwithstanding these sacrifices , I feel well satisfied with my
present engagements , and cannot wish that I had pursued a different course ; since whatever may be the opiuion of the world , my own conscience fully approves of my past endeavours to defend what I esteem the cause of truth . ' *—Pref . pp . i , m m
11 . He adds , with equal sense and spirit , €€ I feel assured that if religious controversy be carried on , with that temper and language which are considered by
wise and pious men , as most consistent with the solemn and sacred nature of religion , and more especially with the mild spirit of Christianity , the truths of it cannot , for any length of time , be kept concealed , under the imposing veil of high-sounding expressions , calculated to
astonish the imagination and rouse the passions of the people , and thereby keep alive and strengthen the preconceived notions , with which such language has in their minds been , from infancy , associated . But I regret that the method
which has hitherto been observed in inquiry after religious truth , by means of large publications , necessarily issued at considerable intervals of time , is not , for several reasons , so well adapted to the speedy attainment of the proposed object ,
* Mon . Repos . XVII . € 83 .
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Revfiew * . —~ UnitariayL . Controversy at Calcutta . 475
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/43/
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