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anth a 4 he tHrfks * ifnpairedtherri . He was hence diargtefl with maitting tbs * only foamfatfob of Oftrtstfebify , vifcl « th 6 doctrine df the Gddheafl of Jesus and the If ol y Ghost and of t ; li £ Atonement / ' This compelled him .
he adds , " as a professed believer of one God , to depy for the first tina £ publicly those doctrines ; and d ^ ow ^ he concludes , the Editor " takes ocea- ^ sion . to accuse me of presumption ill teaching doctrines which he has himself tfornpfeUed me to avow . "— -P . 5 .
Rammohun Roy expresses some surprise dt his antagonist ' s real or pretended ignorance of his opinions : " llie Editor assigns , as a reason for entering on this controversy , that , after a review of the 4 Precepts of Jesus and
the First Appeal , ' he « felt some doubt whether their author fully believed the deity of Christ , * and consequently he * adduced & few passages from the Scriptures to confirm this doctrine / He then adds , that this Second Appeal to the Christian public confirms all that he before only feared . ( P . 1 . ) I could have scarcely credited this assertion of the Reviewer's
unacquaintance With my religious opinions , if the allegation had come from &ny other quarter ; for both in my cotfversation and correspondence with as many Missionary gentlemen , old and youd £ , as I have had the honour to know , I have never hesitated , when required , to offer my sentiments candidly , as to the
irascripturality trad unreasonableness of the doctrine of the Trinity- On one oc * easion , particularly when on a visit to one of the Rev . colleagues of the Editor at Serathftore , lotig before the time of these publications , I discussed the
subject with that gentleman at his invitation ; and then fully manifested my disbelief of this doctrine , taking the liberty of examining successively all the arguments he , ifrorn friendly motives , urged upon me in support df it . " -u-Pp . 5 6 .
in . our judgment nothing can be more satisfactory than the following confutation 6 f thfe charge of preerump * tion and vindifegitiiob of She trtte Method of reKMotte research ; thfe exttiact is long , btft iVe Could not abridge it Without injury , and we wish out feeders to see a full-length portrait of the Indian Reformer .
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its rabsf important dodtritieii ttiore fnltf in tkree or font years tfcam others hav ^ done by most unremitting study in thirty or forty . ' The doctrine of ttie'rrinity * p-i pears to me so obviously uhscriptqral , th& * I am pretty sure , from my ovm efcperU enee and that of others , thafj no oite pe& * se ^ ed of ra ^ reiy common se » Se will fafl to find its Hn « cripturality a ^ ter a atetfift * dical study of the Old arid New Testakn ift
ments ^ u previously pre ^ Bed the early part of his life with creeds arttf forms of speech preparirtg tfee W&f W that doctrine . No pride , therefore , cart be supposed for a moment to have arisen from comraohly attainable success . The :
Editor might be fully convinced of this fact , were he to engage a few indepen ^ dent and diligent natives to study attentively both the Old and New Test ^ imehta in their original languages * and then to offer their sentiments as * to the doctrine .
of the Trinity being scriptural w a mere human invention . " To hold up to ridicule nty suggestions in the Second Appeal to ^ tudy first the books of the Old Test ^ nient unbiassed by ecclesiastic opinions imbibed hi early life , and then to stodf the Ne ^ Testament , the Rev . Editor states tfc&fc
* couid it be relied on indeed , ' my cbmpendious method * would deserve ndtice > with a view to Christian education * a& , * on my plan , the most certain W £ f off enabling any onfe to discover , in a supe * rior manner , the truths and doctrines of Christianity is to leave him till the agg of thirty or forty without any iieligibuil
impression /*—( P . 503 . ) I do not m thfc least Winder at his disapprobation of my suggestion ; as the Editor , in common with other profes&ors Of tr&dffciditial opi ^ nions , is sure Of suppdrteW of his favourite doctrine * so } orh % As it is mcuicated oh the minds of youthi , attd eyen infants ; who , being owee thbrbughly
impressed with the name df the Trmfty in Unity and Unity in lVinity , loiig before they cdli think f&t th ^ inselves ^ iriust b ^ always Incltnfei , even after their W&utofn httS become teatured , to interpret th ^ sacred books , even tfctfse tte ^ s tvMcii btb Evidently raccmsistent with thfe ddctrltife , iti a iHf&nh « Sr favotir ^ We t ^ their br ^
tofesessed opMcm , whether their study tte continued f 6 r three , or thirty , 6 r ^ t # 9 fefe thirty yea ! r » . Coold Hlnd 6 ol ^ frt ctmtMUtt after the pf esent g ^ nertAribn , or % f ^ r th % fct&dittks exftniinfetMi 6 t a feirtfelfe f erir , if * h $ belief of tf ^ ir Wbla teeing &tOtit& With attiWi&tfdn tvere tiot crfrtfiitty fnvpt ^ dd m- ' tht WHttg oeffbHe ttofcy Wmte to years of underttttn « h ^ ?
" Let toe h ^ r ^ t At ^ geiit that , in my humble opihi ^ h , Wo frtfrV libel kJ tfnd Wim parent eat * evtfr take Mirkhtiige t > f'thfe
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/45/
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