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wiU be fovrftd , fcctafcetfer , in the fine spirit which they bresrtbe * in the < de-Totion and benevolence , toy which ihey are manifestly dictuted . This author values the simple ^ Christianity of the New Testaroeiit , for its moral genius
and excellence 5 and his compositions prove , as did his life , that he saw nothing in the gospel , whicli should forbid it to enter into all our feelings , all our circumstances , all our objects of pursuit and care . We perceive
him to be in earnest , ardent , yet gentle , the determined foe of vice , but the friendly monitor of the vicious . To the religious body , of which he was an ornament , his posthumous sermons must be eminently
acceptable : and we are encouraged , by the demand for theo 3 , f to hope , that they will be most extensively useful . By those of the young , at whose immediate desire they have been published , may they be read in the temper
+ A * wramd edition wiiUoon appear .
with which they were written and delivered ! " There is not a stronger bond Of union between the youthful heart , and those to whom the formation of the mind is , " in any shape or degree , " intrusted , than that which
is established by the communication and reception of knowledge / ' In the present instance , may the , knowledge which has been so impressively recorded , make numbers of the rising Tace ** wise unto salvation V
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§ 40 Bemet 0 >~ -Uniturian Gontr * # er * fy * at € nl # utta .
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Unitarian Controversy at Calcutta . Akt . II . III . IV . —Concluded from p . 47 $ . ON the subject of the principles and mental habits of the Hindoos ., Rammohun Roy is the best of
all witnesses . He says that 3-5 the Of the ' inhabitants of Hindoos tan consist 6 f this people ; the remaining 2-5 ths beiutf chiefly Moosulmans . The latter are , as all the world knows , "firmly devoted to the belief of one
x 3 od i ' * the former , ( says < mr author , ) ate , with -a few exceptions , immersed in gr 6 ss idolatry , and in belief of the most extravagant description respecting ' futurity ^ antiquity , and the miracles of their deities and Bainte , as handed down to them and resided in
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their ancient foooks . ** Precepts of Jesus , &c * London Edition , p . 122 . ** The mysterious doctrine of three Gods in one Godhead , ** is stated l > v
this * Christian Hindoo to be ' the origin of Mohummudanism , and the stumbling-block to the conversion of the more enlightened amongst the Hindoos . "—Ibkl . p . 121 .
In reference to this topic , he pro - nounces a high eulogium upon Christianity : i € If Christianity inculcated a doctrine which represents God as consisting of three persons , and appearing sometimes in the human form , at other times in a
bodily shape like a dove , no Hindoo , in my humble opinion , who searches after truth , can conscientiously profess it in preference to Hindooism ; for that which renders the modern Hindoo system of religion absurd and detestable , is , that it represents the divine nature , though
oufc , as consisting of many persons , capable of assuming different forms for the discharge of different offices . I am , howevtJF , most firmly convinced , that Christianity is entirely free from every trace of Polytheism , whether gross or refined . "—Ibid . pp . 317 , 318 .
Rammohun Roy's book 3 are rendered the more interesting * by his blending with his arguments and criticisms occasional appeals to his own experience . For instance , he says , " For my conviction , and for the satisfaction of those who consider the
Precepts of Jestls as a gufde to peace and happiness , his word , * They may be one as we are , ' Johny ch . xviL ver . 11 , in defining the nature of the unity between God and Jesus , fully suffices . Disgusted with the puerile and unsociable system of Hindoo idolatry , and dissatisfied nt
the cruelty allowed by Moossuluianism against Nonmoossulmans , I , on my searching after the truth of Christianity , felt for a length of time rery much perplexed with the difference of sentiments
found among the followers of C hrist , ( I mepu Trinitarians and Unitarians , the grand divisions df them , ) until 1 i ° et -jeteh the explanation of the tmity given fry the dlvme T < rttcJ * e r himself as a gtutte to peace acid happb ^ ss . "—Ibid . p .
107-la answer to-a question of the Mi * - siopary ' s "DidMobummnd , mogw as lie was , ever make such a declaration as 7 e 8 U 8 ~ ST d , namely that I «" with ^ Mi AKvaya , even to the end oi the WpM& }» qvu author 3 ay 9 , « ts « i ^ wtwftt t * e ^ t twtit » *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/44/
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