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otters . Citmg the " Improved Ver-• ion /* besays , ( Final Appeal , p . 2970 " for wbieh the Christian : world is indebted to its eminently learned authors /* And having occasion to refer to Locke , he characterizes him as 44 one of the greatest men that ever lived . "—Ibid . p . 80 .
Mr . Adam ,, the author of the Serinon which stands third on our list , is a native of North Britain , who was seat out to India by the Baptist Missionary Society . Having become an Unitarian through the instrumentality of Rainmohun Roy , " Vhom he had hoped to bring- over to Trinitarianfsm , he has seceded from his former
connexion , and become the minister of the first Unitarian congregation ia Bengal . His abandonment of the system of his former patrons has exposed
him to bitter reproach , but we are authorized to say that his old , no less than his new , religious associates hold his moral character and talents in high respect .
Some incidental expressions in Rammohun Roy ' s works lead us to conclude that he at first adopted , if he does not still hold , the Arian hypothesis : of this hypothesis the ' * Claims of Jesus' * is an avowed defence . The
argument of the sermon is summed up in the following observations on the nature of Christ , as the Son of God : u Thus we find that whether the title
is applied to Adam or to Jesus—to the former in reference to his creation , or to the latter in reference to his conception in the womb of Mary , and his resurrection from the dead , there is one idea
common to all those uses , and on account of which it seems in every instance to have been applied—the idea of the communication of existence by the power of ; God immediately exerted , without the intervention , as far as we are told or
are able to perceive , of any inferior agent . It is necessary to take only one step further—to apply this principle of interpretation in another single instance , and we shall then possess a consistent view of ' all its uses , together with a scriptural and definite notion of the
original nature of the person of Christ . He is directly and immediately derived from God his Father , without the intervention of a *» y otjier agent , whereas all other beings hare been mediately and Indirectly derived from God , 1 . e . through the iafttrumentttHty of Jesus Christ . as has been
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already established from Script are , In a preceding part of this discourse . p rt > m this we must at once perceive the incoa . sistency of maintaiunrg his supreme , i ^ . derived and im ) epe » dei * l Deity , as well as the propriety of those numerous sent * .
tural expressions whtck- describe him as the only-begotten Son of God , the fifctborn oi every creature , tfee begiuning ef the creation of God ; and the jast ground of that superiority to every other order
of beings which is uniformly claimed for him in the Nevv * Testament . He h * as far below the unoriginal Jehovah as the derivation of his nature can place him- . and he is as far above every other existence as * the immediateness of that
derivation can raise him . Such , theu , \ % Jesus :- —the first and only being created originally by the immediate power of God—the nrst and only beiivg begotten ia the womb of a virgin by tbe immediate power of God—and the first and only being raised from death to life by the immediate power of God . "—Pp . 22 ,
23 . The reader of this passage will judge of the propriety of iVJr . Ivimey ' g denunciation of Mr . Adam in a newspaper as a Socinian , and his vindication of the term as applied to this gentleman on the ground of his declaring " that Jesus Christ was a mere man , and that he had no existence
before he was born of the virgin /'* We do not agree with Mr . Adam in his Arianism , but we revere his love of truth , admire his
ingenuousness , respect his talents , aud hope for much good to India from his enlightened zeal . Since we began this article we have received the copy of a letter from Ram mohun Roy to a friend at
Liverpool , lately come to hand . The interesting writer expresses great satisfaction in the marks of regard which have heea shewn him hy the English Unitarians , whom he assures of hi 3 warmest esteem . He sends copies of the Final Appeal to several of the Unitarian ministers in this country . He
acknowledges with gratitude the receipt of several of our publications , and especially of tbe " -Improved Version - , the advantages that he h ^ derived from these , he &ays , it is iwpossible for him fully to estimate ; « md he expresses the hope oi beiflff benefited b y future favours of *» ? &ec Mon . Repafi .. XVII . 685 .
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MA ££ &i * M& ^ - > Umtarten C < mtr ® oerw at Cukutta .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/48/
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