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any of the novel views of Christian doctrine that are here exhibited , but he will find much useful information concerning some peculiarities of scripture phraseology , and meet with many subjects of a nature too important not to engage his most serious attention . Convinced that discussion is
favourable to truth , and even necessary to its prevalence , we regret that these volumes did not appear in more auspicious times , when the pnblic mtud was more generally turned upon religious inquiries , and , when the learned author , in the full possession of those extraordinary talents , by which he
seems to have been distinguished , might have recommended them to the notice of the world by a greater degree of accuracy , than as a posthumous publication , they can now possess ; and have aided the investigation " which they challenge from every one who aspires to an acquaintance with the word of God /'
Though the latter wish cannot be realized , the former disadvantage may certainly be removed . Saved as we are at present , from " the noisy din of arms , " we have leisure to cultivate the arts of peace , and in particular , to
employ our rational faculties in studying the history of the dispensations of revealed religion . That your labours , Mr . Editor , may do something to check the influx of fanaticism , and to promote pure and undefiled religion , is the sincere wish of B . M .
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gleanings ; or , selections and reflections made in a course of g eneral reading . No . CCCXXXIV , " Two literary phenomena , of a singular nature , have very recently been exhibited in India . The first is a Hindu Deist , " Rammohnn Roy > a Bramin , has published a small work , in the
present year , at Calcutta , entitled * An Abridgment of the Vedant 9 or Resolution of all the Veds ; the most celebrated work of Braminical 'Theology , establishing the Unity of the Supreme
Being , mid that he alone is the Object of Worships It contains a collection of very remarkable texts from the Vedas , in which the principles of natural religion are delivered , not without dignity ; and which treat all
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worship to inferior beings , together with the observance of rites and seasons , and the distinctions of food , as the aids of an imperfect religion , which may be altogether disregarded by those who have attained to the knowledge and love of the true God . His contemporaries and his ancestors he considers as idolators , notwithstanding the excuse of an allegorical theology which some Europeans have made for them . This Bramin is made to complain , with feeling 9 in the English version , of the obloquy which he has incurred among bis countrymen by the purity of his faith . He alludes no where to any other system of religion ; and passes over , in absolute silence , the labours , and , indeed , the existence of the missionaries .
The second is a work about to be published at Bombay , by Mnlla Feronzy a Parsee priest , and probably the first of that sect , for many ages , who has made any proficiency in the general literature of the East . He proposes to publish the * Dusateer , * with an English translation and notes , a singular and somewhat mysterious book , of ' which he tells us that no
copy is known to exist but that in his possession . ' It is said to be Hie source from whence theDabistan ( Edinburgh Rev . XXVI . 288 ) is borrowed . The original is said to be in a language or dialect of which there is no other specimen ; and so ancient , that an old
Persian version which accompanies it , professes to have been made before the conquest of Persia by the Mahometans . It is quoted by several writers , in comparatively modern times ; and the Persian version is often cited , as an authority , by Persian dictionaries of the seventeenth
century . Its pretensions , therefore , as a mere monument of language , are very high , and cannot fail to attract the curiosity of all Orientalists to this reappearance of the followers of Zoroaster in the literary world . *'
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No . CCCXXXV . Population of Palestine . From the testimonies of Sacred Scripture and the writings of antiquity , we learn , that great multitudes were provided with subsistence in places which now support a very small population . Two millions and
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£ 12 Gleanings .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/40/
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