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gious and civil duties ; as Roman Catholics bestow the appellation of heretics or infidels on all classes of Protestants , and Protestants do not spare the title of idolaters to Roman Catholics ; Trinitarians deny the name of Christian to
Unitarians , while the latter retort by stigmatizing the worshipers of the Son of Man as Pagans , who adore a created and dependent Being . Very different conduct is inculcated in tlie precept of Jesus to John , when , complaining of one who performed cures in the name of Jesus , yet
refused to follow the apostles , he gave a rebuke , saying , * He that is not against us is on our part / Mark ix . 40 . The Compiler having obviously in view at least one object in common with the Reviewer and Editor , that of procuring respect for the precepts of Christ , might
have reasonably expected more charity from the professed teachers of his doctrines . The Compiler of the Precepts of Jesus will , however , I doubt not , give preference to the guidance of those Precepts , which justify no retaliation even upon enemies , to the hasty suggestions of human passions , and the example of the Editor of the Friend of India . "—
P . 6 . 2 . In answer to the remark of the Reviewer , that the supposition of the moral sayings being sufficient for salvation , independent of the dogmas , is radically false ; he says ,
" If , indeed , the Reviewer understands by the word moral , what relates to conduct only with reference to man , it cannot apply to those precepts of Jesus that teach the duty of man to God ; which , however , the Reviewer will find included in the collection of the Precepts
of Jesus , by the Compiler : but a slight attention to the scope of the Introduction might have convinced the Reviewer that the sense in which the word moral is there used , whether rightly or otherwise , -js quite general , and applies equally to our conduct in religious , as in civil matters . "—P . 6 .
" It is , however , too true to be denied , that the Compiler of those moral precepts separated them from some of the dogmas and other matters , chiefly under the supposition , that they alone were a sufficient guide to secure peace and happiness to mankind at large—a position that is
entirely founded on , and supported by , the express authorities of Jesus of Nazaretha denial of which would imply a total disavowal of Christianity . Some of those authorities , as found amongst these precepts , here follow : Matt . xxii . 37 z * J ^ sus said unto him , Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all
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thy soul , and with all thy mind . This is the fir 3 t and great Commandment . And the second is like unto it , Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . On these two commandments hang all the la w and the prophets / He also quotes Mark xii . 29 —34 ; Matt . vii . 12 ; Luke x . 25—28 . The
Saviour meant , of course , by the words law and prophets , all the commandments ordained by divine authority , and the religion revealed to the prophets , and observed by them ; as is evident from Jesus ' s declaring those commandments to aiFord perfect means of acquiring eternal life , and directing men to follow them
accordingly . Had any other doctrine been requisite to teach men the road to peace and happiness , Jesus could not have pronounced to the lawyer , This do , and thou shalt litre . It was the characteristic
of the office of Christ to teach men , that forms and ceremonies were useless tokens of respect for God , compared with the essential proof of obedience and love toward him , evinced by the practice of benevolence toward their
fellow-creatures . The Compiler , finding these commandments given as including all the revealed law , and the whole system of religion adopted by the prophets , and reestablished and fulfilled by Jesus himself , as the means to acquire peace and
happiness , was desirous of giving more full publicity in this country to them , and to the subsidiary moral doctrines that are introduced by the Saviour in detail . Placing , also , implicit confidence in the truth qf his sacred commandments , to the observance of which we are directed
by the same teacher , ( John xiv . 15 , * If ye love me , keep my commandment a /) the Compiler liever hesitated in declaring , that a belief in God , and a due regard to that law , * Do unto others as you would wish to be done by , ' render our existence agreeable to ourselves and profitable to
the rest of mankind . It may now be left to the public to judge , whether or not the charge of arrogance and presumption which the Reviewer has imputed to the Compiler , under the idea that he preferred his own judgment to that of the Saviour , be justly applicable to him . "—
P . 10 . 3 . la reply to the objection , that the Precepts of Jesus do not furnish information on two important points , as above stated , the Author extracts from the same compilation , ' * a few passages which will , he hopes , satisfy the respect ^ Reviewer on these points . Sec also the parable of the Prodigal Son , where the mercy of God is illustrated , by the example of ia gather pardoning the transgressions of his repenting sow .
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482 Review . — Mohun Roy , &n& Indian Unitarian Controversy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/42/
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