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Numerous passages of the Old and New Testament to the same effect , which might fill a volume , distinctly promise us that the forgiveness of God and the favour of his divine majesty may be obtained by sincere repentance , as required of sinners by the Redeemer . As to the second point , that is , How to be enabled to overcome our passions , and keep the Commandments of Godwe are not left unprovided for in that respect , as our gracious Saviour has promised every strength and power as necessary consequences of earnest prayer and hearty desire . Matt . vii . 7 * 11 : Luke xi . 9 . » —P . 12 .
4 . " The Reviewer imputes to the Compiler , error in exalting the value of the moral doctrines above that of the historical facts and dogmas contained in the New Testament . This imputation y I humbly maintain , can be of no weight or force against the authority of Jesus himself , Matt . xxv . 31 , &c . And , apparently to counteract , bv
anticipation , the erroneous idea that such conduct might he dispensed with , and reliance placed on a mere dogmatical knowledge of God or of the Saviour , the following declaration seems to have been uttered : Matt . vii . 21 : * Not every one that saith unto me , Lord I Lord ! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of mv Father who is
m heaven . ' Neither in this nor m any other part of the New Testament can we find a commandment similarly enjoining a knowledge of any of the mysteries or historical relations contained hi these books . " We are taught by revelation , as well as education , to ascribe to the Deity the
perfection of those attributes which are esteemed excellent amongst mankind . And , according to these ideas , it must surely appear more consistent with the justice of the sovereign Ruler , that he should admit to mercy those of his subjects who , acknowledging his authority , have endeavoured to obey his laws % or
ahewn contrition when they have fallen short of their duty and love ; than that he should select for favour those whose claims rest on having acquired particular ideas of his nature , and of the origin of His Son , and of what afflictions that Son may have suffered in behalf of his people . If the Reviewer and Editor will continue to resist both authority and . common
sense , I must be content to take leave of them with the following words : ( Luke xviii : ) « And he said unto him , If they hear not Moses and the Prophets , neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead / "—P . la .
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5 . " The Reviewer observes , with every mark of disapprobation , that the Compiler has intimated in the Introduction , that , the dogmatical and historical matters are rather calculated to do injury . "
After some remarks on the keen disputes and bitter persecutions which have arisen among Christians in regard to dogmas , our author says , " Besides , the Compiler , residing m the same spot where European Missionary geutlemen and others , for a period of
upwards of twenty years , have been , with a view to promote Christianity , distributing in vain amongst the natives , numberless copies of the complete Bible written in different languages , could not be altogether ignorant of the causes of their disappointment . He has seen with regret
that they have completely counteracted their own benevolent efforts , by introducing all the dogmas and mysteries taught in Christian churches , to people by no means prepared to receive them ; and that they have been so incautious and inconsiderate in their attempts to enlighten
the natives of India , as to address then * instructions to them in the same way as if they were reasoning with persons brought up in a Christian country , with those dogmatical notions imbibed from their infancy . The consequence has been * that the natives in general , instead of
benefiting by the perusal of the Bible > copies of which they always receive gratuitously , exchange them very often for blank paper 5 and generally use several of the dogmatical terms , in their native language , as a mark of slight , in an irreverent manntr ; the mention of which is
repugnant to my feelings . Sabat , an eminently learned , but grossly unprincipled Arab , whom our divines supposed that they had converted to Christianity , and whom they pf course instructed in all the dogmas and doctrines , wrote , a few years ago , a Treatise in Arabic against
those very dogmas , and printed himself and published several hundred copies of this work ; and another Moosulman of the name of En a' et Ahmud , a man of respectable family , who is still alive , speedily returned to Mohunacmudani&m from Christianity , pleading that he h ^ id not been able to reconcile to his
understanding , certain dogmas which were imparted to him , "—P . 19 . " About three years ago , the Compiler , oft his visit to an English gentleman ; , who is still residing in the vicinity of Calcutta ,
saw a great number of Christian jctyoiveJFts with a petition * which they intended to present to the htgke&t ecclesiastical authority , " ( J > r ; Middleton , we presuifcie J " stating that , their teachers , through false pro-
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Review . —Ram Mohun Roffy ahd Indian Unitarian Controversy . 4 ££
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/43/
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