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690 Amertean &dn * phetny Law .
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yood these . He charges Mr . Adam , by implication at least , with ' intuit ing JeaUs Christ ;* a tremfeadous ac * cusation ! If by any indiscretion &f language , thfc Calcutta Umtariaai Minister nave in any degTee laid himself open to this charge , none will more strongly disapprove of his conduct than the Unitarians of Enfflandj but
if there be no other foundation for the accusation of blasphemy ' , ( for such , in common estimation , it is , ) than that Mr . Adam now differs in opinion from your correspondent with regard to the pers 6 n of Christ— -and I suspect that there is no other—I must leave your readers to affix to Mr . lvimey ' s
language the epithet that belongs to it . In the climax of bis concluding * lamentation / your correspondent in the tone of infallibility denounces Mr . Adam as a traitor , a second Judas , the imitator of < the worst part of the worst man ' s conduct . ' But all this
tragical reproach means no more than that Mr . Adam was sent out to Bengal to teach a doctrine that he no longer Relieves , and therefore cannot honestly teach ; he was Bent out to teach , among other things , that Jesus Christ was the Almighty and Everlasting God , and upon inquiry he thinks that
the Scriptures do not thus represent the Prophet of Nazareth , who was born , and who died , but that they describe him as a man , ( not , as your correspondent dictates to the Unitarians , 4 a tnere n * an , ' but , in Apostolic
language , Acts ii . 22 , ) ' a man approved of < rod by miracles , wonders and signs which God did by him / And for tkfe does he deserve to be held up to public odium as a traitorous apostate and a blasphemer ? Let ine remind yaw correspondent of a controversial maxim
laid dawn by an authority which we both revere , * If a man strive for masteries , vet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully ' ** I earnestl y hope , that in nothing that I have said , shall I be thought to shew hostility to the Baptist , or any other Mission to the Heathen . The
character of the supporters of these institutions is beyond suspicion , and the general conduct of their Missionaries beyond all praise . Let them xmly preserve themselves from the spirit erf bigotry , and they will be , as they have'been , ornaments ta the Christian
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name , and tene&ctors to theitaman face *' - * . v . \ ' ; it . ; i s f- ' ^ r ' tiT , ¦ ¦ . ** T ' aife ; « tiv €% Your obedient Servant , " ROBERT ASPLAND . " ' . ¦ ' . * — - ^—
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( flapton , Sir , Nov . 1 * 1822 . AM obliged to your American cor-I respondent ( p . 685 ) for his early notice of the inquiry I made , racier the signature of Gamaliel . It is satisfactory to learn that such a disgraceful transaction as that repotted ( p . 224 ) did not occur in 1819 , nor at any other time , as I understand by Mr . Taylor ' s use of the term € t unprece
dented . " He must , however ^ allow me to add , that it is by no means " sufficient" to impeach t&e credibility of any writer ' s testimony , t © allege that he " steads on the records ** of a " Supreme Court as a libeller , ia consequence of the verdict of a . fury , and after" what the Court was pleased to
call " a fair and fail investigation . " In Great Britain , at least , it is notorious that under Hhe < xeorge $ * as well as under the Jameses or the Charleses , the author of " a false , scandalous and malicious libel /* according to the wordp legal " wisdom of our ancestors /* has been , not infrequently , in real life , a character of first-rate
integrity , of whose intimacy the disciples of truth and virtue might have beea justly proud . Yo * ir correspondent , I dare say , would deem it a higher honour to havfe been the friend of those convicted libellers , Thomas Fyshe
Palmer weA Gilbert Wahefiela \ amidst all tffe indignities to which they weve adjudged , than , weighing- " thp wageB Mfkh the work AfisigBed , ** to have associated , amidst all the glare of their emoluments and distinctions ; with
court-lawyers wm ® prevailed , by the aid of willing ? paries , to drive ^ ucii men from the society which tltey were so well fitted to | 4 elight and unjyrov ^ . And s ^ ju ki suck disinterested , indignant and incautious censors ot ** tviefcedness in high pMces" again appear ,
it ia too probawe tbat , like th ^ ir predecessors , they uould fall in the ^ onequal contest with that courtly progeny of a Star-chamber ' , the Information ex official or they might be destined to a meandr fute , worried into b ^ gary
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 690, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/34/
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