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ination of ^ hoii $ |§ icUc | U 5 urer , ^ aloip r ^ liness which is not hid from an ardent < M& by I ^ Mft language 4 tt w ^ ich II- is coiw ^^ ipr li ^ whom itis communicated
Jtifet ine not , however , be mistindeir stood as to the amount of the debt wl | u * h I bvye to Rammohim Roy $ > ii tins account * Nothing that > the wi 3-tefc in the Meting Chronicle has stated , nothing iliat I have admitted , can justify Mr . I . iir de ^ ribingf ncre
*' ¦ m the fli ^ cip le of Rpiamohw Roy . I acknowledge no ' 5 mere man ? &snxy master in religion , hut I glory in my discipleship to that heavenly Teacher w | iom Mr . I . charitably supposes it
is now iny business to " insult /* Rammohuh Roy did , indeed , , fir&t shaken my belief in : the Trinity , but after I faegair to doubt its truthyl said little to any one . I read and thought much in - private , as in the
vievv of my Omniscient Judge ; and it was only when , bjr a diligent and conscientious perusal of the Christian Scriptures , I became convinced that the Trinity was ntit a doctrine of revelation ,: and was opposed to those doctrines which all admit revelation does
teach > that I communicated my change of senthnents to him and others without fear and without reserve . Since then ^ wUilst I have enjoyed his cordial sympathy and received his . zealous aid in my endeavours to diffuse a knowledge of Unitarian Christianity ,
I have been , in succession , pitied , excommunicated , hated , and calumniated by Christian Missionaries ; although , one would think ,, that those who had themselves experienced doubts on the same subject , would have learned forbearance towards
others in similar circumstances . I say this advisedly , for I had the best means of knowing that at least two other Missionaries were vacillating at the same time with myself , between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy . These gentlemen have , in a manner , lam willing to hope , perfectly satisfactory
to themselves , got rid of all their qualms and scruples . The only circumstances which , to an impartial observer , might seem to cast a doubt upon this are , the spiritual pride * of which they appear lately to have acquired a large accession , and the ignorant vituperation which they bestow upon those who differ from them .
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¦ mm ?* - •; m ^^^^ m ^^ ^^^ m may h a ve learued the &entiment 3 from tli ^(| : »^ O ; r : 0 $ j ^ m I in ' i ^^ j ^^ E . ls so # &eo ^ dite tiai ^ it ^ iai ^ & * i > ? is ^* Mbt
for . h ^^^ e ^^ J ^^^^; ' ^^ :. . ^^^^^ say - ¦ iU » fc ^ . ; . u ^ y > iiaev ^ . I ^^^ pl * - tb |^ % lstt ^^' meats retired l- ^^ tc ^^^^^^ those , ; wh ^^^^^^ rf ^^ seiycsvxtJ ^ HS ^ j ^ tend : 1 ; o . ;; iasig || . ) tbat : ^ mhei »;^ : M ^ glandy may have learned these sentiments from tji& -: \ persa ^ m ^ - ,, wte > li ^ dft
themselves Unitariansf 0 £ fl ^ # pfm ^ I have only to tell him that he is mistaken , and that in th $ ^ lirae- .. ioj ^ y ^§ f investigations upon v ^ lph I % i $ ft | i ||| i in addition to the Scriptiwrias ^ r I t ^ E ^ red exclusively to the # ork £ < rf % E | ii |^ tarian divines . If the latter * tlietf it
follows that I was a Unitarian at the ^ time I left Englaiad . I dare him ? 4 ift > the proof of this . I dare him to di e ^ # by evidence , that I ever acted hyfrc ^ w critically in any matt 0 r > mudb : \ &s& that I continued a hypocrite in ' : ¦ % & $ *
gion during three' or four years of my life . Let Mr . I . either p ^ y sqtne ^ more attention to the usages of lan ^ guage , or have some hn ore regardi for > the characters of those whom , if fhe : > will notr admit ; them rtp ibej rfelloiv- / Christians , he , at least , ' caunot dei ^ r : to be fellow-creatures , and who , although they may happen in . his
estimation to be heretics ., are not quite so indifferent to their goo ( l name a » to permit it to be sacrificed either to a blunder in language or to an assertion without proof . 2 . The Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society , it appears , " thought it right to dismiss" me ** as a
Missionary . ^ They did spi but it was by a resolution , dated February 14 , 1822 ^ communicated to me in a letter fro pa Mr . Dyer , one of the Secretaries , in reply to the one addressed to thexti > which I have transcribed above , and
sent for publication , and which is dated Sept . 7 , 182 L In that letter I had virtually dismissed myself , by relinquishing the salary which 1 ha « l drawn since my arrival in India , and
which , as it amounted only ta 60 S . Ji , per month , could be received even by theia in no other light than as a link , and the only one , too , except that of principle , intended to keep up
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/39/
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