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^¦¦• W CSi ^^ SBbVMi ^ Et Art . IT . East-India Unitarian Tracts . ( Continued from p . 236 . ) fTHHE full title of the pamphlet , 3 l . No . IX . in our series , is as follows : "A Vindication of the Incarnation of the Deity , as the common Basis of Hindooism and Christianity ,
against the Schismatic Attacks of R . Tytler , Esq . M . D ., Surgeon in the Hon . East-India Company ' s Service , Author of an Inquiry into the Origin and Principles of Budaic Sabism , and of ' The Substance of a Discourse in
Vindication of the Divinity of our Lord / ai ] d also , Member of the Asiatic Society . By Ram Doss . Calcutta , printed by S . Smith and Co . liurkaru Press , 1823 . " We have called this ( p . 236 , ) a bonk fide attempt by a Hindoo to shew that Hindooism and Trinitarian
Christianity are kindred religions . On a second and more careful perusal of the tract , we have almost been inclined to suspect that it is the work of a disguised polemic j but still there are passages that would seern to come from the pen of a Brahmin ; and perhaps the real state of the case is , that the Vindication is the work of a
Reformed , if not a Christian Hiiidoo . Dr . Tytler himself allows ( p . 9 ) , that Ram Doss may be " a real person . " Ram Doss , be he flesh and blood or a mere creature of the imagination , dedicates his Vindication " to all believers in the Incarnation of the Deity , " assuring them that his object is " that all believers in the manifestation of God in the flesh , whether Hindoo or Christian , might unite in
support of our common cause , and cordially co-operate in our endeavours to check the alarming' growth of the Unitarian heresy . " In an Introduction the writer quotes a passage from a letter of Dr . Tytler ' s , published in the Bengal liurkaru of the 30 th of May 1823 , which he
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says is " directed against Rarnmohuu Roy , a person who * as is well known , 5 s strongly reprobated by the zealous both among Hindoos and Christians , for his daring impiety In rejecting the doctrine of Divine Incarnations .- " But lie complains that whilst the Doctor
censures " this stubborn heretic , " ( this is a suspicious phrase , but the Missionaries may have taught the Brahmins the language of Christian off&ncej he introduces unwarrantabl y contemptuous illusions to the Hindoo Deities .
Dr . Tytler had , it appears , invited Rammohun Roy to a " religious conference . " The learned Brahmin declined the meeting , unless Dr . Tytler could procure the signature of one of the missionaries to his creed , attesting
it to be Trinitarian Christianity ; telling the challenger , ** whether you be a faithful believer in the Divinity of the Holy Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST , or of any other mortal man ; or whether a Hindu declares himself a
faithful believer in the divinity of his Holy Thakoor Trata RAM , or MUNOO—I feel equally indifferent about these notions . " Upon this the * Doctor complains grievously that his " belief in the divinity of the Holy Saviour is on a par with a Hindu ' s belief in his Thakoor ! " The complaint gave occasion to the first letter of Ram Doss
to the Doctor , which being refused by the Editor of the Hurkaru , was gent to Dr . Tytler privately . Ram Doss says that no . Hindoo would be offended at being told by a believer in " the invisible God , " that he ( the believer ) was " indifferent about the Hindoo ' s faith in the
divinity of his Holy Thakoor and Trata Ram or Munoo . " He expresses astonishment at the Doctor ' s being * angry at the suggestion of his own belief iu the divinity of Jesus Christ being similar to that of the Hindoo in his Thakoor , urging
you ought to know that our religious faith and yours are founded on the same sacred basis , viz , the manifestation of God in the fleshy without any restriction to a dark or fair complexion , large or
small stature , long or short hair . You cannot surely be ignorant that the Divine Ram was the reputed sou of Dusuruth , of the offspring of Bhuggeeruth , of the tribe of Hughoo : us Jesus was the reputed sou of Joseph , of the house of
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on an affectionate , weeping flock , and say , * Ye are our epistle , written in our hearts , known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ , ministered by us ; written , not with ink , but with the spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone , hut in fleshly tables of the heart . '" [ To be continued . ]
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296 Repiew ' . — 'East-India Unitarian Tracts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/40/
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