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description of the Editor , as declaring three Beings equally omniscient , omnipotent , and possessed of infinite mercy . I , however , be # to ask , whether the omnipotence , omniscience , and infinite mercy of one person is sufficient or noj
to arrange the universal system and preserve its harmony ? If so , an admission of the omnipotence and omniscience of the second and the third is superfluous and absurd ; but if not sufficient , why should we stop £ t the number three , and not carry on the numeration until the
number of omnipotent beings becomes at least equal to that of the heavenly bodies , ascribing to each the management of every globe ? From the skill which Europeans generally display in conducting political affairs and effecting mechanical inventions , foreigners very often conclude
that their religious doctrines would be equally reasonable ; but as soon as any one of them is made acquainted with such doctrines as are professed by the Editor and by a great number of his countrymen , he will firmly believe that religious trutb has no , connexion with political success . "—P . 37 .
Shivu-Prusad Surma maintains to the last his consciousness of superiority . Were his a proselyting religion , we might expect him to take the lead in forming a Hindoo Missionary
Society for the conversion of the benighted Christians ( as the orthodox Hindoos , no doubt , call us ) ; and it is a curious question , how the Hindoo Missionaries would be received in
England ? Should we hear them with the same temperate feelings with which the Hindoos in general listen to English Missionaries in their own country ? Or should we cry blasphemy , call in the constable , and consign the " miscreants" * to the hopeful instruction of a gaoler ?
The Brahmin concludes with , taking notice of a passage of the Missionaries relating to the intellectual and moral state of the Hindoos , and with reading a lecture to Englishmen and
Missionaries on spiritual pride and intolerance . We fear that they who have refused to learn the lessons of humi ~ lity and charity from their own acknowledged Divine Teacher , will not submit to receive them from a
Heathen " . The Editor expresses his joy at * perceiving that the natives have begun * Works of Bishop Burgess , passim .
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to grouse themselves . from that state of morbid apathy and Insensibility , which is a certain symptom af moral death and of universal corruption of manners / &c . I cannot ^ help feeling compassion for his total want of knowledge of the literary employment and domestic conduct of the
native community at large , notwithstanding his long residence in India . During onLy a few years past , hundreds of works on different subjects , such as theology , law , logic , grammar and astronomy , have been written by the natives of Bengal alone . I do not \ yonder that they have
not reached the knowledge of the Editor , who , in common with almost all his colleagues , has shut his eyes against any thing that might do the smallest credit to the natives . As to the * moral death / ascribed to them by the Editor , I might easily draw a comparison between the
domestic conduct of the natives and that of the inhabitants of Europe , to shew where the grossest deficiency lies ; but as such a dispute is entirely foreign to the present controversy , I restrain myself from so disagreeable a subject , under the apprehension that it might excite general displeasure .
" As to the abusive terms made use of by the Editor , such as , * Father of lies alone , to whom it ( FHudooisra ) evidently owes its origin ; ' ' impure fables of his false gods ; 4 pretended gods of Hindoos / &c . ; common decency prevents me from making use of similar terms in return . We must recollect-that we have engaged in solemn religious controversy , and not in retorting abuse against each other , "—Pp . 40 , 41 .
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Review *— -Burns * s Law af Christ Vindicated . > . £ 59
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Art . III . — The Law of Christ Vindicated from certain False Glosses , of the Rev . Edward Irving' , contained in his Argument on Judgment to come . By William Burns . 8 vo . pp . 54 . Hunter . 1824
-WHATEVER may be thought of Mr . Irving as a preacher or reasoner , his unrivalled popularity confers importance upon his discourses , and makes it desirable that they who think him in the wrong on any capital points should point out his errors . Mr . Burns is persuaded iC
that he misrepresents the law of Christ , " and with , fearlessness , but without ill temper , points out his " false glosses . " He begins with exposing the folly of that reverence of " the olden time , " ( this sickly phrase is not ours ; it is borrowed by this writer from Mr . Irving , who borrowed
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/39/
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