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with the speech which you as a true Christian , delivered on the trial of one of the deluded shopmen of the ijnpious Carlile ; a speech which , although it bears so much similarity in point of style with the language
of Dr . Tytler , yet far surpasses his writing in soundness of reasoning and sublimity of illustration . My despair of seeing a holy alliance formed among all orthodox Hindoos and Christians in defence of our sacred
cause of Divine incarnations , has consequently been changed into a sanguine hope of success . And I now look forward with confidence to the prospect of that " nest of serpents , " the Unitarians , being exposed to disgrace , ( as they have already been by your eloquent address , ) and deprived
of the situations , either high or low , which they now unworthily hold , and if possible banished from their homes and country , and prevented from enjoying the light of that heaven which they have insulted by denying the manifestation of God in the flesh , which both Hindoos and Christians believe !
You who are distinguished as much by your legal knowledge as by your piety , may prove the legality and expediency of the alliance I recommended , to the Lord High Chancellor of England , who , from his known piety and zeal , will doubtless have sufficient
influence with the most pious and enlightened part of the Bishops to induce them to co-operate with us . I , in like manner , will exert myself to procure the co-operation of all the worshipers of the blessed Munoo ^ all the believers in the Divine Ram , and all
the followers of the holy Saviour Dutiatru , and many other sacred manifestations of God in the fleshy which , together with the worshipers of the incarnation of the blessed Jesus whom you adore , will form a host of believers in divine incarnations , before
which the Unitarian heretics must flee like chaff before the wind . You will not , I hope , neglect this grand opportunity of uniting in defence of the common basis of our faith from any notions similar to those
of Dr . Tytler , who , from the very confined theological education he has had the misfortune to receive , felt a difficulty in believing in more than one Divine incarnation ; but you who display such superior judgment , must at
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once . perceive that , as God condescended to assume the form of a man , and even of a dove in Judea , there is every probability that the Deity should also deign to appear in the human shape for similar reasons in India . Besides , both the Hindoo and
Christian Scriptures prove that God has never chosen to manifest himself in the flesh in any other quarter of the world but in Asia ; doubtless because its inhabitants have been always his most favourite and peculiar people .
This is an argument which even the most daring Unitarian heretic cannot refute ; how then can any man , who is blessed with a single grain of faith in Divine incarnations , doubt that the Deity has often manifested himself ia Indian flesh ? In the same manner
as no good Hindoo can for a moment doubt , that God in another part of Asia may have assumed the form of an Israelite , under which lie has since been worshiped by Christians . Let not the great distance between us depress our minds ; but let us each in his respective sphere zealously
maintain the holy cause of Divine incarnations , and co-operate for the extirpation of the heretical notion of unity in the Deity . A reply , expressing your concurrence in this proposal , will be received with extreme gratification , by your Most obedient and humble Servant , and Friend in Faith , RAM DOSS . Calcutta , Nov . 17 , 1824 .
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Sir , PERMIT me to call the attention of your readers to a subject , which I consider important to the cause , not only of speculative , but of moral and practical truth . I mean the gradually increasing custom of sending " Dissenting youths to an University where they can enjoy no honours till
they have subscribed themselves * ' bon& fide Members of the Established Church . " That such a test is illiberal and arbitrary , will readily be granted ; but may it therefore be taken ? The illustrious Ralpho has said ,
" He His who makes the oath that breaks it , Not he that for convenience takes it . " But as this was ( even in the days of
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274 On sending Dissenting Youths to the Universities .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/18/
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