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and the sfccerdotai , regal , and judicial offices were united in thcSr jter - sons . Again , " The immediate ministers of religion are of five descriptions . 1 st . The Sheika or ordinary preachers ift the Mdsques ; 2 d . Trie Khatibs , readers or deacons ; 3 d . The Imduns , who perfdrih the service rn the Mosque on ordinary days , and who consecrate the ceremonies 6 f circufri cision , marriage , and burial ; 4 th . The Muazeens or criers ( thkt is , wh 6 call the people to public worship ); 5 th . The Cayims , or common attendants of the Mosque . "
But it is not oiir intention to follow the writer through all his mistakes and misrepresentations . We carmtrt , however , help suggesting to hi to that it would have been as well if he had been more tender of the reputatioris which he has endeavoured to injure ; we mean as well for himself ; for we are assured , and Mr . Higjnns may also be assured , that the character of at least two of the persons ( Grotius and Lardner ) whom he has misrepresented , can suffer no detriment from any thing he can say . Both the direct and the indirect attacks whlcn Mr . Higgins has made on Christianity , are also unworthy a serious refutation . Were Mr . Higgins a powerful , or an original opponent , there would be a reason for weighing his speculations in the balance of right reason . As it is , they can do no narrti
to any one that is tolerably weH infortned . And others , perhaps , will hot be disposed to take Godfrey Higgins , Esq ., for their religious guide , when they call to mind his ardent affection for the Moslem faith , and the readiness with which we suppose a regard to consistency would inspire his bosom , to conform to the rites of Islamism , arid to pass by the way of cifctrmcisioii within the pale of that rt beautiful , p lain , intelligible , and unadorned system . With a moral taste sueh as tnese predilections shew that Mr . Higgins
possesses , it is no wonder that he finds the virtue of Muhammedan far superior to the virtue of Christian nations ; nor that he sees in the accounts of oriental travellers ( when all the world finds the contrary ) the evidences of the moral pre-emitience which he ascribes to the Mussulmans , nor—t > ro Deum Hominumque fidem—that he proves , of course beyond the possibility of refutation , that the morality taught in the New Testament by Jesus and
his apostles , admits not of comparison with that set forth by the " illustrious" " philosopher , " " the prophet" and the " hero" of Arabia .
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Thought * on an Iriterto&diate State . < 23 d
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For reasons which we can partly understand , and which in our utter ignorance of every thing relating to a future state which has not beeii directly revealed to us , we may presume are worth y of Infinite Wisdom , it has seemed good to our heavenly Father ^ in the gracious discoveries he has bcfcri pleased to make in the gospel of our expectations beyond the grave , to make us certainly acquainted only with the simple fact that there will be a resurrection of the dead . This fact we may be said to know , with as
much certainty as we can attach to any thitog which is not either intuitively discerned * or perceived b y our outward senses . Btot as t 6 the circumstances , the time or manner of tbid great event * we have no such precise information ; and though the curiosity of mankind , naturally efccited on such a subject , has suggested a variety of conjectures , and has utfged them to seek to
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THOUGHTS ON AN INTERMEDIATE STATE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/23/
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