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      musical verses , than when delivered in the form of common conversation . " * ( Id . pp . 14 , 15 . ) The Letter-writer accuses Rammotiun Roy of a willingness to abandon the scripture of his religion j" this means , the answerer shews , only that

      he endeavours to make the scripture consistent with itself and intelligible . The Letter-writer urges that men " are not possessed of sufficient understanding" to serve God without visible representations ; his opponent refers

      him to the example of every Mussulman in Turkey and Arabia , from the highest to the lowest , of everv Protestant Christian , at least of Europe , and of many followers of Caheer and JSamtck , t who u do worship God without the assistance of consecrated

      objects . " The Letter-writer naturally appeals on behalf of idolatry to the Christian Trinity , but he himself is not aware of the strength of the case , and therefore speaks of Christ as being accounted ** a personification of the mercy and kindness of God . "

      Rammohurt Roy says , observing great caution on I his subject , u From the little knowledge I had acquired of the tenets of Christians and those of Antichristians , I thought there were only three prevailing opinions respecting the nature of Christ : viz . That he was

      considered hy some us the expounder of the laws of God , and the mediator between . God and man ; by many to l > e one of the three mysterious persons of the Godhead * whilst others , such as the Jews , say that he was a mere man But to consider Christ

      as a personification of the mercy of God is , if I mistake not , a new doctrine in Christian ity , the discussion of which has , however , do connexion with the present subject . I however must observe that this opinion , which the learned gentleman has

      formed of Christ being * a personification of the mercy of God , is similar to that entertained by Mussulmans , for a period of upwards of a thousand years , respecting-Mohummnd , whom they call Mercy of God npon all his creatures . "— Pp . 27 , 28 . ft am mob un Roy is said to be

      en-* A specimen of Rammohun Roy ' s Hindoo Unitarian Hymns , as translated by a Baptist missionary , may be seen in The Christian Reformer , Vol . IV , p . 45 . + Can any of our correspondent * inform M » who these are ?

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      gaged in the study of the Christian Scriptures , wilh a view especially to ascertain whether they teach the doctrine of the Trinity , * We anxiously expect the result . Should he become

      an Unitarian Christian , his influence on the religious state of India may be incalculable . His English Editor , we see , announces his determination of coming to England , and another writer quoted in our last Volume [ XIII . 800 ] explains the object of the meditated voyage to be " the acquisition of learning in one or both of

      our universities . " There are , we suspect , barriers at Oxford and Cambridge which this honest inquirer and pious Theist could not pass . But a visit to Great Britain might , nevertheless , increase his qualifications as the Reformer of one of the most populous of the Heathen nations .

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      Art . IT . —The Epistles of St . Paul to the Celossians , to the Thessalonians , to Timothy and to Titusyand the General Epistle of St . James ? a new Version from the Greek , and chiefly from the text of Griesbacli By Pliilalethes . London . Printed for Hunter . 12 mo . pp . 70 . 1819 .

      THIS unassuming volume will receive front us more attention than we bestow on many works of larger bulk . It claims the distinction not only by the superior importance and usefulness of the design , but by the general merits of the execution : and in the present Number our remarks will be confined to the author ' s title-page and preface .

      Every attempt towards " a aetv version from the Greek" of any . of the books of the New Covenant we hail with gratitude . This is an undertaking which " demands our first and most earnest regard , the studies and assistance , the , favour and

      encouragement , of all . " t I" lh > s field ifc is not probable that the labourers will be inconveniently numerous : we may rather apprehend that they will be extremely few in proportion to the

      * See Mr . BelshanTs introduction to W . Roberta ' s Letter to the Un itarian Society , Christian Reformer , VoL IV . p . 3 . \ Lovvth ' s Sermon at Durham , ( 3 d c < iitioiij ) p . 24 .

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      Review . A E SQ —new Version of the pistles of Paul . 6

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 569, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/45/