ΤΟ THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC, IN DEFENCE OF THE "PRECEPTS OF JESUS." BY RAMMOHUN ROY. CALCUTTA: PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, CIRCULAR ROAD. 1821. LONDON, REPRINTED: ADVERTISEMENT. THE contents of the following Treatise are included under these two propositions :—1st, That the Precepts of Jesus, which teach that love to God is manifested in beneficence towards our fellow-creatures, are a sufficient Guide to Peace and Happiness; and 2ndly, That that omnipresent God, who is the only proper object of religious veneration, is one and undivided in person. Though these doctrines, as I conceive them to be alike founded on reason and revelation, appear to me to be almost as obvious truths as any abstract axiom, yet they are opposed in fact by a very large body of writers and teachers. I must therefore leave them to be decided upon by those, who will be pleased to bestow their candid and liberal attention on the arguments I have used in the succeeding pages; and on their impartial judgment I confidently rely. Two points which the Editor wishes to establish, to wit, the Definition of the unity between God and Jesus • Jesus's disavowal of his own Deity..... The Jews charged Jesus only with calling himself the Son of God ..... 168 ib. |
