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THE BRAHMUNICAL MAGAZINE.
doctrine of the Trinity and the idea of a Mangod ot
Godman to be unnatural and pregnant with absurdity,
and not a mere innocent speculation.
If British Missionaries are under an obligation to
preach Christianity to the natives of India, they ought
for the glory of their nation, holding so conspicuous
a place among the people of the East, and also for the
sake of their own characters as a Literary Body, to
confine their instructions to the practical parts of
Christianity, keeping entirely out of view the doctrino
of the Trinity and the idea of a two or three fold nature-
of God and Man, or God, Man and Angel, which arer
to say the least, very much calculated to lower the
reputation of Britons both as a learned and as a religious-
people,
It is characteristic of protestant writers to expose to
redicule any other system of religion which they disap-
prove, ^or instance, some of their eminent writers have
proceeded so far in attacking the doctrine of Transubs-
tantiation maintained by the Catholics, as to apply to the
bread which the Catholics consider as the real flesh of
Christ, the epithet Panarious Deus or "Breaden God" &c.
Now I only beg to be allowed on this occasion to
ask Protestant Gentlemen, who think themselves
justified in believing that a human body was, by
supernatural power, in a literal sense filled with all the
fulness of the Godhead, how they can object so
violently to the opinion entertained by the Catholics-
that a piece of bread by the same supurnatural power
is filled with divine spirit ? And if they can apply to
Catholics the term " Worshippers of a Breaden God,"
how can the professors of the Trinity disapprove of the
THE BRAHMUNICAL MAGAZINE.
doctrine of the Trinity and the idea of a Mangod ot
Godman to be unnatural and pregnant with absurdity,
and not a mere innocent speculation.
If British Missionaries are under an obligation to
preach Christianity to the natives of India, they ought
for the glory of their nation, holding so conspicuous
a place among the people of the East, and also for the
sake of their own characters as a Literary Body, to
confine their instructions to the practical parts of
Christianity, keeping entirely out of view the doctrino
of the Trinity and the idea of a two or three fold nature-
of God and Man, or God, Man and Angel, which arer
to say the least, very much calculated to lower the
reputation of Britons both as a learned and as a religious-
people,
It is characteristic of protestant writers to expose to
redicule any other system of religion which they disap-
prove, ^or instance, some of their eminent writers have
proceeded so far in attacking the doctrine of Transubs-
tantiation maintained by the Catholics, as to apply to the
bread which the Catholics consider as the real flesh of
Christ, the epithet Panarious Deus or "Breaden God" &c.
Now I only beg to be allowed on this occasion to
ask Protestant Gentlemen, who think themselves
justified in believing that a human body was, by
supernatural power, in a literal sense filled with all the
fulness of the Godhead, how they can object so
violently to the opinion entertained by the Catholics-
that a piece of bread by the same supurnatural power
is filled with divine spirit ? And if they can apply to
Catholics the term " Worshippers of a Breaden God,"
how can the professors of the Trinity disapprove of the