time under the instructions of the Missionaries at Serampore with a view to the ministry, and was subsequently employed by them, in the superintendence of one of their out-stations. Even then he had strong doubts respecting the truth of those doctrines which he had been taught, and em ployed to teach; and having since engaged in some secular business he has publicly professed his belief in the doctrines of Unitarain Christianity.

The ministers and mem. bers of the Christian Soci. ety to which he belonged have not shown any anxiety to recall him from the paths of error into which he has

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strayed; por, as far as have learned, have they followed him with any of those anathemas 8 and denunciations which ar are so usual in such casses. If we

praise them for the Cannot

My dear Sir,

zeal,

To the Rev. Dr.

You well know that I have been a member of the Church meeting in Loll Bazar, and you are also aware that for a considerable time past I have refrained from communion.

As it is satisfactory to every man to give reasons for his conduct in any important particular (and such

we cannot, at least in this instance, blame them for their intolerance. And sure. z. ly this is the most Christian as well as the most dignified course that can be pure, sued, Every man, and every member of a Church is responsible only to God for the opinions, which he holds, and if they are materially different from those held by the majority, he will naturally of his own apcord attach himself to those Christians with whom he : agrees. Forcible excom munication, which has on some occasions been praotised on account of a mere ; difference of belief without any ground for impeaching the moral conduct, is opposed to the example of the apostles, is an arrogant as-i sumption of the authority of Christ, and is utterly sub versive of the great princi ples of religious freedom and of Protestant Dissent.-Ed« C, Serampore.

I deem every point connees ted with a Christian church) and also to impress upon others the reasons for his conduct that they may know it to have no founda tion in whim, caprice, or in difference, I beg leave to ac quaint you that my motive for declining communion with the Church meeting in Loll Bazar of which I was

And in unison with his instractions was his own conduct. (John xi. 41) Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou bast heard me ;" and (John xvii. 1.)" Then Jesus lifted up bis eyes to heaven and said, Father the hour is come, glorify thy Son," &c."

Lest any should say that the Father alone is not God, but that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one God, to whom worship may be offered, I may here remark that in the very prayer in John xvii. 1. from which the above passage is quoted, and which as may be observed is addressed to the Father, Jesus says, "This is Eternal Life to know thee the only true God."

Next to the authority of Jesus in the doctrines and daties of Christianity is the anthority of his successors, the apostles, in the work of enlightening and converting mankind. On the subject therefore of the Scriptural object of worship, and whether Jesus be that object, we must also attend to their example and instractions, both of which as they tend to establish that the Father is the only object of worship, shew at the same time, that it is not offered consistently to Jesus.

1. This we may learn from their example in the

Acts of the apostles iv. 24. "And they lifted up their voice to God with one ac•' ́¡ cord and said, Lord, Thou art God, who bast made heaven and earth, who by the mouth of thy servant David hasti said, Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine! vain things? The kings of the earthstood up and therulers were gathered together a gainst the Lord and against his Christ. For of a truth againt thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed" &c.

Paul says Eph i. 13. “I cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto

you the Spirit and wisdom" &c.

Coloss: i. 3 "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus".

2. The same we learn fromtheir instructions. Rom. xv. 30. "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, that strive together in your pray ers to God for me."

Eph v. 20." Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

1. Pet ii. 5. "Ye as lively. stones are built up a spiri

taal house to offer up spiritual sacrifices” (no doubt prayer and praise)" acceptable to God by Jesus Christ'.

There are many other passages in which we are enjoined to pray to God, but as those who advocate the worship of Jesus bee lieve him to be God, I cannot with consistency bring them forward, until it shall be shewn that Jesus is enferior to and distinct from God.

Farther: Jesus is not the proper object of worship since all prayer is to be of fered in his name. If Jesus be God should wish to know in whose name we may approach to him, in like manuer as we may in his name pray to bis God and Father.❤

John xiv. 6" No man cometh to the Father but by me". 13. Whatsover ye shall ask in my name that will I do".. xvi. 23. Verily, Verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you. Hither to ye have asked nothing in my name; ask and ye shall receive."

The writer does not be. lieve that it is essential to the acceptance of prayer that it be put up in Jesus's name; he here only adduces the practice of the worshippers of Jesus @gainst themselves,

Heb. x. 19. “Having, there, fore, bre hren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, and hav ing an high priest over the. house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in fall assurance of faith". Col iii. 17. “Whatsover ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, and. the Father by him”,

1. Pet. ii, 5. Writing of church of Christ the apostle says, "Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices accepta ble to God by Jesus Christ".

The worshippers of Jesus are pot however without their reasons for the prac tice they adopt. I shall there fore consider the passages of Scripture they adduce in support of it, and hope to make it appear that they are inconclusive on the subject, and by no means of equal weight with the authorities above exhibited, being those of Jesus and his apostles both by example and pres cept, for the sole worship of the Father the only living and true God,

Heb. 1. 6. "Let all the angels of God worship him" i. e. the first begotten, Jesus, That the apostle does not intend here that spiritual or religious worship ought to be offered to Jesus appeara

to me from the following considerations.

1. As the design of the apostle in writing this part of bis Epistle was not to shew the propriety of worshipping Jesus, but that be is greater than angels or messengers, whether divine or human, he may have meant to assert that Jesus is so much greater than angels that they are enjoined to shew him reverence by external marks of obeisance or respect as further aps pears,

2. From the fact that the word worship signifies external homage or respect in the Old Testament from whence the passage in question is also quoted.

1. Chron. xxix 20. "They bowed their heads and wor shipped the Lord and the king". Danielii.4 6 "Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell apon his face and worshipped Daniel". Psalm XXLV. 11. "He (Solomon) is thy Lord and worship thou him". It has also this meaning in the new Testament Matt 18. 26" The servant fell down and worshipped his Lord". Rev. iii. 9 where Christ says to the Church at Sardis "I will make them come and worship thy feet''.

3d. Were religious worship meant by the apostle would not the second commandment be thereby in

fringed, for that commande ment prohibits the worship of the Deity under any form whatsoever, the human form of Jesus not excepted.

The worshippers of Jestis allege that many from a mongst his contemporaries "fell down and worshipped him" at which he did not express the smallest disapprobation but permitted it.

That this was not spiri tual or religious worship is evident,

1. From the doctrine of Jesus that God is a spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.

2. From the fact that pone of those who thus worshipped Jesus did so under the impression that he was God, How could they when their eyes told them that the person before them was man!

3. From the fact that bad this been religious worship Jesus would not have permitted it, it being contrary to his doctrine, which is that God is a spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth, and it being also in violation of the second commandment which in the injunction that no material image is to be bowed down to, includes likewise that Jehovah is not to be worshipped under any form, the human form of Jesus not excluded.