Faith in the Holy Trinity, the Doctrine of the Gospel, and Sabellian Unitarianism Shewn to Be the God-Denying Apostacy (Volume 2 ); In a Connected S (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1818 Excerpt: ... markable traces are to be found of it; throughout, the Heathen world likewise, though sadly corrupted by the reveries of vain philosophy, which, along with the knowledge and worship of the one true God, associated the invention and"worship of " Gods many, and Lords, or Mediators many" Cor. viii. 5; 1 Tina. ji. 5; Rom. i. 25; 2 King #vii. 29--33. PAGAN TRINITIES. The Indian.--In the Isle of Elephanta, near Bombay, there is a cave and temple, of great extent, and of the remotest antiquity. It is reckoned, by the Hindus, to have been the work of the gods. The whole of the colossal statue, and of the spacious temple which contains it, is cut out of the solid rock of the mountain. It is one of the wonders of the world, and perhaps a grander effort of human labour and ingenuity than even the pyramids of Egypt. Like Mithra's mystic cave, among the primitive Persians, and the labyrinth of Egypt, which Herodotus admired still more than the pyramids, it probably was one of the earliest productions of the Magian religion, diffused so widely throughout the east and west. From causes now unknown, the Hindus have long ceased to worship at this temple, preferring the obscene and horrid abominations of Jugger naut, as practised at Orissa, and at Ishera, about fight miles from Calcutta. Dr. Buchanan, who has described both, in hi) Christian Researches in India, visited this cave and temple in the year 1808, and saw, in the colossal statue, consisting of one body with three faces, each of them about five feet in length, the oldest representation of the Trinity in Unity, perhaps, in the whole world. There are some other temples " consecrated to this species of Trinity," as Dr. Buchanan observes, such as Perpenal, at Travancore, where the learned Indians still worship the Tri...