The Indian Pilgrim; Or the Progress of the Pilgrim Nazareenee, from the City of the Wrath of God to the City of Mount Zion
Sherwood
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 20, 2012)
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. 1821 Excerpt: ...all created things must have had a beginning, and that they could not have been the cause of their own existence, since that which has no being cannot act: reasoning therefore in this manner, we are led to a great first cause--without beginning or end, existing necessarily, and not by accident; and this being is God." " This Supreme Being," returned Shahsuovara, " is Brumhu." He then proceeded to repeat what is said of Brumhu in the books of the Hindoos, and to describe how he remains in a state of perfect repose during the revolution of endless ages, awaking, from time to time, for the work of creation. " My friend," replied Bartholomew, " you assert that Brumhu is the Supreme Being, while I and my brother believe that there is no God but the God of the Christians, even the Lord Jehovah: and we were led to this belief by observing that the attributes given to the God of the Christians in their sacred books are more suitable to our idea of a perfect Being than the qualities which you attribute to Brumhu." I heard then, that the pilgrim reasoned long with the idolaters upon the nature of God, and laid down these axioms, which the others could neither gainsay nor dispute:--" God is perfect, because every perfection possessed by created beings must be derived from some first cause: therefore all perfection necessarily centers in God, who is this great First Cause.. " Neither can the First Cause ever be deprived of any of its perfections; forasmuch as he that is eternal and self-existent cannot depend on any other being, nor can he be affected or influenced by any thing they can do. /'Moreover, every perfection of the Supreme Being must be infinite; while those of every created being must be finite, inasmuc...