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 dels who say, God is Christ, the son of Mary ." Again, "The Christians say, Christ is the Son of God, may God resist them ." Christ, as to his Divine nature, existed as God from all eternity; as to his human nature which he assumed into union with the divine, he was man born into the world, and in his mediatorial character he sustained the part of a servant to the Father, in ushering and consummating in his own person, the last and finished dispensation to which all former revelation was only introductory.

According to the before-mentioned historian, the Hindoos believe that the second person in the Trinity was manifested in the flesh. The doctrine of atonement by the shedding of blood is likewise observable in their custom, when the people of Hindostan bring the goat or kid to the temple, and the priest sheds the blood of the innocent victim.