A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.Wilberforce, William
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A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
Wilberforce, William
Christianity; Christianity -- Great Britain
_Infidelity_, common progress of it, 338-342.
--a disease of the heart more than of the understanding, 342.
_Innocent_ young women, term how misapplied, 310.
--young women, the title disproved, 315.
_Intellectual_ attainments, rated below moral by Christianity, 257-260.
--low degree of excellence within our reach, 258.
J.
_Jones_, Sir William, a champion for Christianity, 348.
K.
_Kenyon_, Lord Chief Justice, commendations of, 302.
L.
_Language_, common, concerning the importance of Christianity, 5.
--concerning human corruption, 15.
--concerning affections towards our Saviour, and Holy Spirit's
operations, 51, 52.
--concerning terms of acceptance with God, 85-87.
--concerning mode of relaxing the strictness of Christian precept,
132, 133.
--concerning human judicatures, 133.
--concerning amiable tempers and useful lives, 179.
--common to people desirous of repenting, 235.
_Learning_, votaries of, 127.
_Life_, Christian, illustrated under figure of a traveller, 217-219.
--Christian's, a life of faith, 137-140.
_Liturgy_, bad effects to be feared from its disuse, 297.
_Lives_, several mentioned, 336.
_Love_, true signs of it, 46, 47.
--of God, its essential characters, 110.
--of Christ, justly to be expected of us, 69, 70, 77, 78, 107, 108.
--means of exciting it, 99, 100.
--of God, defective in nominal Christians, 219, 220.
--of God, proofs of its being defective, 220-224.
--of fellow-creatures, nominal Christians defective in, 225.
--of fellow-creatures, true marks of, 226-229.
--of God, best enforced by Christianity's peculiarities, 242.
--Christians to cultivate this grace above all others, 324.
--its excellent effects in the true Christian, 325.
--of fellow-creatures best enforced by peculiar doctrines, 243, 244.
_Low_ standard of practice generally prevailing, 102, 103, 117-135.
_Lower_ classes, not unfit that true doctrine of acceptance should be
stated to them, 93, 94.
M.
_McLaurin_, his essays and sermons referred to, 83, 97.
_Maurice_, Mr. a defender of Christianity, 348.
_Maxims_, which prove human corruption, 21.
_Medium_, religious, almost lost, 130.
_Milton_, quoted, 43.
_Moral_, attainments rated above intellectual, by Christianity, 257.
--attainments, how much more we can excel in them than in
intellectual ones, 259.
_Moravians_, commendation of, 56.
N.
_Natural_ condition of man without Christianity, 31-33.
_Nature_, essential, of true practical Christianity, 129.
_Necessity_, excuse on the plea of, stated, and answered, 36-42.
--opponent on the ground of, how best opposed, 37, 38.
_Nominal_ and real Christian, distinction between them most important,
306.
_Novels_, prove how peculiarities of Christianity have fallen into
neglect, 277, 278.
O.
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