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
Religion
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
_Practical_ hints, on importance of Christianity, 13.
--on human corruption, 35.
--on mode of dealing with a certain description of infidels, 37, 38.
--on the means of exciting our affections towards our Saviour,
99, 100.
--respecting love of estimation, 174-178.
--respecting amiable tempers and useful lives, 192.
--to naturally sweet tempered, 193.
--to naturally rough and austere, 194-199.
--to true Christian, when engaged in hurry of worldly affairs,
199-204.
--to persons desirous of repenting, 235.
--respecting uses of peculiar doctrines of Christianity, 240-251.
--for revival of Religion, 300-304.
--to various descriptions, 305-318.
--to such as, having been hitherto careless, wish to become true
Christians, 318-332.
--to some who profess their full assent to fundamental doctrines
of Christianity, 333-336.
--to Sceptics and Unitarians, 337-345.
--to half-unbelievers, 346-348.
--to true Christians, from state of times, 349-354.
--Christianity, chapter on, 100-251.
--prevailing low views of it, 102-104.
--Christianity, its real strictness, 105, 106.
--its true nature, 107-110.
--charged on all without exception in its full strictness, 111-115.
--mischiefs of neglect of peculiarities of Christianity, 232.
--distinction, fundamental, between systems of nominal and real
Christians, 231-234.
--precepts of Christianity, most excellent, 260.
--use of peculiar doctrines of Christianity, 238.
_Prevailing_, low views of practical Christianity, proofs of them, 104.
--inadequate sense of peculiar doctrines of Christians, 231, &c.
_Probation_, notion of, disproves prevailing system of Religion, 317.
_Proof_ of Christianity's divine origin, 260-262.
_Puritans_, many of their writings commended, 275.
R.
_Religion_, practical hints for its revival, 300-305.
-- the only true support in trouble and peril, 332.
_Repentance_, advice for such as are disposed to, 318-324.
_Reputation_, true Christian's conduct respecting it, 164-178.
-- true Christian preserves, without over-valuing it, 167-170.
_Richardson_, mentioned, 278.
_Robertson_, Dr. censured, 279.
_Rousseau_, school of, 204, 205.
S.
_Scepticism_, natural history of it, 338-340.
_Sceptics_ and Unitarians, advantage they have in attacking
Christianity, 344, 345.
_Scripture_ doctrine, importance of, to Christianity, 8-10.
-- doctrine, concerning human corruption, 14-27.
-- doctrine, concerning Christ and the Holy Spirit, 43, 44.
_Self-deception_, frequent sources of, 306-318.
-- another common kind, 333-335.
_Self-examination_, helps in, 306.
_Selfishness_ of common practical Religion, 121-127.
-- the disease of political societies, 288.
-- peculiarly counteracted by Christianity, 291, 292.
_Sensibility_, exquisite, how little truly valuable, and how different
from true practical benevolence, 204, 205.
_Sensualists_ class of, 123.
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