Transcribed from the 1814 Flanders and Co. Many thanks to Kensington and Chelsea Local Studies for finding this in their archives, and allowing it to be transcribed. [Picture: Cover of pamphlet] A Religious Tract, RECOMMENDING A CHRISTIAN’S DUTY MOST RESPECTFULLY, To the Parishioners OF ORTON ON THE HILL & TWYCROSS, IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER. * * * * * BY THE REV. JOSEPH PHILLIMORE, VICAR OF ORTON ON THE HILL. * * * * * * * * * * _ATHERSTONE_: PRINTED BY FLANDERS AND CO. 1814. Religious Tract, &c. NOTHING can be of more moment to you, than living virtuously on earth, as the salvation of your souls in future is one of the objects nearest my heart. May you practise this friendly admonition contained herein, being assured I wish no harm or evil to any part of the human race, but for the love of my Redeemer, and the certain hopes of mankind zealous in faith and good works being rewarded with perpetual bliss, which the wicked and the negligent in pure religion will not inherit, unless they be reclaimed, and walk in newness of life, like the good and faithful which will produce repentance, and forgiveness from past sins, is the only object of my addressing this small tract of religion for your future private and public conduct. It is almost ten years since my late most invaluable friend, John Randolph, late bishop of London, Bangor, and Oxford, in the year 1804, conferred on me an everlasting monument of friendship (which had existed unshaken more than thirty years), in presenting me to the living of Orton on the Hill; and with tributes of gratitude I daily looked upon it my bounden duty to have prayed for him during his life, and for the benefit of his surviving widow and family, for their present and future happiness; knowing you cannot be displeased at my imitating such a great example of Christianity, to invite you to pursue the blessed steps of a merciful Redeemer, who came into the world to save miserable lost sinners.