A vindication of the religious opinions of the higher classes in this country: in letters to W. Wilberforce upon his Practical view of the prevailing religious system of the same. By one of the arraigned [signing himself Objector]. |
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Side 2
... sect of any religion is large enough to comprise a national Church , the actual general practice of that body of people , must , in the nature of things , be very defective , when con- trasted with the strict literal precepts of the re ...
... sect of any religion is large enough to comprise a national Church , the actual general practice of that body of people , must , in the nature of things , be very defective , when con- trasted with the strict literal precepts of the re ...
Side 3
... sects of their followers . you , Sir , have not scrupled to collect and enume- rate every possible crime and imperfection that can be rife among any body of Christians , in disobe- dience alike to the tenets of every sect but one that ...
... sects of their followers . you , Sir , have not scrupled to collect and enume- rate every possible crime and imperfection that can be rife among any body of Christians , in disobe- dience alike to the tenets of every sect but one that ...
Side 9
... sect of Christians whatsoever , nor ever were . They are those things wherein we fail in acting up to our system . They are the things in which every body of Christians that exist , or ever have existed , have more or less failed in ...
... sect of Christians whatsoever , nor ever were . They are those things wherein we fail in acting up to our system . They are the things in which every body of Christians that exist , or ever have existed , have more or less failed in ...
Side 10
... sect , for whom you assume a far nearer approach to this desirable perfection , than what has been attained by any other body of Christians . in Could you prove that all who agree with your- self in peculiar opinions were of necessity ...
... sect , for whom you assume a far nearer approach to this desirable perfection , than what has been attained by any other body of Christians . in Could you prove that all who agree with your- self in peculiar opinions were of necessity ...
Side 11
... but with another equal body of men , under similar circum- stances , but which body is not proved to exist , and I fear , does exist but in your imagination . Indi- viduals of your sect may certainly be found , who INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 11.
... but with another equal body of men , under similar circum- stances , but which body is not proved to exist , and I fear , does exist but in your imagination . Indi- viduals of your sect may certainly be found , who INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 11.
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