A letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the subject of his late publication [entitled "A practical view of the prevailing religious system"] / By Gilbert Wakefield.

  • Gilbert Wakefield
Date:
1797
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Credit: A letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the subject of his late publication [entitled "A practical view of the prevailing religious system"] / By Gilbert Wakefield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) ( 9 ) thefe godlike purpofes, as the foie means of perfonal happinefs, by fulfilling the will of his Father and our Father, of his God and our God, (John, xx. 17.) through adive benevo¬ lence to the workmanfhip of the Creator, was the grand rule of conduct to the Man of Nazareth ; the foie occupation of his thoughts, the unceafing employment of his time, the devoted purpofe of his life. Hear the divine declarations of this unequalled pre¬ ceptor of mankind on the point before us. My meat is to do the will of him that fent mey and to finijh his work: (John, iv. 34.) I was daily with you in the temple teaching: (Luke, xiv. 49.) To this end was 1 born> and Jor this caufe came 1 into the worlds that I Jhould bear witnefs unto the truth: (John, xviii. 37.) To him pojitive bene- Jicence, and politive beneficence alone, invi¬ gorated and incited by pure principles of addon, was the teft of merit, and the genuine charaderiftic of Chriftian fandity. Feelings# and vijions, and experiences, and inexplicable grace, unaccompanied by fervices to men, and unauthenticated by fuch fervices, is a vik jargon, unknown to the Saviour of mankind, C and
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