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

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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readings, to fettle thefe curious aberrations of {lumbering tranfcribers, and to point out the fources of their miftake : / ♦ Non noftrum inter vos tantas componere lites. Again: — “ So, after Jefus had wafhed their feet, and had taken his garments, and “ was fet down again, he faid unto them: “ Know ye, what I have done unto you ? Ye ‘ ‘ call me Matter and Lord : and ye fay well; “ for fo I am. If I then, your Lord and 64 Matter, have wattied your feet, ye alfo *c ought to wafh one another’s feet. For I “ have given you an example, that ye fhould tc do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, “ I fay unto you. The fervant is not greater “ than his lord; neither he, that is lent, “ greater than he that fent him. If ye know “ thefe things, happy are ye, if ye do them (John, xiii. 12— 18.) p But I fhall not multiply quotations in fap- port of a propofition, loudly proclaimed and indubitably demonttrated, by every a&ion of our Saviour's life, and every precept of his tongue. I conclude then, that the pure fpirit of the

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