A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The main object which he has in view-is, not to convince the Sceptic, or to answer the arguments of persons who avowedly oppose the fundamental doc trines of our Religion; but to point out the scanty and erroneous system of the bulk of those who bee long to the class of orthodox Christians, and to con trast their defective scheme with a representation of what the author capprehends to be real Christianity. Often has it filled him with deep concern, to observe in this description of persons, scarcely any distinct knowledge of the real nature and principles of the Religion which they profess. The subject is of in finite importance; let it not be driven out of our minds by the hustle or dissipation of life. This pre sent scene, with all its cares and all its gaieties, will soon be rolled away, and we must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. This awful considera tion will prompt the writer to express himself with grbater freedom than he should otherwise be dis pissed to use. And he trusts that this consideration.
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William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an English politician and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. At the age of 26 he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in a lifelong concern for reform. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for many years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire but did not abolish slavery itself. In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery. He died shortly after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 passed through the House of Commons, freeing all slaves in the British Empire. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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