A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. pdf epub fb2

by Wilberforce William

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A treatise by William Wilberforce, a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. The book deals with the principles of Christian living, aimed to help the reader to become a true Christian.

ISBN: B003YMNLWK

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...difficulty still behind, more formidable than all therest. The pride of man is loth to be humbled. Forced to abandon the pleaof innocence, and pressed so closely that he can no longer escape fromthe conclusion to which we would drive him, some more bold objectorfaces about and stands at bay, endeavouring to justify what he cannotdeny, "Whatever I am, " he contends, "I am what my Creator made me. Iinherited a nature, you yourself confess, depraved, and prone to evil:how then can I withstand the temptations to sin by which I am environed?If this plea cannot establish my innocence, it must excuse or at leastextenuate my guilt. Frail and weak as I am, a Being of infinite justiceand goodness will never try me by a rule, which however equitable in thecase of creatures of a higher nature, is altogether disproportionate tomine. "Let not my readers be alarmed! The writer is not going to enter into thediscussion of the grand question concerning the origin of moral evil, or to attempt at large to...