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

William Wilberforce

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ISBN 10: 1333165358 ISBN 13: 9781333165352

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted With Real Christianity

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, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire. In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Wilberforce was convinced of the importance of religion, morality and education. He championed causes and campaigns such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice, British missionary work in India, the creation of a free colony in Sierra Leone, the foundation of the Church Mission Society, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His underlying conservatism led him to support politically and socially repressive legislation, and resulted in criticism that he was ignoring injustices at home while campaigning for the enslaved abroad. In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery, and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire; Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend William Pitt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333165358
• ISBN 13: 9781333165352
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 324