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Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Title: An estimate of the religion of the fashionable world. By one of the laity. ; [Four lines from Bacon]
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Print source: An estimate of the religion of the fashionable world. By one of the laity. ; [Four lines from Bacon]
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Philadelphia:: Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street., M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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Christian life.
Conduct of life.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N22075.0001.001
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AN ESTIMATE OF THE RELIGION OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAP. I. Decline of christianity shewn by a comparative view of the religion of the great, in preceding ages.
CHAP. II. Benevolence allowed to be the reigning virtue, but not exclusively the virtue of the present age. Benevolence not the whole of religion, though one of its most characteristic features. Whether benevolence proceed from a religious principle, will be more infallibly known by the general disposition of time, fortune, and the common habits of life, than from a few occa|sional acts of bounty.
CHAP. III. The neglect of religious education both a cause and consequence of the decline of christianity. No moral restraints—Religion only inciden|tally taught, not as a principle of action. A few of the causes which dispose the young to entertain low opinions of religion.
CHAP. IV. Other symptoms of the decline of christianity— No family religion—Corrupt or negligent ex|amples of superiors—The self-denying and evangelical virtues held in contempt—Neglect of encouraging and promoting religion among servants.
CHAP. V. The negligent conduct of christians, no real ob|jection against christianity.—The reason why its effects are not more manifest to worldly men, is, because believers do not lead chris|tian lives.—Professors differ but little in their practice from unbelievers.—Even real chris|tians are too diffident and timid, and afraid of acting up to their principles.—The absurdity of the charge commonly brought against serious people, that they are too strict.
CHAP VI. A stranger, from observing the fashionable mode of life, would not take this to be a christian country.—Lives of professing christians exa|mined by a comparison with the Gospel.— Christianity not made the rule of life, even by those who profess to receive it as an object of faith.—Temperizing divines contribute to low|er the credit of christianity.—Loose harangues on morals not calculated to reform the heart.
CHAP. VII. View of these who acknowledge christianity as a perfect system of morals, but deny its divine authority—Morality not the whole of reli|gion.
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