Some Brief Remarks Upon Sundry Important Subjects: Necessary to Be Understood and Attended to by All Professing the Christian Religion; Principally Addressed to the People Called Quakers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Some Brief Remarks Upon Sundry Important Subjects: Necessary to Be Understood and Attended to by All Professing the Christian Religion; Principally Addressed to the People Called Quakers

When the fubtil adverfary finds men in this kind of fleep or ftupefaction, it is then his opportunity for lowing the tares amongft the wheat: by fuch means the field of the Chri Ptian church became in' procefs of time co vered, therewith. That which came nea to my heart, and molt earneftly engaged my' attention towards the prefent undertaking (not without ardent defires for the lafiing ad vantage of Chriftians of all denominations) was, that the defcendants of a people, who a little above a century ago were very mat velloufly brought out of and redeem'ed from, all lifelefs (hadows, and empty forms of reli gion, to enjoy and be grounded In the bleited power and life thereof, might be preferved truly fenfible of the way and means whereby our worthy predecefl'ors obtained a firm efta blithment In the truth, as it is'bhrifl Jefus for it is evident, where the means are neg leé'ted, the end cannot be attained.

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