OF MR. WILBERFORCE'S TREATISE, ENTITLED "A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREVAILING RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS," ETC. IN LETTERS TO A LADY. By THOMAS BELSHAM. PAUL. Left your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Chrift. Christianity can never have its free courfe among men of improved understandings, and even among rational creatures in general, while grofs mifreprefentations of it are fubftituted in the place of the fimple and perfect Original. Archbishop NEWCOME. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. DAVIS, CHANCERY LANE, FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1800. LETTER I. Page MR. Wilberforce's Syftem ftated LETTER II. Remarks on Mr. Wilberforce's Syftem. View of rational Religion LETTER III. Obfervations upon the fuppofed inadequate Conceptions generally entertained of the Importance of Christianity. Comparison between the Respect fhewn to the Scriptures by popular Interpreters, and by rational Chriftians LETTER IV. Concerning the fuppofed Corruption of Human 17 18 LETTER VI. Objection to the Doctrine of the Corruption of 41 Strictness of practical Christianity. Rational Reli- |