The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Being the substance of... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"THERE are Pretenders unto Godliness, whose Religion does chiefly consist in being of this or the other particular Party of men making a Profession of Christianity. If that is all their Godliness, supposing them to fall in with those that have most of Truth in their more peculiar Perswasions, they have only the Form without the Power. In our Nation, which has the Name of Protestant and Reformed, some are of the Episcopal, others for the Presbyterian, others for the Congregational, others for the Antipaedobaptists Form. These differ not in the Fundamental Articles of Faith; and from thence it is, that there are amongst them, all, some, with whom Godliness in the Truth and Power is to be found: and yet some under all these Denominations, who have only the Form. That the Churches in New-England which in their Primitive Constitution consisted of the Good Old Puritan Nonconformists, were famous for Religion in the Purity and..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.