The Freedom of Gospel Worship from Local Circumstances and National Peculiarities Asserted
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To establish purity of worship in the earth was an undertaking worthy of the Son of God. In the opinion of some, we believe, it had been a nobler enterprise of philanthropy to deal directly with man’s social state, to have rectified its inequalities, and provided for the secular interests of humanity, putting aside meanwhile the question of religion as of inferior importance—a world without God, or a God without worship, well according with their views. We suppose they would regulate heaven itself on the same principles and haply find fault with its blest inhabitants for making so much ado about devotion.