Christ commands holiness out of perfect love, that is, Christian religion; and adds to this no other ceremony or symbol than a pure life and active beneficence; which (says St.James) are the 'true cult'.

[2] Ib.p.

86.
There is no one whose writings are better calculated to do good, (than those of Paley) by inculcating the essential duties of common life, and the sound truths of practical Christianity.
Indeed! Paley's whole system is reducible to this one precept:--"Obey God, and benefit your neighbour, because you love yourself above all." Christ has himself comprised his system in--"Love your neighbour as yourself, and God above all." These "sound truths of practical Christianity" consist in a total subversion, not only of Christianity, but of all morality;--the very words virtue and vice being but lazy synonymes of prudence and miscalculation,--and which ought to be expunged from our vocabularies, together with Abraxas and Abracadabra, as charms abused by superstitious or mystic enthusiasts.
Ib.p.

94.
Eventually the whole direction of the popular mind, in the affairs of religion, will be gained into the hands of a set of ignorant fanatics of such low origin and vulgar habits as can only serve to degrade religion in the eyes of those to whom its influence is most wanted.
Will such persons venerate or respect it in the hands of a sect composed in the far greater part of bigotted, coarse, illiterate, and low-bred enthusiasts?
Men who have abandoned their lawful callings, in which by industry they might have been useful members of society, to take upon themselves concerns the most sacred, with which nothing but their vanity and their ignorance could have excited them to meddle.
It is not the buffoonery of the reverend joker of the Edinburgh Review; not the convulsed grin of mortification which, sprawling prostrate in the dirt from "the whiff and wind" of the masterly disquisition in the Quarterly Review, the itinerant preacher would pass oft' for the broad grin of triumph; no, nor even the over-valued distinction of miracles, -- which will prevent him from seeing and shewing the equal applicability of all this to the Apostles and primitive Christians.

We know that Trajan, Pliny, Tacitus, the Antonines, Celsus, Lucian and the like,--much more the ten thousand philosophers and joke-smiths of Rome,--did both feel and apply all this to the Galilean Sect; and yet--'Vicisti, O Galilaee'! Ib.p.