Recall that he told his physician Vine Utley (March 21, 1819) that he seldom went to bed without first having read something morally uplifting. He expressed in several letters his opinion that Jesus Christ was a paragon of moral perfection, insofar as any human being could approximate moral perfection, and that motivated him to make his own version of the Bible by cutting out the influence of supernature in Christ's words and deeds.
