 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 pages
...1783. f Calamy 's Life and Times, vol. ii. p. 531. 1 [Bishop Butler, writing in the year 1736. says: "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they tre-:u it, as if, in the presen rnent; and nothing remain as it were, by way of repr world." Advertisement,... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...characteristic but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work: — ' It is come,' says he, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons ' that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but ' that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On ' the contrary,... | |
 | 1849 - 378 pages
...in the very extreme of decline. " It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 146 pages
...but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : • — " It is come," says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons...that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 612 pages
...characteristic but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — ' It is come,' says he, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons,...that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — " It is come,'' says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. ... . On the contrary,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 pages
...but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — " It is come,'1 says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On the contrary,... | |
 | Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 76 pages
...the whole kingdom of England was rapidly verging to infidelity. ' It has eome,' says Bishop Butler, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so mueh as a subjeet of inquiry, but that it is now at length diseovered to be fietitious : and aeeordingly... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...myself to the clergy." The next extract is from Bishop Butler, who wrote thus in the year 1736 :— " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And assuredly, they... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 pages
...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. 80 that in the language of Butler, " it had come to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat... | |
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It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this... 
