| Abel Stevens, George Peck - Methodists - 1847 - 368 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,... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
| Author of Your place in Church is empty - Church attendance - 1849 - 1074 pages
...state into which we are unhappily fallen." And about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 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,... | |
| English literature - 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,... | |
| Pastoral theology - 1849 - 380 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,... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 pages
...However, the proper force of the following treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
| Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - Methodist Church - 1850 - 92 pages
...the whole kingdom of England was rapidly verging to infidelity. ' It has come,' says Bishop Butler, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons,...agreed point among ALL PEOPLE OF DISCERNMENT, and that nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject for mirth and ridicule by way of reprisals... | |
| 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 - English essays - 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... | |
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