 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 84 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... | |
 | 1851 - 860 pages
...society at large. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his celebrated " Analogy," has the following remarks: falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1851 - 652 pages
...work, the Analogy, as showing to what a deplorably low state religion had fallen, he says: "It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a prineipal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Balderston Kidd - Messiah - 1852 - 694 pages
...gave him excellent opportunities of observation : and his testimony is as follows. " It is come, 1 "know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,...subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, dis" covered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 444 pages
...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. So 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 accordvoL. ix. 32 ingly... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 610 pages
...Analogy to prop the tottering faith which he said, in his preface, had come to be considered no longer a subject of inquiry, " but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ;" and Warburton wrote his " Divine Legation." Churchmen were found among the master-minds of the English... | |
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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 were... 
