 | Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...That profaneness and impiety are grown bold and open.' " ' " Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : ' 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... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - Nicene Creed - 1846 - 156 pages
...least among the higher classes. Bishop Butler says of the state of things in his own time, " it is come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a matter of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 698 pages
...critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...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, by...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... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - Church attendance - 1849 - 1074 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1849 - 602 pages
...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, by...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 tre-:u... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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 Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On the contrary, thus much... | |
 | 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 Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary, thus much at... | |
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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... 
