 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 470 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... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 478 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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...the current opinions of the class of men to which they belonged. As Butler says, it had come, he knew not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity was not so much as a subject of inquiry, but had at length been discovered to be fictitious. Moreover,... | |
 | George H. Harwood - Methodism - 1854 - 266 pages
...offended, and he is, in a great measure, withdrawn and gone." In 1736, Bishop Butler says, " 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1854 - 544 pages
...as an appeal to men who will not acknowledge any other ground. He says in the advertisement, ' It is come, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, ' that Christianity is now not so much as a subject of inquiry ; ' but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious.... | |
 | 1854 - 544 pages
...appeal to men who will not acknowledge any other ground. He says in the advertisement, ' It is come, ' 1 know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, ' that Christianity is now not so much as a subject of inquiry ; ' but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious.... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 pages
...reason, philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. 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 inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...that in which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, is to consider whether in writing it he... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...that in which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, ia to consider whether in writing it he... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Mental illness - 1856 - 438 pages
...prefatory advertisement to that profound and powerful work he was constrained to write as follows : " 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 it... | |
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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... 
