 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1843 - 358 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1856 - 652 pages
...more than a hundred years ago, could write, in the preface to his Analogy, "It has 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...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 suhject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. * * * On the contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | India - 1861 - 448 pages
...Christianity, through the wide realms of Christendom. 'It ' has come/ wrote Bishop Butler in 1736, '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... | |
 | Will Jones - Clergy - 1845 - 720 pages
...none will suspect of exaggerating the fact. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry;...discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat ifc as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing... | |
 | Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 698 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
