 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - Methodist Church - 1850 - 92 pages
...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, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious : and accordingly... | |
 | Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 84 pages
...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...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...is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And assuredly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point amongst people of discernment,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 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... | |
 | 1851 - 860 pages
...Butler, in the preface to his celebrated " Analogy," has the following remarks: "It is come, I know not s bear rule by their means ; as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1851 - 652 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Balderston Kidd - Messiah - 1852 - 694 pages
...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, that Christianity " is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, dis" covered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 470 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 as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary,... | |
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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... 
