 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1834 - 388 pages
...However, the 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,...to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as b if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Religions - 1834 - 562 pages
...published in 1736. In this is the testimony of bishop Burnet. He sa}'s, ' It is come, I know not how, i for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a sub[uiry : but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ; and, accor:y treat it as if,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1835 - 740 pages
...churches, was such as was lamented by the learned Bishop Butler, in 1736, in the following terms : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly, they treat it as... | |
 | John Gillies - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 728 pages
...affecting description of this, by Bishop Butler, whom none will suspect of exaggerating the fact : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...as if in the present age this were an agreed point among1 all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1838 - 1574 pages
...that the whole kingdom of England was tending fast to infidelity. "It us come," says bishop Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not •o much as a subject of Inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and accordingly... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Methodism - 1839 - 190 pages
...danger, by doing it under specious colours and pretences of several kinds." * BISHOP BUTLER, I?36. " IT is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so muck as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be ^fictitious. And accordingly-,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1839 - 362 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 accordingly they treat... | |
 | John Hoppus - Christianity - 1839 - 634 pages
...subject of inquiry, having at length been discovered to be a fiction : so that it was treated as if this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to hold it up to ridicule, ' by way of taking reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 530 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be. taken for granted...is not. so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1 752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
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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. 
