 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 pages
...said that the whole kingdom 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 for enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious : and accordingly they treat... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...of it, was very visible." Bishop Butler, in 1736, observes : — " It is come, I know not how, to he taken for granted, by many 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 ns... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1843 - 358 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...characteristic hut 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,... | |
 | Will Jones - Clergy - 1845 - 720 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the Preface to his "Analogy," whom 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; but that it is, now at length, discovered to... | |
 | 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...age, this were an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set 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... | |
 | T. Timpson - Great Britain - 1847 - 714 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the preface to his invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1849 - 602 pages
...1783. f 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,...discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they tre-:u it, as if, in the presen rnent; and nothing remain as it were, by way of repr world." Advertisement,... | |
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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. 
