 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - Church attendance - 1849 - 1074 pages
...And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." And in 1 738, Archbishop Seeker says : — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1849 - 602 pages
...same time wo living in the Church of Kt age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernd, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule. sals. for its having so lung interrupted the pleasure of the ted May 1730. preftxed to the first edition... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 pages
...And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...were not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it was now at length discovered to be fictitious, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.' In the leading periodical of that day — ' The Edinburgh Hevicw'— religion, as found in the national... | |
 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - Methodist Church - 1850 - 92 pages
...reprisals for its having so long, as it were, interrupted the pleasures of the world. "J There is evciy reason to believe that the Methodists were the instruments of stemming this torrent."§ * Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn mhlith y Cymry, tu dal. 53. t Hanes Prydain Fawr, tu dal. 507, 568. 1 Preface... | |
 | 1851 - 860 pages
...And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." The very circumstance that such a work should be called for to prove the truth of Christianity shows... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 pages
...and accordingly they treat it, as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it...principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were oy way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the plea'sures of the world." In times of such... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 pages
...age, blished a school that favoured Calvinthis were an agreement among all people of discern men t, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way Mr. Whitfield. of reprisal for its having BO long interrupted the pleasures of the world.'* There is... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...fictitious. And assuredly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point amongst people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule." I will next take the highest authority the Church had — Archbishop Seeker, who, in 1738, writes thus:... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1851 - 652 pages
...And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a prineipal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted... | |
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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... 
