 | George Balderston Kidd - Messiah - 1852 - 694 pages
...accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were an agreed point, among ah people of discernment; and nothing " remained, but to set...so long interrupted the pleasures of " the world." How much more hopeful is the aspect of the Christian came at present ! I add another remarkable testimony... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 444 pages
...accordvoL. ix. 32 ingly 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...so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.'" Originating soon after such an age as this, and throwing up so powerful and timely a bulwark against... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1853 - 418 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 DV way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleas.-ires of the world." In times of such... | |
 | George H. Harwood - Methodism - 1854 - 266 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." In 1738, Archbishop Seeker says, " Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too... | |
 | Christianity - 1854 - 544 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...' and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for having so long ' interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus ' much at least will... | |
 | 1854 - 544 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...up as a principal subject of mirth ' and ridicule, ns it were by way of reprisals for having so long ' interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 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...so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."* This was said in 1736, and to such a state of things no man contributed more than Henry St. John, Viscount... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 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...so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."* This was said in 1736, and to such a state of things no man contributed more than Henry St. John, Yiscount... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 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." In times of such universal profligacy and ' infidelity arose, in succession, Locke, Newton, and Butler;... | |
 | 1855 - 590 pages
...literary men generally) 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...and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisals, for having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." At tliis gloomy period Providence interposed,... | |
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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... 
