 | Charles Gore - Faith - 1921 - 376 pages
...And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." ' This demand for reprisals describes the attitude of a vast number of people in our own age. Their... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Lockyer - Christian ethics - 1922 - 368 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 moral and religious condition of England, at that time, was indeed too bad to be adequately described.... | |
 | Albert Edward Baker - 1923 - 150 pages
...but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if . . . nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule. 1 Voltaire said that there was only just enough religion in England to distinguish Tories who had little... | |
 | Mahlon Ellsworth Olsen - Adventists - 1925 - 778 pages
...the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained hut to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." — " The Analogy of Religion." l>y Joseph Butler. Advertisement to first edition, 1736. Among the... | |
 | Theology - 1904 - 626 pages
...discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat it as if nothing remained but to set it up as a subject of mirth and ridicule as it were, by way of...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." This, after more than forty annual volumes of Boyle Lectures had been read by the English public. A... | |
 | Frank Knight Chaplin - Church and state - 1927 - 184 pages
...fictitious. "And accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were agreed among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." 3 Hence it might be necessary to give some weight to the contention that latitudinarianism contributed... | |
 | Frank Knight Chaplin - Church and state - 1927 - 188 pages
...fictitious. "And accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were agreed among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it...its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."3 Hence it might be necessary to give some weight to the contention that latitudinarianism contributed... | |
 | American periodicals - 1869 - 882 pages
...Christianity is not so much as a subject rf inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisal for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." The upper classes were avowedly... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1995 - 596 pages
...fictitious. 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...its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."5 These are strong words, but they are more than the professional complaints of clerics keeping... | |
 | William Law - Religion - 1978 - 548 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 England, the 18th century was the age of the 'Enlightenment, ' of'reason,' of common sense and easy... | |
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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... 
