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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... "
The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate - Page 111
1869
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Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield

John Gillies - Bookbinding - 1834 - 672 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....agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule ; as it were by way...
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Sacred Classics, Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity: Analogy of religion ...

Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 414 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,...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

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,...
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A History of the Church: From the Birth of Christ to the Present Time ...

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,...
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Literary and Theological Review, Volume 2

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...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 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,...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way...
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The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A.

Robert Philip - Evangelical Revival - 1838 - 678 pages
...statue of the age was chiselled by that moral Phidias, BUTLER, they seem to have furnished the model. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it -were by way...
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The whole works of Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 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...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of...
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The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A.

Robert Philip - Evangelical Revival - 1838 - 566 pages
...the age was chiselled by that moral Phidias, BUTLER, they seem to have furnished the model : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of...
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