 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gillies - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 728 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,...as if in the present age this were an agreed point among1 all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1838 - 1574 pages
...that the whole kingdom of England was tending fast to infidelity. "It us come," says bishop Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not •o much as a subject of Inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and accordingly... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Itinerancy (Church polity) - 1839 - 256 pages
...and important concerns of religion in a ludicrous and reproachful manner."* BISHOP BUTLER, 1736. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Methodism - 1839 - 190 pages
...danger, by doing it under specious colours and pretences of several kinds." * BISHOP BUTLER, I?36. " IT is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so muck as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be ^fictitious. And accordingly-,... | |
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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... 
